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The gym booking app for those who want to be fit but won’t commit
Photo credit: Gratisography. A few years ago, Devi Prasad Biswal joined a gym. His housemate at the time wasn’t nearly as excited about the prospect but ended up tagging along out of curiosity and...
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Bollywood’s biggest superstar took a Twitter dig at Vodafone. The timing...
Photo credit: fongleon356 / 123RF. Late on Tuesday, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan – he with almost 25 million followers on Twitter – did something you and I do regularly. He had a problem with a...
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Grab hires Indonesia’s ex-top cop to smooth government relations
Badrodin Haiti, former chief of Indonesia’s national police. Grab got itself a powerful new friend. The ride-hailing startup competing with Uber in Southeast Asia earlier this week introduced...
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Being profitable is hard. Being profitable through same-day delivery is harder.
Express deliveries will no longer be a Sisyphean task. Last-mile fulfillment used to be about getting goods from point A to B. It has now become an incredibly complex operation. Customers are more...
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Digital payments get huge leg-up in India’s new budget. Here’s the low-down.
Photo credit: byheaven / 123RF. India is getting super serious about promoting a cashless economy. The government just announced a host of initiatives geared towards pushing digital transaction,...
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Carousell’s take on growing mobile classifieds in SEA
Let’s face it: most of us are guilty of buying things that we have no use for. These items often accumulate and end up collecting dust. Before the Internet, people had to take out an ad in the...
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One more step to ease digital payments in India – a regulatory board
Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister. Photo credit: Wikimedia. India’s annual budget (annual financial statement) is followed avidly both in the country and abroad because of the signals it provides...
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It’s hard for women to reenter the workforce. This Wharton grad’s job portal...
Photo credit: Pixabay. In a Starbucks in the heart of Bangalore, I sip a double espresso across from Neha Bagaria. She nods towards the upper floor of the cafe. “We started, by the way, down the road...
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India sends out a strong signal it’s open to tech business – both local and...
Photo credit: Wikimedia. We live in an era of screaming headlines. Social media noise around us ensures that we remain addicted to what is explicit and provocative. Not that which is implied. So we...
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Indian dating app marries US dating app. Here’s why this cross-cultural union...
Photo credit: Pixabay. Time was when Indian techies in the US were much in demand in the marriage market. We’re not sure if it will be the same after Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigrant...
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Asia is now Facebook’s biggest region
Mark Zuckerberg. Photo credit: Facebook. Asia is now Facebook’s biggest region in terms of daily active users, shows new data today from the social network. With 396 million people across Asia using...
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This tech startup is all for new artists, but is aiming to beat Zomato
Photo credit: laifalight / 123RF Stock Photo The name GuitarClub is most likely to be associated with music, gigs, and rock concerts. But don’t judge the book by its cover. This startup has ambitions...
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With new funding, financial comparison site Cermati moves beyond lead generation
Cermati team. Indonesian startup Cermati has raised “seven-digit USD” in funding from Orange Growth Capital. Cermati helps customers find and get financial products, such as credit cards, auto loans,...
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10 marketing jobs: ThunderQuote, Postpickle, Bhinneka.com and more
Looking for opportunities in marketing & public relations? 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...
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No more sad desk lunches if this 500 Startups-backed service has its way
DishDash’s lovingly packed meals. Photo credit: DishDash. Too much to do, too little time – work just keeps piling up so you can’t even afford to line up for a good lunch. You end up grabbing...
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Grab to invest $700m into R&D, talent development in Indonesia
Grab boss Antony Tan is overseeing the startup’s bloody battle against Uber. Photo credit: Grab. At a star-studded press conference today, Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup Grab announced its plans...
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Line launches Slack rival
Line, the struggling messaging app that’s losing users, today launched its newest spin-off service – a rival to Slack. With Line Works, the Japan-based company has a workplace chat app to take on a...
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Uber shuts down ride-hailing in Taiwan
Photo credit: itchaznong / 123RF. Four years after launching in Taiwan, Uber is halting its ride-hailing services in the country, the company announced today. Describing it as “pressing pause,” Uber...
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This app turns your phone into a dashcam and gives you collision warnings
Photo credit: toonartist / 123RF. There are few things worse than being involved in a collision. Not only does it carry the serious risk of bodily harm, the distress we feel when our cars are mutilated...
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More preschools teach digital literacy to children in Singapore
Jules’ computational thinking curriculum for preschool children. Photo credit: Jules. As more people agree on the importance of digital literacy and learning to code, another consensus seems to be...
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