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India’s NewsHunt App Nearly Outflips Flipboard, Hits 10 Billion Page-Views
印度’s top homegrown news reader app has hit 10 billion page-views, the startup revealed today. NewsHunt was launched in June 2009 and hit the five billion milestone last October. Available on iOS,...
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Rocket Internet Shuts OfficeFab in Southeast Asia, Shifts Focus to India’s...
Rocket Internet has been making a lot of waves in Asia with its e-commerce startups. But just like any startup, the German-based company can also make mistakes and even fail. SGEntrepreneurs reported...
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With $1.1 Million in New Funding, Microlending Platform Milaap Aims to Touch...
Microlending and fundraising platform Milaap has secured a $1.1 million funding round led by Jungle Ventures. With the new money in pocket, Milaap will further develop its platform, do more marketing,...
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新加坡, India-based microlending platform Milaap raises USD 1.1M from investors
Milaap, a Singapore-headquartered and India-based microfunding platform, announced today that it has raised a USD 1.1M venture round led by Jungle Ventures, a Singapore-based early stage fund, with...
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Creator of Android’s Siri-like Iris App Rolls Out 2 New Creations
Trails (離開) and Dialapp (right) want to help you out. Be ready, Android users. The creator of the popular personal analytics app ‘Friday’ 和 Android’s Siri-like app Iris has launched two new Android...
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7 Major Challenges Holding Back Tech Ecosystems Across Asia
Despite the strength and diversity of Asia’s tech ecosystems, there are a lot of problems and peculiarities that hold back these countries’ web industries in some ways. A new report today from The...
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Why are Companies Choosing the Philippines Over India for Outsourcing Services?
Asia has been the prime destination for outsourced jobs over the last couple of years. This has happened because, in Asia, US-based companies can get the services they need at a much more...
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Asian Startups Can Pitch for Up to $1.3 Million at ‘Get in the Ring’ Battle...
Get in the Ring is an investment batttle initiated by Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship from the Netherlands. In this battle, startups – both tech and non-tech – 從 26 countries will pitch and...
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Klip It, Share It: Social Shopping Site Klip.in Gets Seed Funding
India’s e-commerce industry is growing well and maturing nicely, so there are inevitably plenty of sites out there that curate the online shopping experience in a social way. One such place is...
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Property Portal CommonFloor Gets $7.5 Million Funding to Expand Across India
Indian real estate portal CommonFloor has wrapped up its third major funding round, the startup revealed today. The newest injection of capital is worth $7.5 million and comes from existing investors...
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Despite Regulatory Hassles, India’s Healthkart Gets Huge Funding to Expand...
India’s HealthKart sells everything from vitamins to vital medicines via its online portal, but it’s such a heavily regulated and controversial industry that e-payment platforms don’t support online...
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退房最便宜 (最貴) 亞洲國家對於蘋果小工具
Our buddies on the design-oriented Hongkiat blog have done lots of number crunching and figured out the cheapest – 也是最貴的 – nations in Asia when buying 蘋果 gadgets. 本質上, 買蘋果的小工具在中國大陸，這是一個非常糟糕的主意,...
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同 $1.5 Billion in Products To Be Sold This Year, Shopify Gets Serious in Asia
Shopify is one of the world’s largest e-commerce solutions that helps retailers set up their e-stores and sell products online. Today it is powering over 60,000 active stores that have sold over four...
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Shifu Apps Wants to Be Your Non-Nagging, Life-Fulfilling Smartphone Sidekick
If you’ve got an iPhone or an Android smartphone, you’ve probably already got a voice assistant in the form of Siri or Google Now. But they generally only respond to particular inputs. The Indian-made...
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Watch Out Asia, Rocket Internet Reveals It Raised $1.3 Billion So Far This Year
By Steven Millward | 技術在亞洲 An investor at Rocket Internet’s HQ this morning. Germany’s startup dynamo that’s plotting world domination, 火箭互聯網, has netted $500 million – 是, half a billion – in funding...
View ArticlePearson, Village Capital Offer $75,000 Funding to Indian ‘Edupreneurs’
“ Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) and US-based innovative funding firm Village Capital have joined hands to boost and invest in education entrepreneurs that are serving under-privileged...
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Struggling Nokia Sells Only 4.1M Phones in China in Q2, 20.2M Across...
By Steven Millward | 技術在亞洲 How low can Nokia go? Even lower, it seems. According to Nokia’s (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) newly released Q2 2013 financials, Greater China and Asia-Pacific are the two regions...
View ArticleFindYogi Secures Funding To Help Consumers Find Gadgets Online
Over in Bangalore, we haven’t heard that much, but that doesn’t mean the city isn’t churning out interesting startups. FindYogi, a product search engine dedicated to comparing prices for consumer...
View ArticleNoonSwoon Helps Singles in Thailand Meet Their Match Through Facebook Friends
“All the single ladies (and gents), now put your hands up!” Alright, not to go too crazy with Beyonce’s song but if you’re single and in Thailand, Noonswoon is here to help! Noonswoon, an online...
View ArticleIndia’s VentureNursery Takes in 5 New Startups For Its Next Accelerator
We’ve seen two promising Indian startups get seed funding recently and both were graduates of VentureNursery. So the angel-backed startup accelerator is clearly worth watching. VentureNursery’s next...
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