Kopi With YP: Your Minimalist Morning Brief, 20 Apr

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

Business

IBM’s disappointing earnings and the steep drop in oil prices caused the price-weighted Dow to drop 0.58%.

SGX’s proposal to widen the tick for certain stocks to increase the level of retail participation has sparked a debate.

GIC and Mapletree Investments helped fuel a record total of $22.66 billion for student-housing acquisitions with Asian investors paving the way.
 

World

Japanese employers still has the right to make their workers work as much as 100 hours of overtime if the office is “busy”.

PM Najib said that free speech is thriving in his country, more so than “other nations in the region”.
 

Local

Watch out! There’s a fake Singapore Police Force website out there and scammers are hunting for your financial details.

30 homes will be opening their doors to strangers as part of this year’s Singapore International Festival Of Arts.

Google is joining forces with our local agencies to launch a digital leadership and marketing programme for businesses here.
 

Tech

Facebook wants to read your mind. At least, when it comes to what you’d like to say or type.

Google is planning to build an ad blocker for Chrome, and to possibly turn in on by default for all users.

Spotify premium for students finally launches in 33 new countries, and Singapore is one of them.