Adyen’s new premises in Singapore will serve the company’s customers in the region.
The expansion in Singapore is a result of Adyen’s continued momentum and commitment to the region. Adyen currently has three offices in the region, including Shanghai and Sydney.
Adyen today announced its continued commitment to businesses in the region with the expansion and move to a new Singapore office.
“Asia Pacific is the most active e-commerce market in the world and Adyen sees enormous potential to enable e-commerce and omni-channel businesses in this region,” said Warren Hayashi, President, Asia Pacific at Adyen.
The office in Singapore will remain as a regional headquarters for the payment solutions company as it increases its presence in Asia Pacific.
Located in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District, the close to 500 square meters’ office space will provide modern end-to-end payment infrastructure for leading global companies.
Adyen has been empowering businesses such as Cathay Pacific, Daniel Wellington and Spotify with the ability to accept a variety of payment methods from consumers in Asia Pacific, including local and alternative payment methods.
SingTel is one of Asia’s leading communications group with operations and investments around the world, serving both the corporate and consumer markets.
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SingTel – Singapore Telecommunications Limited
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During CommunicAsia2012, I had the chance to speak with Nigel V. Wright and Gene Zhang of Spirent Communications about the face of things to come as countries in Asia begin rolling out 4G LTE networks.
Spirent is a multinational telecommunications and network testing company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Wright is the Vice President for Wireless Product Marketing & Corporate Marketing at Spirent, while Zhang is the VP & General Manager for Asia Pacific at the company.
With LTE rollouts in Asia-Pacific now progressing at an aggressive pace, and the region set to surpass 120 million LTE connections by 2015, operators are competing to become the first to offer 4G services in this high-growth subscriber market.
Spirent Communications is a multinational telecommunications and network testing company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
With annual sales of US$528 million (US$160 million in APAC), it had a market capitalisation of US$1.7 billion as of May 2012.
Spirent Communications
Spirent is a global provider of performance analysis and service assurance solutions that enable the development and deployment of next-generation networking technologies.
It pioneered testing of Ethernet networks, IP Telephony and VoIP, VPNs, TriplePlay, CDMA applications and Location Based Services.
Today, the company is helping to test the first deployments of the next generation Internet or IPv6 networks in Asia, Europe and North America.
Belkin is a maker of network connectivity hardware, as well as accessories for consumer devices such as iPods and iPads.
Belkin makes wireless routers, iPod accessories, iPad cases and energy saving devices.
Belkin was founded in 1983 by Chet Pipkin and is headquartered in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The rebranded Belkin logo.
The company rebranded itself with a change in corporate logo during CES 2012, and a refocus onto developing “People-Inspired Products”.
Founder Pipkin, now President and CEO of the company, initiated the rebranding.
“The new Belkin logo, also known as PIP for ‘People-Inspired Products’, is an image made of dots configured to create a universal symbol of a person. It symbolises Belkin’s commitment in enhancing technology experiences for people, inspired by people,” said Alan Sparks, Vice President of Belkin, Asia Pacific.To achieve the promise of delivering People-Inspired Products, Belkin will put the emphasis on listening to the voices of their customers and partners.
These voices are to be integral to the development of Belkin’s products in their effort to improve and anticipate the evolving needs in our daily lives.
In conjunction with the rebranding, Belkin also announced its range of new products.
A list of these products is included in the press release below.
TomTom (AEX:TOM2) is a major supplier of in-car location and navigation products and services.
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Amsterdam, TomTom has over 3,500 employees and sells its products in over 40 countries. Its products include portable navigation devices, in-dash infotainment systems, fleet management solutions, maps and real-time services, including TomTom HD Traffic.
Here is TomTom’s route planner which includes live traffic information (not available for some areas yet, including Singapore).
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) provides cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce.
Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai’s global platform aims to transform the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate.
Akamai is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton still serves as Akamai’s Chief Scientist. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent with connotations of insightful or wise or skillful. – excerpt from Wikipedia.
Akamai has deployed a pervasive, highly distributed cloud optimisation platform with nearly 100,000 servers located in more than 650 cities, in 72 countries and within many of the key networks that make up the internet.
With more than 2,100 employees, annual revenue in 2010 was $1,023.6 million, up 19 percent from the previous year. Follow postings related to Akamai Technologies on tech4tea.com.
Akamai’s product portfolio includes:
Digital Asset Solutions – to manage, store and deliver exceptional digital media experiences across a wide range of platforms/devices around the world. These include Akaimai HD Network, Akamai Media Delivery and Electronic Software Delivery.
Dynamic Site Solutions – to spped up rich interactive content and accelerate all customer-driven transactions. These include Dynamic Site Accelerator and Dynamic Site Accelerator Enterprise.
Application Performance Solutions – enables the public Internet to be the platform for accelerating any critical enterprise application to anyone, anytime, anywhere. These include Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator.
Advertising Decision Solutions – to enable more relevant online advertising, using Predictive Segments.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company producing flash memory storage devices, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and retail channels.
Founded in 1988, and headquartered in California, SanDisk’s diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market.
SanDisk’s products are used by consumers, manufacturers and enterprise customers.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a global company in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. It employs some 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries.
Samsung consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD.
Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.
Samsung consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD.
