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Alibaba’s UCWeb bets $30m on expanding its browser into a news channel in...
Photo credit: nicoletaionescu / 123RF Stock Photo. Last year, Alibaba-owned UCWeb launched UC News to curate content in popular categories like news, tech, entertainment, and cricket. It became the top...
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Running late? This startup wants to cut 20 minutes off your parking time
Photo credit: ParkingRhino. You’re in Bangalore, and you’ve just spent an hour navigating your vehicle through traffic. Not only did you have to travel during rush hour, but you also watched an...
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Amazon trying hard, but still a second fiddle to Flipkart
Photo credit:Pixabay. Looks like Flipkart’s tantrums over demanding preferential treatment for homegrown startups against global players like Amazon are ill-founded. According to the quarterly Indian...
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Indonesia’s Tokopedia and Bukalapak were in acquisition talks. Nothing happened.
Indonesia’s ecommerce marketplace Tokopedia had been in talks to acquire smaller rival Bukalapak, Tech in Asia has learned, although an actual deal did not materialize. Tokopedia CEO William...
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The first-ever Filipino tech company to go public had a rough 2016
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. It’s been a rough couple of months for mobile tech company Xurpas, the first-ever Filipino tech company to IPO, whose stock fell 49 percent last year. Xurpas started 2016...
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New program in Pakistan aims to empower women through digital skills bootcamps
Photo credit: StockSnap. Women looking to boost their digital skills have a particularly difficult time of it in Pakistan. There’s a critical lack of bootcamps that teach things like coding, digital...
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Our Bukalapak coverage: what we could’ve done better
Image credit: macor / 123RF Stock Photo. Using anonymous sources in stories is common in journalism. Familiar names like The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and The Information use...
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Southeast Asia VC leads investment into Beyonce-backed merchandise startup
Photo credit: celebrityabc. Young Malaysia-based venture capital firm RHL Ventures is looking westward with its second investment. The VC announced today it led a strategic funding round in Sidestep, a...
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China toys with AR to resurrect capital’s past
Photo credit: Baidu. Inside one of Beijing’s subway cars, passengers stand shoulder-to-shoulder. It’s not rush hour, but throngs of people are packed inside, all but blocking the red signs for Baidu’s...
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Indonesia’s Sociolla bags series B from Japanese fashion portal, East Ventures
Photo credit: Pixabay. Sociolla, an ecommerce site for all kinds of cosmetics and beauty products just freshened up with a new round of financing. Istyle plans to expand its business to Indonesia...
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You wouldn’t want to miss these 5 kickass stages at TIA Singapore 2017
Tech in Asia Singapore has locked in its 2017 return – and we’re coming back bigger and better than ever before! This year, the wildly popular multi-stage format is back with a broader offering of...
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Ezi Drive’s story, or how to scale a startup without VC help
A month ago, I was meeting some friends for lunch. It was a weekend, and food orders somehow quickly morphed into beer orders. I had taken my car, so I was quietly focusing on my starters, when a...
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10 tech jobs which offers you company equity
The perks of working in a startup are many. Some offer free lunch, health insurance and even membership to yoga clubs. While these are attractive benefits, there is one you should consider as...
View ArticleWe are very sorry, Bukalapak
Dear Zaky and team Bukalapak, As the CEO of Tech in Asia, I’d like to sincerely apologize to you and the entire Bukalapak team about our poor commentaries regarding your company’s financial status and...
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China’s fintech industry shows where the rest of the world is heading
Paying for food with a messaging app. Photo credit: McDonalds. “We need banking but we don’t need banks anymore,” said Bill Gates two decades ago, predicting the explosion in startups creating web and...
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Singapore Press Holdings’ startup accelerator is officially dead
Copyright: digitaleyesphotography / 123RF Stock Photo SPH Plug and Play, the startup accelerator of Singapore’s largest newspaper publisher, has officially been declared dead. SPH spokesman Yeo Siew...
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21 startups in Asia that caught our eye
Here’s our newest round-up of the featured startups on our site this week. If you have startup tips or story suggestions, feel free to email us. Enjoy this week’s list! 1. The Artling | Singapore...
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From customs to cash: here’s what you need to know about the Asian last-mile
Photo credit: Ferli Achirulli/123RF. So you’ve got all your products built and ready to ship. You have orders from people all over Asia. All you have to do now is get the items to them. Easy? Not...
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Revealed: Tech in Asia’s early investor pitch decks – and its biggest mistake
Tech in Asia then and now. Willis Wee, founder and CEO of Tech in Asia (then Penn Olson), secured his first investment in 2011 without a business plan. Still a college student and new to the startup...
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China now has 731 million internet users, 95% access from their phones
Photo credit: Leniners. In a record high, China now has 731 million internet users, with 53.1 percent of the population online, according to authorities. The latest figure, for the end of 2016, is...
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