Tagged: smart cities

September 19, 2020 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore, Helsinki (in Finland) and Zurich (in Switzerland) have been named as the world’s “smartest” cities during this year. They’ve managed to outperform other major European and global financial hubs, according to the Smart City Index Report for 2020. Geneva is another Swiss city that… Read More

June 29, 2020 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Building Cities Beyond (BCB) Blockchain has introduced its BCB Innovation Grant. The Singapore-headquartered distributed ledger technology (DLT) developers are focused on supporting various smart city solutions. As first reported by Singapore Fintech News, BCB Blockchain confirmed that it will be awarding $15 million in grant… Read More

October 15, 2019 @ 7:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Plug and Play Amsterdam reportedly held a Soft Launch for its new Smart Cities and Financial Services programs last Wednesday at the Johan Cruijff ArenA. According to Plug and Play, the event brought in more than 80 attendees including six startups and over 30 corporate… Read More

October 14, 2019 @ 6:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

5G (fifth generation cellular network technology) is expected to significantly improve several key sectors of society. The newly developed 5G tech offers 10 times faster speeds compared to 4G networks.  5G also enables higher network connection density in terms of the number of online devices… Read More

November 11, 2016 @ 9:20 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Fintech is emerging as the next big transformation in India India and the UK held a joint Tech Summit on November 7-9 in New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India emphasized close collaboration between the two nations during his remarks because it was “vital that India… Read More