Free Fire Welcomes Its First Crossover Of 2022 With Assassin’s Creed
Garena has announced a new crossover event that will bring content from Ubisoft’s award-winning video game series, Assassin’s Creed, into Free Fire. The crossover unites one of the most popular video game franchises and one of the world’s most popular mobile games. Assassin’s Creed is well loved by gaming communities globally, and this partnership builds on Free Fire’s strategy to deliver content that excites. Free Fire players...
Free Fire’s largest esports event returns to Singapore with the Free Fire World Series 2022 Sentosa
Free Fire’s most iconic offline tournament, the Free Fire World Series (FFWS), will be taking place in Malaysia’s neighbouring country – Sentosa, Singapore. Sentosa is located just off Singapore’s southern coast, and is home to exciting events, themed attractions, lush rainforests, and golden sandy beaches. FFWS 2022 Sentosa will take place in May this year, with the Play-ins taking place on 14 May and the Finals on 21 May. The...
How Serious is the ‘COVID’ Learning Gap and What Can We Do About It?
The pandemic has magnified many inequities within the society, including in education. In 2017, the data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics reported 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. More recently, the World Bank (2019) has estimated that about half of the children in low and lower-middle income countries cannot read a simple paragraph at age 10....
Chimeraland Launches Successfully
Chimeraland, the new and vast open-world fantasy game published by Level Infinite, has seen a favourable reception in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Player numbers have grown on both PC and Mobile (iOS/Android) platforms since the January 6 launch. Extra servers were brought online to cater to new players as the game’s popularity grows. Despite the limited five-country launch, Chimeraland is generating...
Sophos Premiers Sophos Switch Series to Strengthen and Simplify Connectivity at the Access Layer
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has unveiled the Sophos Switch Series, featuring a range of network access layer switches to connect, power and control device access within a Local Area Network (LAN). The new offering adds another component to Sophos’ secure access portfolio, which also includes Sophos Firewall and Sophos Wireless. “Sophos Switch seamlessly integrates with the Sophos adaptive cybersecurity...
Visa Pioneers Cloud-based Payment Acceptance
VISA announced a new platform, Visa Acceptance Cloud (VAC), set to revolutionize the way businesses accept payments from their customers. Following the success of the company’s popular “Tap to Phone” solution, VAC will let acquirers, payment service providers, point of sale (POS) manufacturers, and Internet of Things (IoT) players move payment processing software from being embedded in each hardware device to being universally...
Mastercard Appoints Safdar Khan Division President for Southeast Asia
Mastercard announced today that Safdar Khan has been named Division President for Southeast Asia. This appointment is an expansion of his former role as Division President, Southeast Asia Emerging Markets. A 15-year veteran of Mastercard, Khan’s previous role saw him building business momentum with an assertive distribution strategy and expanding revenue by growing the company’s Services offerings. He will now be responsible for...
Snatch That Crypto: Bluenoroff Threat Actor Drains Cryptocurrency Startups’ Accounts
Kaspersky experts have uncovered a series of attacks by advanced persistent threat (APT) actor BlueNoroff against small and medium-sized companies worldwide resulting in major cryptocurrency losses for the victims. The campaign, dubbed SnatchCrypto, is aimed at various companies that, by the nature of their work, deal with cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, DeFi, Blockchain, and the FinTech industry. In BlueNoroff’s most recent...
New Research Highlights The Benefits Of A ‘Multicore’ Approach For Southeast Asian Banks Seeking Rapid, Low Risk Digital Transformation
Southeast Asian banks view digital transformation as high risk, and while they understand the value of digital core banking, they are seeking a lower risk approach to digital transformation to extend the life of their legacy technology and mitigate potential damage. This was the key finding of new research from IDC Financial Insights, published today. The new IDC white paper, sponsored by Mambu, Leveraging Digital Core Banking...
VMware Strengthens Leadership to Advance Its Multi-Cloud Vision in Asia
VMware, Inc. has appointed Paul Simos as Vice-President and Managing Director for Southeast Asia and Korea and Sachin Shridhar as Leader for Strategic Pursuits Practice in the Asia Pacific and Japan. As more businesses in the region are rapidly adapting to new ways of working and embracing a multi-cloud strategy to supercharge their cloud journeys, it remains essential for businesses to leverage new technologies and solutions to...
