SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asia’s Grab on Tuesday launched Grab Ventures, its innovation arm to develop technology start-ups in sectors such as transport, food services, logistics and financial services, further expanding beyond ride-hailing. Grab, which Read more…
After six months of intense work, the team Agncy was announced the winner of the fifth annual Telenor Youth Forum for their platform that crowdsources labor violation reporting. Tackling UN Sustainable Development Goal #10, their Read more…
Alibaba, SenseTime and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) have launched the HKAI Lab, a nonprofit initiative that aims to advance AI R&D and empower start-ups to commercialize their new inventions. Alibaba Hong Kong Read more…
NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Beijing’s unquenchable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of “accelerators” in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising start-ups and bring them to China. The surge Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group chief executive Masayoshi Son, founder of the world’s largest private equity fund, said on Tuesday a second Vision Fund would be set up in the near future, with funds from Read more…
Sharing economy apps make use of mobile voice calls, but users don’t like sharing their private number with strangers. Solution: telcos can provide disposable cloud numbers for such apps. The seamless transition between digital apps Read more…
Singtel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise have launched Innovation Cyber Security Ecosystem at Block 71 (ICE71), billed as Singapore’s first integrated regional cyber security hub to spawn and support early stage and growing start-ups, entrepreneurs and Read more…
(Reuters) – Andrew Ng, who formerly led artificial intelligence projects at Google and Chinese firm Baidu, has raised a $175 million fund to invest in AI startups, starting with one of his own aimed at Read more…
Grab has acquired Bangalore-based payments startup iKaaz with the aim of leveraging iKaaz’ mobile payments platform to accelerate feature development and partner integration of Grab’s own payments platform, GrabPay. Grab plans to expand across all Read more…
Sri Lankan operator Dialog Axiata announced the launch of the Digital Innovation Fund, the country’s first digital venture capital fund to exclusively focus on financially supporting Sri Lankan digital startups. The fund, initiated and anchored Read more…
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