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Baidu just acquired the startup building China’s answer to Alexa
The Chinese startup’s voice assistant app in action giving football results. Photo credit: Raven Tech. A Y Combinator-backed startup building China’s answer to Alexa has been acquired by Baidu, China’s...
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VC starts fellowship program to give tech students a jumpstart in...
Photo credit: Francisco Osorio Tech students from India’s premier engineering colleges are choosing to stay back in India instead of making a beeline for the US like they did in the past. Many of them...
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An investor has its way: Indian court orders investigation into AskMe’s finances
Photo credit: Guardian Liberty Voice. The battle between the board of Getit Infoservices – which operated popular ecommerce and listings website AskMe – and its majority investor Astro has reached a...
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10 marketing jobs: Josh Talks, goGame, Fabelio 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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Grab extends GrabShare carpooling service to Malaysia and the Philippines
Photo credit: Grab. Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab is expanding its GrabShare service to Malaysia and the Philippines, it announced today. GrabShare is Grab’s version of UberPool, its...
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Xiaomi boss’s VC makes maiden India investment
The Truebil team. Photo credit: Truebil. Online used car seller Truebil just raised US$3 million from China’s leading venture capital Fund Shunwei Capital, founded in 2011 by Xiaomi boss Jun Lei and...
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Here’s what’s going on in India’s startup ecosystem
Photo credit: Himanshu Singh Gurjar/Unsplash. India is the world’s fastest growing smartphone market, with 462 million internet users, second only to China. The number rose 23 percent last year, and...
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New $100m fund allows institutional investors to invest in VC-backed startups
Photo credit: Pixabay. A trust fund that provides growth-stage startups a new way of raising money has launched in Singapore. CapBridge Investment Trust (CIT), unveiled today, will manage sub-trust...
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WeChat to roll out paywall for publishers
Photo credit: niloo138 / 123RF. WeChat, the massively popular messaging app with over 800 million active users mainly in China, is testing out a paywall that will allow media outlets and bloggers to...
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Meet Indonesia’s newest venture fund, backed by one of Tokopedia’s co-founders
The five founders of Indogen Capital. Clockwise from front left: Teezar Firmansyah, Leonitus Alpha Edison, Hendry Willy, Nararya Ciputra, and Chandra Firmanto. Indogen Capital is a new addition to a...
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Didi’s new plan to win over unfriendly authorities
Photo credit: Jonathan Kos-Read. On Wednesday, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing announced its plans for corporate restructuring 2017 in a letter to employees. Among them: the creation of a new...
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4 rising startups in India – Feb 16, 2017
Photo credit: damedeeso / 123RF. A used car marketplace becomes the object of a maiden investment from Lei Jun’s VC, while a couple of acquisitions and some funding round out our list of startups in...
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10 intern jobs in Asia this week
Good day folks! Here are the latest intern jobs in Asia this week! This list will focus on highlighting digital and tech-centric intern jobs from a healthy mix of startups and companies across tech...
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Forget about Bitcoin. Invest in gold to stay financially secure
Photo credit: Pixabay. If you had invested in gold a decade ago, the value of your investment would now have increased by a substantial 82 percent. If you had chosen to put that cash in the bank...
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Chinese brands make huge gains in Malaysia’s smartphone race
China’s Oppo has emerged as the biggest gainer in Malaysia’s smartphone market last year. Oppo posted a 66.8 percent jump in shipments, according to data from IDC, while Samsung leapt 17.2 percent and...
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Online lenders like UangTeman to face new regulations in Indonesia
Image credit: gmast3r / 123RF. Indonesia’s financial services authority (OJK) is working on new rules for online money lenders, The Jakarta Globe reported earlier this week. The expected release date...
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Acer lost India’s smartphone battle. This is how it plans to win the war.
Photo credit: 123rf. At a time when the shipment of PCs is trailing that of smartphones, Taiwan-based Acer has taken a rather unusual route in India – the fastest growing market in the world. The...
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Jack Ma’s Ant Financial makes first investment in the Philippines
Taguig City in the Philippines. Photo credit: Achim Voss. Just over three months after Ant Financial first made a move into Southeast Asia with an investment in Thailand, the Chinese web giant has...
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Corruption, language, lack of confidence hurt Asia’s digital workers: study
Photo credit: twinsterphoto / 123RF. The digital economy’s on its way to becoming the great equalizer of the world – but it’s got some serious obstacles to get around first. In Asia, a new report finds...
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Is Singapore’s CFE report good news for startups and investors? We asked what...
Photo credit: Pixabay. Last week, the Committee for the Future Economy (CFE) produced a report with recommendations on how Singapore can maintain its competitive position in the global economy in the...
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