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10 software engineering jobs to watch this week
Looking for opportunities in software engineering? We have handpicked 10 jobs for you this week. Click on the links below and apply away! Recruiting and keen to list your jobs in future articles?...
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This startup raises series B to plug clean energy into Southeast Asian grids
Photo credit: Flickr. Melbourne-based GreenSync has bagged US$8.7 million in series B funding to take its technology to international markets, including Southeast Asia. The round was led by the...
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India’s smartphone market tops record 300m in 2016, iPhone hits new high
Photo credit: paulprescott72 / 123RF. As India shifts from flip phones to smartphones with ever more vigor, the country saw a record high of 300 million smartphones shipped in 2016, up 18 percent from...
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Singapore’s MC Payment acquires a fintech startup to work with Alipay
Photo credit: Genesis Payment Solutions. Singapore-based MC Payment announced today it has acquired a controlling stake in Genesis Payment Solutions. Genesis is a Singaporean payments company that is...
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Fidelity joins Morgan Stanley, cuts Flipkart’s valuation to $6 billion
Photo credit: Mike Poresky. A fund managed by US-based mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments has cut Flipkart’s valuation, pegging the company at around US$6 billion, filings with the US Securities...
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Line loses users for the first time, but makes more money than ever
While WhatsApp and Facebook add hundreds of millions of new users each year, Line is not faring so well. The messaging app announced today that it lost three million users from October to December,...
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Meet the 8 Indian startups that just graduated from French accelerator Numa
Photo credit: jawwa / 123RF Stock Photo French accelerator Numa feels it has hit Bangalore’s startup ecosystem at the most opportune time. The number of startups registered in India is growing at...
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Chinese investors wary of hyped-up Indian startups, look for hidden gems
In a mature ecosystem like China, there are lots of third-party service providers who can help to identify good early-stage startups based on data monitoring and more. Photo credit: Maxpixel. Chinese...
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10 marketing jobs: Swiftcow, CybrHome, Kredivest and more
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7 rising startups in India – Jan 26, 2017
Photo credit: Wikimedia. Japanese backing for Indian games, home tuition for next-gen math, and local snacks from the little nooks of South India: they’re among the lucky seven startups that got funded...
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Indonesia’s Berrybenka bags major funding to open physical stores
Berrybenka CEO Jason Lamuda. Indonesian online fashion store Berrybenka secured new funds at the end of last year, the startup announced today. It’s an “eight-figure amount” in US dollars from Maj...
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India now has 462 million internet users – 79% of traffic is mobile
Photo credit: stockbroker / 123RF Stock Photo. A little over a third of India’s 1.3 billion people are connected to the internet. That’s less than the global ratio: half of the world’s 7.5 billion...
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Becoming the next Supercell isn’t child’s play. Here are some tips.
Gerald Tock, CEO of Inzen Studio, and investor Masahiko Honma, at PIXEL Studios. Finding the right games studio to invest in needn’t be a risky move, but some investors may not know what they’re really...
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Jack Ma’s Ant Financial pushes into US with $880m Moneygram acquisition
Photo credit: Alibaba. China’s biggest online finance app today pushed into the US market with the acquisition of a money transfer service for US$880 million. The deal sees Ant Financial, a spin-off...
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She’s teaching girls in Singapore how to code and think critically
One of the bootcamps organized by 21C Girls. Photo credit: Publicity. The lack of women in tech has been a talking point for several years now, but some people are beginning to realize that the...
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Facebook has a big ‘women problem’ in India
Photo credit: tpabma / 123RF. Yesterday was India’s Republic Day. We pride ourselves on being a modern, liberal democracy. But the truth is that gender inequality in India is as bad as in some of the...
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Digital outsourcing startup raises $3m to grab Thailand’s mobile dev market
Photo credit: ronstik / 123RF. Thailand-based software development and outsourcing startup D8 announced today it has secured funding to the tune of US$3 million. The funding round was led by Thailand’s...
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Rocket Internet ropes in former eBay exec to build engineering hub in Bangkok
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. German startup juggernaut Rocket Internet is famed for its frenzied pace of execution – taking a business from idea to implementation in a couple of months – and...
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My 48 hours inside Hawaii’s ‘startup paradise’
The view from Sultan Ventures, a VC firm in Honolulu. I take my coffee on the beach. It’s the serenest morning I can remember. I sit on a lounge chair in front of a manmade lagoon and watch pairs of...
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How this blockchain startup plans to tackle restrictions on your e-books and...
What digital assets do you really own? Photo credit: Brendan Mruk and Matt Lee/CC BY-SA 3.0. Imagine buying a book from a bookstore and bringing it home. You scribble notes in the margins as you read,...
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