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Alibaba makes its move in Indonesia, partners Emtek on mobile payments
Photo credit: Alibaba. Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group’s global payments chess game continues as it announced in a release that its payments subsidiary Ant Financial has locked in a partnership...
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Sexual harassment charge filed against another Indian digital media site’s...
Photo credit: Pixabay. The Mumbai police have registered a complaint of sexual harassment against Suparn Pandey, CEO and co-founder of Indian digital media site ScoopWhoop, reports Catch News. Like...
View ArticleVideo: The world’s first braille smartwatch is now available for pre-order
After close to three years of product development, the folks behind Dot Watch, the world’s first braille smartwatch, are ready to accept pre-orders. Here’s how Dot will help the visually impaired...
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Brief: Jeff Bezos’ recipe to prevent Amazon’s death
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon. Photo credit: Steve Jurvetson. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in his annual letter to shareholders, outlined his philosophy for keeping the ecommerce giant spry and...
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Brief: Baidu acquires acquires xPerception to boost its computer vision tech
Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab is based in Sunnyvale, California. Photo credit: Tech in Asia. The Chinese search giant announced today its acquisition of xPerception, a US-based computer vision startup...
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10 latest marketing jobs this week!
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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Favstay gets funding to battle Airbnb in Thailand’s tourism boom
Koh Toa, Thailand. Photo credit: basketman23 / 123RF. Thailand saw a record high number of foreign visitors – 32.6 million – in 2016, which is important as tourists account for 10 percent of the...
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Brief: Muslim fashion marketplace raises funds from 500 Startups, others, at...
Ben Soebiakto, one of Muslimarket’s co-founders, is also co-founder of Kapanlagi. Muslimarket closed a series A round of funding at a valuation of around US$10 million, the startup told Dealstreet...
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ASX-listed iCandy acquires Singaporean gaming studio
Gerald Tock, CEO of Inzen Studio (L), and investor Masahiko Honma, at Pixel Studios. Mobile games company iCandy Interactive, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:ICI), has fully acquired...
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Google forays into food delivery and home services in India with new app, Areo
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. Now, Google wants to be your offline handyman as well in India. It has quietly launched a new hyperlocal shopping app, Areo, which will help you order food, home maintenance...
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Startup101: Setting the stage for success
A successful startup is more than just a brilliant product brimming with innovation. It takes a holistic approach to grow your startup into a scalable business, which is easier said than done if you’re...
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This Filipino startup raised a $2.5m seed round to help small businesses grow
A street vendor in the Philippines. Photo credit: PROBrian Evans. First Circle, a fintech startup based in the Philippines, raised US$1.3 million in venture capital from Accion Venture Lab and Deep...
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Brief: Uber returns to Taiwan, but it’s not the same as before
Image uses photo from Pexels. Two months after suspending its service in Taiwan, Uber is returning to the island, the US-based startup announced today. Rather than allowing any car owner to make money...
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Brief: SoftBank pumps US$250 million more into Ola
Ola co-founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal. Photo credit: Tech in Asia. SoftBank has pumped US$250 million into Ola, Uber’s Indian rival, documents filed with the Registrar of Companies reveal. Tech in...
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Stayzilla founder gets out of jail after 30 days
Stayzilla co-founder and CEO Yogendra Vasupal (second from right) after his release from jail. Photo credit: HelpYogi. Yogendra Vasupal, co-founder and CEO of Stayzilla, which shut down a couple of...
View ArticleVideo: Lucid threatens Tesla with high-speed competition
There are no shortage of car startups looking to take on Tesla and the Germans with a luxury electric sedan, but Lucid is arguably one of the most credible. The California-based, China-funded outfit...
View ArticleVideo: Google’s AI helps you draw a decent picture
Google this week rolled out Autodraw, an AI-powered tool that turns your scribbled drawings into decent pictures that you could use, say, as clip art. This post Video: Google’s AI helps you draw a...
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How this pharmacist-turned-VC is piping money from the Middle East to...
Ahmed Shabana, founder or Parkpine Capital, prefers to keep it casual. Photo Credit: Ahmed Shabana. Ahmed Shabana can spot an opportunity. In 2006, while still in university in Cairo, he took his...
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Brief: Uber’s revenue hits $6.5b in 2016, still losing $2.8b
Photo credit: Freestocks.org Uber has revealed that its revenue growth has outpaced losses, and that it still has enough cash reserves to tide through years of unprofitability. The ride-hailing giant...
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Brief: Singapore admits Smart Nation moving too slowly
Photo credit: doe5999 / 123RF Stock Photo. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently said that the country’s Smart Nation initiative isn’t moving as fast as expected. “We really are not going...
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