Kopi With YP: Your Minimalist Morning Brief, 12 Apr

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Get up to speed and stay smart with the latest business, tech, and local news in under 2 minutes. 

Business

DBS and UOB will replace the current physical dongles used for Internet banking with digital tokens.

Payment provider NETS buys two OCBC subsidiaries for $38 million so as to enable more payment innovations.

The Japanese Yen strengthened against the USD, breaking below the 110 per USD, for the first time since November.
 

World

Chinese social media users were in an uproar yesterday over the viral footage of an Asian man dragged off the overbooked United airlines flight.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the centre of Mindanao island in the Philippines.

Love Japanese potato chips? They may be harder to find this year, thanks to bad weather.
 

Local

The Kallang river area is set to be a cycling, walking haven with the construction of a spiral bridge spanning across the PIE.

A third party contractor doing piling works at Boon Lay accidentally cuts a cable and with it, Internet service was disrupted for more than 3,500 users in Jurong.
 

Tech

Samsung’s digital assistant, Bixby isn’t saying “hello” just yet. The Galaxy S8 is being shipped out without one of its hallmark features.

Making mobile browsing easier and less frustrating, Chrome now uses scroll anchoring to prevent those annoying page jumps.