Terence Lee

Singapore

🇸🇬 Terence with one "r". Chief Editor at @techinasia. Interests: tech, media and journalism, crypto, AI and automation. Owns some crypto.

Articles

Statista, TIA to award Singapore's Top Fintech Companies for 2026

3 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Terence Lee

The award is open to both young startups and established tech firmsFOR the first time, Tech in Asia and global market research firm Statista will recognise Singapore's top fintech companies. The list will include firms across these sectors: This new award is an offshoot of Statista's list of the world's top fintech companies, which has been running since 2022. You can see the winners for the 2024 global list here. For the Singapore edition, applicants must be headquartered in the country.
Risk in Motion | Why Your GRC Program Needs To Evolve

1 month ago | protechtgroup.com | Terence Lee

Risk doesn’t stand still. It is always in motion: it may impact your organisation, and it may not. Achieving strategic objectives requires you to prepare nonetheless, and because risk doesn’t stand still, neither should your risk management program. Yet many organisations are still operating with frameworks built for a slower, simpler time. Periodic risk reviews. Siloed systems. Static reports.
.NET on Heroku: Now Generally Available

2 months ago | heroku.com | Rune Soerensen |Terence Lee

It’s never been a more exciting time to be a .NET developer. With .NET (formerly known as .NET Core) approaching its 10-year anniversary this November, the platform has evolved into a powerful, cross-platform ecosystem, embracing modern development practices and powering a vast array of applications. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that .NET support on Heroku, previously in beta, is now Generally Available (GA), marking a significant milestone for .NET developers on our platform.
Heroku Fir: Dive into the New Platform Capabilities

2 months ago | heroku.com | Ethan Limchayseng |Terence Lee

For years, Heroku has been empowering developers to deploy and scale their applications with ease. Now, we’re thrilled to introduce the general availability of the next generation of the Heroku platform, codenamed Fir, launching later this month April 2025. Built on open source standards and cloud-native technologies, Fir accelerates your development like never before. A change of this scale is not something that we take lightly.
ShopGuru combines inaudible sound and mobile tech to reward shoppers as they enter a store

Feb 12, 2025 | techinasia.com | Terence Lee

It‚Äôs an app that knows exactly when you‚Äôve walked into a store, and rewards you simply for doing so. ShopGuru, a customer loyalty mobile app, has that omnipresent quality that‚Äôs straight out of science fiction, though the technology is surprisingly simple. The trick is in an inconspicuous device placed at the entrance of shopfronts which emits an inaudible sound.
Autonomous drones couldâve helped contain riots in Singapore and Thailand

Feb 3, 2025 | techinasia.com | Terence Lee

In the past few weeks, the world had its eyes on Southeast Asia as Thailand and Singapore were engulfed in riots. In Thailand, tens of thousands of anti-government protesters demanded the resignation of the Thai Prime Minister. In Singapore, foreign workers flipped over vehicles in anger over an Indian National who was killed by a bus. The crowd swelled to 400 at one point. The mayhem wasnât restricted to the streets.
SingTel Innov8 and Optus launch new seed program for Australian startups

Jan 28, 2025 | techinasia.com | Terence Lee

SingTel Innov8, the venture capital arm of SingTel, has joined forces with Australian telco Optus to start an Australian Seed Program to take young digital startups to the next stage and help them expand into Asia. This Optus-Innov8 Seed Program will provide Australian startups with seed funding, mentoring, networking and co-working spaces. It will invest up to A$250,000 per startup.
Veteran travel exec’s new startup sees new gold in airline cargo

Jan 26, 2025 | techinasia.com | Terence Lee

This article is a part of Startup Spotlight, a series that features young, up-and-coming startups. Property holds value, even below your feet. Yet, airlines are flying with the bellies of their planes 85% empty, resulting in untapped income. Jeff Pan, a veteran travel executive and startup founder, sees an opportunity here. His new Singapore-based startup, Belli, has developed software that modernize air cargo operations. Here’s more on their approach.
Sleek, pre-assembled 3D printer at USD 347? Here’s how Pirate3D is doing it

Jan 25, 2025 | techinasia.com | Terence Lee

There hasn’t been a pre-launch product from a Singapore startup that has garnered this much press attention for a long while. Simply put, people are agog about the USD 347 price point for an Apple-esque 3D printer that will be pre-assembled and calibrated right out of the box. In fact, some have been downright skeptical, believing the photos to be renders rather than real images.
This startup gives AI agents access to frictionless finance

Jan 24, 2025 | techinasia.com | Terence Lee

This article is a part of Startup Spotlight, a series that features young, up-and-coming startups. AI is thinking, creating, and solving complex problems ‚ÄĒ but it‚Äôs not paying. Despite being the next frontier of AI, autonomous agents are held back by financial systems not designed for machines. Singapore-based Neural Payments, which is a startup backed by Antler, hopes to bridge that gap.