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Sea reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to a record $3.73B and a $23M net loss, Shopee's revenue grew 31% YoY to a record $2.95B, and expects 2024 to be profitable (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/vY7dy81f0V

Singapore's Sea posts record revenue in Q1 on e-commerce growth
Tech group 'on track' for second straight annual profit despite stiff competition

The biggest US pharmaceutical companies have reorganized their businesses to avoid US taxes:
"How do they do it? You license your intellectual property to an offshore subsidiary. You produce the high value-added active ingredients in a factory in #Ireland or #Singapore, and you pretend like t…

Drugmakers' low U.S. taxes belie their high sales
Most of the largest pharmaceutical companies report losing money in the United States, despite the majority of their sales coming from Americans. The result is lower U.S. taxes for the companies.

Duxton Pinnacle along Tanjong Pagar road.
#Singapore

Some Singaporean writers are resisting their government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and more (Nicholas Yong/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/<…

Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

An Italian minister says Singapore-based Silicon Box plans to invest €3.2B to build a chip factory; Silicon Box raised $200M in January 2024 at a $1B valuation (Flavia Rotondi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Singapore Startup To Invest €3.2 Billion in Italy Chips Factory
Semiconductors startup Silicon Box will invest €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in Italy to build a chip factory in the north of the country, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said Monday.

"Singapore to Build World’s Largest Facility that Sucks Carbon From the Sea"
#Singapore #Carbon #CarbonDioxide

Singapore to Build World’s Largest Facility that Sucks Carbon From the Sea - Inside Climate News
A startup is zapping seawater with electricity to extract and store away carbon, but scientists remain skeptical.

Looking at the monthly dataset update for busrouter.sg, saw this new bus stop named "S'pore Rail Test Ctr". Turns out it's a bus stop near the new Singapore Rail Test Centre (SRTC), located at Tuas, the 1st railway testing facility in Southeast Asia 😲 https://www.<…

"Why EXACTLY is Google Scholar bad for evidence synthesis, systematic reviews?" by Aaron Tay: https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2024/05/why-exactly-is-google-scholar-bad-for.html

Some Singaporean writers are resisting their government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and more (Nicholas Yong/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/<…

Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

TikTok vs. US filing: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming owns a 21% stake in TikTok's parent company, and is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20