Respondents that saw social media as a trustworthy source of information jumped in 2022, while more conventional news outlets saw a decline. 

The digital payment industry grew steadily last year, however, the growth reflects competitive immaturity, the solution for which lies in consolidation, analysts have suggested.

A plunge in growth last year is compelling food delivery platforms in Southeast Asia to scrutinize their costs for the sake of profitability.

The release of ChatGPT, NVIDIA Canvas and DALL-E suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) will one day disrupt even creative industries, yet workers in the segment believe some space will always be reserved for humans, no matter how sophisticated software becomes.        

Netflix lost customers in the first half of 2022. It returned to growth in the second half.

The cuts were "in response to macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities," the maker of the Windows operating system said in a US regulatory filing.

Surabaya-based Komunal, which focuses on digitizing lenders outside of Jakarta, has secured a funding top-up from Indonesia’s East Ventures.

Despite the overall shift in consumer trend to online services during the pandemic, the region's food delivery platforms grew a mere 5 percent in GMV last year, plunging from 30 percent in 2021.

While the full revocation of COVID curbs means consumers can physically head to the shops, an industry report finds it likely that many users will continue to rely on online shopping.

The hottest startup in Silicon Valley right now is OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed developer of ChatGPT, a much-hyped chatbot that can write a poem, college essay or even a line of software code.

Financial technology start-up Xendit has established a foothold in Malaysia as it seeks to build a presence across Southeast Asia.

The news underscores rising interest in the artificial intelligence company, whose chatbot has dazzled amateurs and industry experts with its ability to spit out haikus, debug code and answer questions while imitating human speech.

Cryptocurrencies have crept into the new year, licking their wounds after the carnage of 2022. The overall global crypto market cap has risen 5 percent to $871 billion since Jan. 1, but it's still down over 57 percent from this time last year. 

While research has shown continued investment growth this year in data center development, a shift in policy mindset away from data localization and toward hyperscale computing was needed to fulfill market potential.

Microsoft Corp is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans.

While overall venture capital (VC) financing fell 33 percent globally to about $483 billion in 2022, early-stage funding was robust, with $37.4 billion raised in so-called angel or seed rounds, in line with the record level seen in 2021, according to data from research firm PitchBook.

More than a quarter of 2022’s venture capital (VC) funding went straight into climate-technology start-ups’ pockets, a new study finds, signifying a resilient trend in the archetype despite an overall slowdown in tech investment.

Much of the tech industry had a rough year in 2022 as major companies went through axing sprees. However, smaller-scale start-ups experienced distinctly different fortunes as their fundraising improved.

More than three-quarters of the world's over 4.5 billion internet users live in countries where authorities punish online expression, according to Freedom House, which ranked China as having the worst environment for internet freedom.

A new study predicts that the average cost of data breaches will surpass US$5 million per incident in 2023, with phishing accounting for the majority of the attacks.

A proposal to bar federal employees from using Chinese app TikTok on government devices appeared set to become law, threatening to deal a blow to the company's reputation and scare off advertisers even if it will not affect many users, experts said.

The tech industry saw a handful of ups and downs that stretched to the extremes throughout 2022; from record-breaking initial public offerings (IPOs) to jaw-dropping shares nosedives and layoffs. 

The measures include a freeze on most hiring, salary freezes for senior managers and cuts in travel and expense budgets, co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan said in the memo which was issued on Wednesday and viewed by Reuters.

More companies were expected to be increasingly reliant on cutting-edge technology to improve business efficiency amid global economic uncertainty, a top business executive has said

The Biden administration plans to place Chinese chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) and 35 other Chinese firms on a trade blacklist that would prevent them from buying certain American components, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Traditional TV broadcaster still has a slight competitive edge over booming streaming platforms despite the latter’s seemingly unstoppable upheaval, Indonesian private television station players predict, based on a new study from Nielsen.

China has filed a dispute with the World Trade Organization over US restrictions on chip exports, Beijing's commerce ministry said in a statement late Monday, accusing Washington of threatening global supply chains.

Tokopedia claims top position as the safest, most trusted and most satisfying platform, as Indonesians no longer see promotions and prices as the main factors determining their satisfaction in e-commerce transactions, a new study from Kadence International shows. 

Online platforms have fundamentally changed the way food outlets operate, offering merchants wide market access on the one hand but also increasing competition on the other, while taking a sizeable chunk out of merchant's revenues in platform fees.

The vast majority of start-ups in Southeast Asia are having a hard time recruiting qualified staff, and retaining them is an increasing problem.