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A crash course on India’s digital ID: why it has such staunch believers and...
India’s colorful festival of Holi. Photo credit: FaceMePLS. India is in the midst of a digital transformation, with a nudge and a shove from the government. And it’s provoking extreme reactions – from...
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6 rising startups in Japan
After a short delay we’re back with our weekly roundup of funded startups in Japan! Check out our picks for this week. Yoropay by Popshoot Yoropay is an app for taking notes on money borrowed from or...
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Brief: IDG and Sequoia seek stake in China’s biggest bitcoin mining operation
Rows of mining machines for litecoin, another cryptocurrency, in Bitmain’s facility in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Photo credit: Tech in Asia. The news (extracted from Bloomberg): Sequoia Capital and IDG...
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Here’s what you might have missed in Southeast Asian tech
Photo credit: think4photop / 123RF Stock Photo. Grab is back in the headlines with additional GrabPay features, news from its HR department, and a Toyota partnership. Vertex is readying its third fund...
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Brief: China bans ICOs
Wow, indeed. Photo credit: adriantoday / 123RF. The news (extracted from Bloomberg): One of the hottest new waves in tech – startups raising money via a virtual currency – has today been banned...
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Brief: Thai event management startup raises series A
Photo credit: Pixabay. Event Pop is a Thailand-based events management and ticketing startup. It provides a range of services – from customizable web pages for events and digital and physical ticketing...
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5 rising fintech startups PayPal is investing in
Photo credit: 401(K) 2012. PayPal has just announced five young fintech startups as its picks for the fifth batch of its incubation program in India. The digital payments giant will also pick up an...
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These 4 AI startups are changing the way we consume information
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a watchword for scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs as of late. Some, like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, decry the potential apocalypse that undeterred AI...
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Brief: Singapore government merges startup-focused agencies
Photo credit: aiisha5 / 123RF Stock Photo. The news (extracted from Channel NewsAsia): Singapore is merging two government agencies focused on helping local businesses, International Enterprise...
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Brief: Xiaomi and Google launch their jointly developed Android One phone
Xiaomi and Google’s new Mi A1 smartphone. Photo credit: Xiaomi. The news: Xiaomi unveiled its new Mi A1 smartphone in Delhi today. The dual-camera device has been developed in collaboration with Google...
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Wheel of misfortune
This is a graveyard of startup dreams and investor cash: Ride-share startups’ bicycles confiscated from Shanghai’s Jing’an district. Photo credit: ChinaNews. The rows and piles of bicycles, from an...
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UberFlash and UberTaxi launch in Malaysia
Photo credit: Uber Malaysia Uber Malaysia introduced two new services today, UberFlash and UberTaxi, aiming to make it easier for Malaysians to use the ride-hailing app. With UberTaxi, Malaysian taxi...
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Two young investors launch new VC fund for deep tech startups
Vishesh Rajaram (left) and Arjun Rao. Photo credit: Speciale Invest. Vishesh Rajaram used to be a principal investor at VC firm Ventureast, working with its sixth fund of US$100 million. He quit the...
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Video: In China, KFC tests face scan tech
KFC is now trialling a self-order system where customers can pay with their face. This post Video: In China, KFC tests face scan tech appeared first on Tech in Asia.
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Brief: Brick-and-mortar retailer MDS ups investment in sister company...
Hadi Wenas, CEO of MatahariMall (L). Photo credit: Lippo Group. The news (extracted from DealStreetAsia): Indonesian retail firm Matahari Department Store (MDS) has increased its stake in local...
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Chinese ecommerce giant shows off its first ever ‘robot warehouse’
A driverless forklift. Photo credit: Toyota Material Handling. A Chinese tech giant has opened its first fully automated sorting center where robots and machines handle 9,000 online shopping orders per...
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Brief: 500 Startups’ first Myanmar investment grabs more funding
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. Myanmar-based Bindez is a search technology startup with two products: Bindez Insights and Bindez Thanding. Bindez Insights is a social media monitoring tool that helps...
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China’s blockchain industry looks overseas as ICO blanket ban stirs fear
Photo credit: cooldesign / 123RF. China’s cryptocurrency speculators have had one hell of a week. Since the Chinese government’s announcement on Monday banning all token crowdsales – also known as...
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After China ban, Hong Kong mulls ICO clampdown
Photo credit: adriantoday / 123RF. Hong Kong’s financial regulator has warned that the unchecked boom in startups raising money from ordinary people via token sales needs to be controlled. These...
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PolicyStreet pockets $500k to get more Malaysians insured
PolicyStreet’s founding team (from L-R): Wilson Beh, Yen Ming, Winnie Chua, and Jason Lee. Nearly two years ago, Malaysian Lee Yen Ming had an accident he thought could leave him paralyzed for life. He...
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