For years, companies have treated Google rankings as the front door to online discovery. A new study from Manila-based digital marketing agency Spiralytics suggests that door is no longer the only one that matters. As consumers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Perplexity for product recommendations, comparisons and buying advice, brands face a new visibility […] The post Why Philippine companies are winning AI mentions but losing control of context appeared first on e27.

The cryptocurrency sector is moving higher in a coordinated fashion. Bitcoin rose 1.70 per cent to US$85,002.11 over the past 24 hours. The total crypto market climbed 1.16 per cent to US$2.89T. This advance rests on two powerful forces. Institutional optimism and policy progress are working together. The result is a rally that looks more […] The post The October 2 US jobs report lands soon. Could it make or break Bitcoin’s rally? appeared first on e27.

Thitu Island and its residents have come under the spotlight after the Philippines, in a bid to reinforce its claims in the South China Sea, announced plans to file an updated maritime chart with the United Nations. Observers say the filing would not establish Philippine sovereignty but could help Manila identify and challenge competing claims in more precise legal terms. More than just a technical document, the updated map is a means for the government to formally document its presence and...

AI has made it much easier for decision-makers to work with information. A company announcement can be summarised in seconds, a long annual report can be condensed, and a chatbot can help compare competitors or explain an unfamiliar industry. These are useful improvements, but they still solve only part of the information problem. Most AI […] The post The next information advantage is knowing what changed appeared first on e27.

For many startup founders, the first attempt to understand the cost of artificial intelligence (AI) begins in the wrong place: the model provider’s pricing page. They calculate the price of input and output tokens, compare one model against another, and try to forecast usage as if AI were a simple utility meter. That approach may […] The post The hidden economics of autonomous AI agents appeared first on e27.

Talking about artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is no longer a discussion about the future, but about the present. According to IMDA’s latest data, SMEs’ AI adoption rate has more than tripled in just one year: 14.5 per cent of SMEs have adopted AI as compared to 62.5 per […] The post SMEs adopt AI four times slower than big business, the fix starts with the PC appeared first on e27.

Every comparison site promises to find you a better deal. Jonathan Honig thinks it’s time MoneyHero found one for itself. On 29 September, the investor, who says he owns about 9 per cent of MoneyHero’s Class A shares, published an open letter asking the board to hire an independent adviser and explore a sale. Honig’s […] The post MoneyHero’s activist investor wants a sale. Richard Li holds the real vote appeared first on e27.

Two new islands have appeared off Anak Krakatoa, potentially the first in nearly a century to emerge within the caldera left by Krakatoa’s catastrophic 1883 eruption. The formations, discovered following a 25-hour eruption in early September, sit hundreds of metres off opposite sides of Anak Krakatoa – one to the northwest and the other to the southeast – almost on a straight line through the volcano’s crater, according to Indonesia’s Geological Agency. The agency places one about 760 metres...

Singapore’s biggest crackdown so far on fake online reviews has exposed how businesses exploit the appeal of five-star ratings to game the system, with experts warning generative AI will make fake reviews more rampant and consumers need to be more discerning about what they read online. The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCS) has taken action against 45 companies – including a funeral parlour, a law firm and an aesthetics clinic – after finding they bought reviews from a...

Indonesia’s agritech sector looks different in 2026 than it did when TaniHub raised its Series B in 2021. The cohort of platforms that emerged in the late 2010s — TaniHub, Crowde, iGrow, Sayurbox, and others — aimed to do for smallholder agriculture what fintech had done for SME credit: build technology infrastructure for a segment […] The post The agritech credit paradox: Lessons from TaniHub and Indonesia’s first agritech generation appeared first on e27.