This device keeps your coffee at the right temperature (Video)
The morning cuppa slowly going cold is a reality for most office folk. Kickstarter project The Jül is here to change that frigid fact of life with its heated smart mug. This post This device keeps your...
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Tencent just grabbed a 5% stake in Tesla
The all-electric Model 3, starting from US$35,000, is due to launch later this year. Photo credit: Tesla. Chinese tech giant Tencent, maker of the popular WeChat messaging app, has taken a 5 percent...
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World’s top venture capitalists revealed
Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital. Image credit: Brian Solis. Investment research firm CB Insights has released its latest rankings of the world’s top 50 venture capitalists. The top 20 were revealed to...
View ArticleBaidu suffers another blow to AI efforts, thanks to Tencent
Tencent has poached Tong Zhang, who heads up Baidu’s Big Data Lab, it announced. Tong will head Tencent’s own AI lab, which was established last year. This is another setback for Baidu’s AI research...
View ArticleThis wearable robot is helping people walk again (Video)
A walking assist exoskeleton today will typically burn a US$70,000 hole in your wallet, at least. Chinese company Fourier Intelligence wants to change that with its first exoskeleton product. The X1,...
View ArticleHere’s why your startup isn’t getting funded (Video)
There are too many reasons why a startup would be unsuccessful in raising funds. Not the least of which, you’re not connecting with or talking to VCs in the right way. Nikhil Kapur of Gree Ventures...
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Jack Ma’s Ant Financial to build an open marketplace for finance products
Pedestrians strolling in Pudong where Shanghai’s finance district is located. Photo credit: wangsong / 123RF. Jack Ma’s multi-billion-dollar empire is built on open marketplaces. First, there was...
View ArticleMeet the man who beat Apple in China – twice (Video)
You’d be forgiven for not recognizing Duan Yongping’s name. He’s quite the reclusive billionaire. You will, however, quite likely recognize the two smartphone brands he founded – Oppo and Vivo. In...
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Go-Jek’s app has major data leaks, claims security firm. Go-Jek says they’re...
Indian security firm Fallible claims to have exposed major security flaws in Go-Jek – Indonesia’s highest valued startup on record and a rival of Grab and Uber in the country. Go-Jek claims the issues...
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Baidu’s decline: the key facts
Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab is based in Sunnyvale, California. Photo credit: Tech in Asia. The recent high-profile departures at Chinese search giant Baidu have put a spotlight on the company’s...
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Startup that turns any store into ATM raises fresh angel funding
Photo credit: john6863373 / 123RF. It looks like we just can’t get rid of the old trusty legal tender. SoCash says that, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), cash is still widely...
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Weeloy bags funding to be the only software your restaurant will ever need
Photo credit: gregorylee / 123RF. There’s a glut of startups in Singapore catering to restaurants, seeking to improve their processes and help them with discoverability, reservations, and digitization....
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Alibaba Cloud doubles down on healthcare for its AI business
Photo credit: daizuoxin / 123RF. Alibaba’s cloud computing unit, Alibaba Cloud, has made aggressive overseas expansion one of its top priorities over the past year. At home, however, it’s turning its...
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6 rising startups in India – Mar 30, 2017
Photo credit: Pixabay. India’s highest funded edtech startup, a self-checkout app for retail stores, and an Indian mobile operating system are the stars in today’s roundup of rising startups in India....
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First 100 startups exhibiting at TIA Singapore 2017’s Bootstrap Alley
In less than two months, over 250 international startups will gather under one roof to showcase their novel solutions to 5,000 tech fans at Tech in Asia Singapore 2017. We’ve profiled a couple of them...
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Hong Kong: An Expedia for the shipping industry just raised $25m
Photo credit: 3dmentat / 123RF Stock Photo. Freightos, a Hong Kong-headquartered startup that lets people compare prices and book shipping services, has raised a US$25 million funding round led by GE...
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Motorcycle taxis will face tougher regulation in Indonesia
Photo credit: Grab. Motorcycle taxis are a common sight in Indonesia’s congested cities. Two-wheelers have previously been exempt from the government’s transportation laws, but that could change soon....
View ArticleVideo: Everything new about the Galaxy S8 in 60 seconds
Samsung just dropped the deets on their latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8. After the nightmare that was 2016 for them, Samsung sure seems to be playing it safe this year. Here’s what you can...
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Good news for apps: App Annie predicts consumers will spend 33% more in 2017
Photo credit: manganganath / 123RF. Mobile app data analytics firm App Annie projects a 33 percent growth in consumer spend on apps this year, rising from US$61.8 billion last year to US$82.2 billion...
View ArticleVideo: Watch what happens when drones fly into crash dummies
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Aalborg University recently conducted drone crash tests – not unlike how one would conduct vehicular crash tests. Amongst other things, this involved sending a...
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