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Video: This electric car is Lit
This electric car is totally Wait… I mean it’s the Lit Motors C-1. With two wheels aided by clever self-balancing tech, it makes comfortable, car-like travel a lot more compact. This post Video: This...
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Bigo competitor BeLive kicks off in Singapore after $1.5m seed round
Co-founders Lim Kim Hui (L) and Kenneth Tan. Photo credit: BeLive. When Bigo launched in March last year, the app quickly rose to dominate video live streaming in Southeast Asia. Similar to Periscope,...
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4 rising startups in India – April 9, 2017
Photo credit: lucato / 123RF. Real estate and food startups have seen a lot of turmoil lately. But they continue to attract funding, although investors have become choosier. A Paytm-backed health tech...
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21 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. RedDoorz | Singapore...
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Rakuten invests $2.8m in Singapore-based serviced apartment startup
Photo credit: MetroResidences. Singapore-based serviced apartment MetroResidences today announced it’s all set for expansion to key Asian business cities after raising US$2.8 million in series A...
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Last Week in Tech: Samsung’s comeback, Yahoo’s new parent company, and more...
Photo credit: AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas Samsung bounces back from exploding smartphones, Uber isn’t the only company grappling with questionable leadership, and what exactly is Oath? Welcome to Last Week...
View ArticleVideo: These security robots can patrol for 20 hours non-stop
Meet SMP Robotics’Robot Guard. The “autonomous robot security system” has a whole host of high-tech wizardry that lets it keep a watchful eye over your business’ grounds. Most importantly, it can yell...
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This startup just raised $1.2m to improve its automated sales assistant
Photo credit: jirsak / 123RF. Saleswhale, a Singapore-based startup specializing in automated sales assistants, has raised a seed round worth US$1.2 million, it announced today. Gree Ventures led the...
View ArticleVideo: Entrepreneurship, according to Groupon’s former CEO
Adapted from the Jay Kim Show’s 8th episode, go-getter entrepreneur Danny Yeung shares what he’s learnt over the years in 4 lessons. This post Video: Entrepreneurship, according to Groupon’s former CEO...
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She made history as India’s first female founder of a billion-dollar company
When ShopClues broke into the ranks of India’s unicorn startups in January 2016, it made history in not just one, but two ways: Radhika Aggarwal, the sole female among the trio of co-founders behind...
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Brief: Find out how robot-proof you are in your job
Photo credit: Pixabay. The Financial Times has made an interactive calculator that helps you figure out which parts of your job can be automated. The calculator is based on McKinsey Global Institute’s...
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Virtual gaming items marketplace Itemku raises $1.2m but legal issues persist
Photo credit: Wikimedia. Five Jack, the South Korea-based company that operates a marketplace for virtual goods in Indonesia, today announced it raised US$1.2 million in series A investment from 500...
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It’s official. Flipkart raises $1.4 billion from Tencent, eBay, Microsoft
Binny Bansal (left) and Sachin Bansal are the two co-founders of India’s top homegrown ecommerce company Flipkart. Photo credit: Flipkart. After months of speculation about an impending fund-raise,...
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Chatbots, after half a century, are starting to lose their scripts
Photo credit: Pexels/Pixabay. Apps are on the decline, but messaging apps buck the trend. They are now bigger than social networks. In India, less than 2 percent of its billion-plus mobile users are...
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How ecommerce players survive the shopping rush
Photo credit: gregorylee / 123RF. China’s Singles Day saw US$17.7 billion worth of sales in just 24 hours. Greater accessibility of and trust in imports are driving the growth of booming ecommerce...
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Opinion: How the latest $1.4b Flipkart funding changes the ecommerce game in...
A poster of action drama 300. There’s more to Flipkart’s US$1.4 billion funding by Tencent, Microsoft, and eBay than just the biggest capital infusion into any Indian internet company so far. The...
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Opinion: It’s curtains for India’s oldest ecommerce player, eBay
Photo credit: Pixabay. The US$1.4 billion funding of Flipkart, announced today, includes an investment from eBay as well as a merger of eBay India’s business with Flipkart in exchange for equity. This...
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With fresh funding, Inc. doubles down on Southeast Asia
Photo credit: Pixabay. Inc. Southeast Asia, a version of the almost 40-year-old business publication Inc., launched in early 2016 to cover the regional entrepreneurial beat. Now the company behind the...
View ArticleVideo: The entrepreneur plotting Hong Kong’s first billion-dollar startup
Even in an age where prepaid mobile broadband SIM cards are readily available to tourists, there are still plenty of things to fumble around with. Here’s how Terence Kwok’s startup, Handy, offers an...
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10 sales & biz dev job openings this week!
Looking for sales and business development opportunities? 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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