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AI may kickstart the declining smartwatch market in India in 2017: report
Photo credit: 123rf. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Elon Musk of Tesla may disagree on the power of artificial intelligence, but the emerging technology is fast gaining ground. It is set to launch the...
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29 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. Vault Dragon | Singapore...
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Former Apple engineer is building the Codecademy for robotics
Photo credit: RoboTerra. Sui Shaolong is no stranger to hardware. Before co-founding RoboTerra, a robotics education startup based in Beijing and California, he designed iPhone 6 cameras as a...
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British Indians pool funds for Indian startups, open new accelerator in...
From left: Vinutha Rallapalli, Gouri Shankar Sridhara, Paul Smith, LN Parimi, and Atal Malviya of Spark10, Ankit Samadariya, CEO of The Hive, Divya Jyothi, Ravi Warrier, and Swati Suramya of Spark10,...
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Ola gets $330m from SoftBank, but valuation plummets to $3.5b
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal. Photo credit: Tech in Asia. India’s Uber arch-rival Ola has once again won backing from Japan’s SoftBank, with fresh funding of US$330 million, a person familiar with the...
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40 tech jobs in Asia this week: FoodRazor, Sonder Design, MC Payment and more
Good day folks! Here are the latest tech jobs in Asia this week! This list will focus on highlighting digital and tech-centric jobs from a healthy mix of startups and companies across tech and...
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Employee perks startup grabs funding from KK Fund
Venteny founder and CEO Junichiro Waide (center) with his team. Photo credit: Venteny. Singapore-based employee benefits platform Venteny announced today it has closed a seed round led by early-stage...
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The startup that designs jewelry with the help of your heartbeat
The company’s Sierra design. Photo credit: Crafted By My Heart. You whip out your smartphone and open an app. You make some choices on the screen, then place your finger on the phone light and camera...
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Rocket Internet-backed GFG says it’s not selling Zalora in Indonesia
Photo credit: Zalora Zalora last week sold parts of its Philippines operation to a local conglomerate, Ayala Group. A TechCrunch report then suggested that this was a “retreat” from the country. The...
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A startup founder’s view of Tech in Asia’s Bootstrap Alley
As any startup knows, getting noticed by customers and investors can be difficult. Especially if you’re an early-stage startup like Kobe, which was founded just last year. When the opportunity to...
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Line Pay grows nearly 14x, spreads outside Japan
Line chief strategy and marketing officer, Jun Masuda. Photo credit: Hiromichi Matono (Nikkei BP) Line’s payment and money transfer service Line Pay passed 10 million registered users, the company...
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Silicon Valley adtech startup taps ex-Twitter exec to open first Asia office...
Photo credit: sifotography / 123RF. Not only is Asia mobile-first, it’s also expanding at a rate faster than any other region in the world. It’s because of this dynamic that nearly a quarter of the...
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8 rising startups in Japan
This week’s roundup features a robo-adviser, an armband that mimics Minority Report, and two investments from Sony. Full details below: Money Design Photo credit: sifotography / 123RF. Money Design,...
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How to form a new habit – and make it stick
Photo credit: newhdwallpapers. As entrepreneurs or startup employees, we are always being challenged to “unlearn,” pick up new habits, or tweak life patterns that we have been used to for years. It...
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Meru strikes while the iron is hot, even as Uber and Ola are in limbo
Illustration by Tech in Asia’s Andre Gunawan. I have an early morning flight to catch tomorrow from Bangalore to Delhi. Normally, I would have booked an Uber, whose service I’ve come to appreciate...
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Carousell has a new app for buying and selling cars
Photo credit: Carousell. Remember when Carousell bought Caarly, a Singaporean startup that connects customers with used car dealerships? The fruit of this union is Carousell Motors, a standalone app to...
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Delivereat secures funding from Gobi Partners to expand to new cities
Photo credit: Delivereat. Shanghai-based Gobi Partners has made a new investment in Malaysia – this time in Penang-based online food delivery service Delivereat. The startup scored US$450,000 in...
View ArticleApple’s dumbest ad yet?
I’m trying to be nicer to Apple. But while I was watching my favorite soccer club embarrass itself for the nth time this year, I saw this intelligence-insulting ad: Technically, of course, this is...
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500 Startups-backed team is building the Babel Fish for business meetings
Photo credit: langstrup / 123RF. English might be the “global language of business,” but as anyone who has negotiated a cross-border business deal knows, navigating local linguistic nuances matters,...
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4 rising startups in India – Feb 28, 2017
Photo credit: ververidis / 123RF. Hiring is the ultimate make-or-break decision for any company, and recruiters are always hunting for ways to crack it. SaaS startup Belong, which takes a shot at it...
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