Tag "Asia"
Xiaomi spins off POCO as an independent company
Xiaomi said today it is spinning off POCO, a sub-smartphone brand it created in 2018, as a standalone company that will now run independently of
Amazon to invest $1 billion to help digitize small businesses in India
India welcomed Jeff Bezos this week with an antitrust probe. On top of that, thousands of small merchants who typically compete with one another are
Former Google Pay execs raise $13.2M to build neo-banking platform for millennials in India
Two co-founders of Google Pay in India are building a neo-banking platform in the country — and they have already secured backing from three top
Cross-border investments aren’t dead, they’re getting smarter
Yohei Nakajima Contributor Yohei Nakajima is an investor at Scrum Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco, and Senior Vice President at
Over two dozen encryption experts call on India to rethink changes to its intermediary liability rules
Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local
PayU acquires controlling stake in Indian credit business PaySense, to merge it with LazyPay
PayU is acquiring a controlling stake in fintech startup PaySense at a valuation of $185 million and plans to merge it with its credit business
AutoX and Fiat Chrysler are teaming up on a robotaxi for China
Autonomous vehicle startup AutoX, which is backed by Alibaba, said Tuesday that it is partnering with Fiat Chrysler to roll out a fleet of robotaxis
Impossible adds ‘ground pork’ and ‘sausages’ to its lineup of plant-based foods
Impossible Foods made huge waves in the food industry when it came up with a way of isolating and using “heme” molecules from plants to
Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million daily active users
China’s TikTok, which has taken the world by storm, is working its magic in its home nation, too. The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin,
Amazon partners with India’s second largest retailer to sell its goods online
Amazon is deepening its relationship with India’s second largest retail chain, Future Retail, as the e-commerce giant widens its footprint in one of its key
