HubSpot launched CMS Hub, a content management system that offers speed, security, and scalability to rapidly growing businesses. Unlike traditional content management systems that become more difficult to use over time, CMS Hub scales in line with business growth and takes the pain out of managing software, enabling users to focus on creating remarkable website experiences for their customers. CMS Hub comprises two tiers, Enterprise and Professional, giving companies the freedom to choose a CMS offering best suited to their stage of growth. The announcement marks the creation of HubSpot’s latest product hub, and growing businesses can look forward to the benefits of working with a content management system that integrates with best-in-class marketing, sales, service, and CRM tools as part of HubSpot’s all-on-one connected platform.

‘Digital challengers’ are looking to extend their reach at the expense of traditional high street banks, according to leading banking industry experts.

GlobalData’s Retail Banker International asked leading industry figures for their views on the coming year, and digital banking was high on the agenda.

Last month, IMDA and SGTech, together with the ICT community in Singapore stepped forward to extend support to businesses impacted by the COVID-19 situation.

With the circuit breaker announced by Prime Minister Lee, remote working is now in full swing for the majority of Singaporeans – many of whom are now facing immediate challenges with the new arrangements.

Google just presented Meena, an end-to-end, neural conversational model that learns to respond sensibly to a given conversational context. Meena can conduct conversations that are more sensible and specific than existing state-of-the-art chatbots, according to Google’s blog post. Such improvements are reflected through a new human evaluation metric that Google proposes for open domain chatbots, called Sensibleness and Specificity Average (SSA), which captures basic, but important attributes for human conversation.

OneDash just announced the launch of a groundbreaking chat-to-checkout service. The Singapore-based technology company provides digital solutions using Artificial Intelligence to help brands interact better with their customers. Its new messaging platform allows online shoppers to perform direct, in-app, add-to-cart functions, with the option to check out in the very same chat. This new capability eliminates the need to exit a chat session in order to complete a purchase.

Cart abandonment is a major issue facing online retail. A Baymard 2019 Study showed that one out of four shoppers abandons a cart due to inefficient or time-intensive checkout processes. OneDash is addressing this pain point by optimizing the online shopping experience, providing a real-time service for customers to see their purchases from start to finish.

As we approach the start of a new decade, ADA (part of Axiata group) has released a thought leadership piece, 2020 Outlook for Southeast Asian Marketers: 4 Steps to Outmaneuver Your Competition, to help marketers navigate this period of economic uncertainty.

In ever shorter intervals, digitization brings new trends to light that overwhelms us humans both at work and at home. IT businesses and media companies bombard us with phrases like Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Homes, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence (AI) – well-known synonyms that pitch new feel-good technologies nowadays that intend to make hard routine work easier and more convenient.

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecasted to be $18.8 billion in 2020, an increase of 78.5% over the $10.5 billion International Data Corporation (IDC) expects will be spent in 2019.

The latest update to IDC's Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide also shows that worldwide spending on AR/VR products and services will continue this strong growth throughout the 2019-2023 forecast period, achieving a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 77.0%.

Necessity is said to be the mother of invention. The digital economy, which has been on a winning streak over the last decade or so, is also not exempt. The result is that many techpreneurs are seeing their startups fall, and techies are back at the drawing board, thinking up the next big thing.

Namics, a leading full-service digital agency from Switzerland, developed new services for SMBs that combine both the Adobe products of the Experience Cloud and their own services.

IDC Financial Insights continues its series of reports on automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services in IDC Perspective: Six Capabilities from Leading RPA Service Providers That Advance Financial Services Institutions Toward Intelligent Automation. The report looks at robotic process automation (RPA) and how the proposition around it has steadily moved toward intelligent automation and leveraging an intelligent digital workforce.

Tom Szirtes, founder of the immersive technology company Mbryonic, believes we are at a tipping point where immersive technologies will become the dominant mediums of the 21st century, which is why he left a successful career in the video games industry around 5 years ago to start his company.

This year, marketing and media experts will have to develop new skills, engagement models and assessment methods to appeal to consumers in the crowded media landscape, Kantar found out in its global study "Media Trends & Predictions 2020".

LEWIS, the global marketing consultancy, recently revealed the findings of its Bay to Bay research campaign that surveyed 351 U.S. marketers on their perceptions and priorities in the China market.