2023 OPPO Inspiration Challenge: Top 5 Proposals to be Unveiled at Global Final Demo Event in Singapore

OPPO announces that it will host the Global Final Demo Event of the 2023 OPPO Inspiration Challenge on October 18 in Singapore. During the event, fifteen start-ups will present their innovative proposals as they vie for a place in the global top 5.

On May 8, the OPPO Research Institute initiated the OPPO Inspiration Challenge for the second year — a global platform created to empower entrepreneurs and technology professionals worldwide. Following an intensive evaluation process and three regional demo events in Boston, Shenzhen, and Bangkok, OPPO has selected 15 innovative proposals from 687 submissions spanning 66 countries and regions to advance to the Global Final Demo Event.

Alipay+ Integrates Into SGQR and Is Now Available At All Hawker Centres in Singapore

Alipay+’s latest development is set to further enhance the cashless travel and dining experience for Filipino tourists using GCash in Singapore 

Enabled through its partnership with the Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS), Singapore’s leading payment services group, Alipay+ is now integrated into SGQR and becomes available as one of the payment schemes at about 11,000 stalls at NEA hawker centres in Singapore, as well as HDB coffee shops, wet markets, and JTC industrial canteens. Users of Alipay+ partner e-wallets can pay via the SGQR displayed at stalls by opening their home e-wallet apps and scanning the SGQR. 

Eastern Communications wins B2B Initiative of the Year award at the 2023 Asian Telecom Awards in Singapore

Eastern Communications Co-Coordinators, Atty. Aileen Regio and Vince Tempongko, receive the B2B Initiative of the Year Award at 2023 Asian Telecom Awards

In accordance with its promise of High Tech and High Touch services, Eastern Communications took home the B2B Initiative of the Year award at the 2023 Asian Telecom Awards in Singapore.

An international recognition for Asia’s most outstanding telecom companies, the 2023 Asian Telecom Awards held in Conrad Centennial, Singapore touted remarkable achievements and initiatives of various telcos around Asia, lauding those with outstanding projects and those that were able to navigate their way through various market challenges while providing relevant and best-in-class products and services to their clients.

Singapore’s ARTBOX 2023 Unveils Top Attractions that Ignites Creativity and Connectivity

Following the announcement of its return in February after three year-hiatus, Singapore’s largest lifestyle event ARTBOX recently unveiled its line up of multifaceted activities that ignite imagination, creativity and hyperlocal entertainment experiences. 

ARTBOX returns with more than 20 of its signature colourful containers measuring 20-foot and 40-foot that recall its Thai origins while offering a uniquely Singaporean twist. Right in the heart of the exhibition hall sits the 3-level high Hero Structure, comprising octagon-shaped containers stacked vertically with projection mapping by visual artist Aundraj Jude (@ASSTHROWKNOT) and motion designer Reynard Adrianto (@reygular). ARTBOX is also collaborating with JELILO artist Lester Lim (@lesdoublewood) and tokidoki (@tokidokibrand), as their vibrant and visionary art installations tell a tale of hope, courage and inner strength. Repurposed across the 9,822 square metre space, these creative elements bring out a refined night market experience that is backed with the hallmark of the signature Artbox aesthetic.

Augmented Reality A Growing Market In The Philippines

Pinoy smartphones users and netizens has something to look forward for with an introduction in the country of a new technology that is becoming a hit worldwide.

Innovative media enhancement technology “Augmented Reality” or simply “AR,” which integrates digital information into a real environment in real time, is now available in the Philippines.

This was announced by the executive of Spark Global Tech Systems, Inc., the exclusive partner of AR-based technology in the Philippines that is under license from Toppan, a 115-year-old company and is one of the largest global printing companies in Japan.

Augmented Reality is a technology used to superimpose virtual images onto photos taken by a smartphone in real time. Compared to an earlier technology called “virtual reality,” which is more of creating an artificial environment, AR utilizes an existing environment and “superimposes” new information on top of it.