Digital Economy stories

Trade-tech firm LogChain is shifting its global headquarters from Singapore to Liverpool, betting on the UK’s emerging digital trade hub.

Data and AI firm Quantexa will move its global headquarters to The Delft on London’s South Bank when the new development completes in 2027.

SOUTHSTART 2026 will bring OpenAI, Canva, Derek Sivers and Peter Helliar to Adelaide for a three-day tech, climate and culture forum.

From swipes to sparks, low-latency data centres, clouds and interconnection hubs quietly power your Valentine’s match worldwide.

ESG teams up with GeN+1 to expand UK data centre apprenticeships amid growing skills shortages in AI-driven digital infrastructure.

Australian tech leaders shift AI from trials to daily operations, but warn a gap in skills and infrastructure risks stalling productivity gains.

Tech roles keep topping UK pay charts as AI skills drive a 9% rise in median salaries to GBP £48,595, outpacing wider wage growth.

QA becomes an official NVIDIA training partner and launches a 19‑month Level 6 AI Engineer apprenticeship to tackle UK AI skills gaps.

Banks are shifting from product sellers to trusted digital infrastructure, fusing AI, mobile, embedded finance, identity and digital currencies.

Visa survey finds most Asia Pacific shoppers use AI to browse, but many still distrust it with payment details at online checkout.

BT reshapes top team as Clive Selley moves to lead BT International and Katie Milligan is promoted to chief of Openreach from 2026.

Indosat’s FY 2025 profit climbs 12.2% to IDR5.5 trillion as AI lifts ARPU and a growing home broadband base underpins revenue gains.

Malaysia’s PayNet and Singapore’s NETS win mandate to build and run the Nexus cross-border instant payments hub, targeting go-live in 2027.

Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet eye USD $650 billion AI splurge for 2026, stirring investor unease over margins and cloud growth.

Google will expand AI R&D, cloud engineering, health projects and skills training in Singapore, deepening a USD $5 billion tech presence.

AI-hungry workloads are forcing data centres to go high-density, pushing power, cooling and sustainability to the top of the IT agenda.

Conviction 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City aims to shift Vietnam’s thriving crypto scene towards institutional finance and global policy alignment.

Rockwell opens a 24/7 Singapore security operations centre to monitor and defend industrial OT networks across the Asia Pacific region.

Rockwell opens a Singapore Security Operations Centre to deliver 24/7 industrial cyber defence and OT threat response across Asia Pacific.

BT opens 2026 tech graduate and apprentice roles at its flagship Salford hub, backing Greater Manchester’s cyber and AI ambitions.