October 15th, 2018The founder and executive chairman of China’s largest e-commerce company Jack Ma is reportedly planning to open an institute to train thousands of tech entrepreneurs in Indonesia.
However, he did not mention when Jack Ma Institute of Entrepreneurs would launch. The aim behind this move is to train 1,000 tech leaders a year over...
May 23rd, 2018OYO, the leading hotel aggregator, has taken a huge step towards expansion, after opening hotels in China and Indonesia making it one of the few Indian consumer technology companies expanding businesses in the world’s second largest economy.
The developments come only eight months after the Gurugram-headquartered company raised $10...
May 9th, 2018The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that India will be the fastest-growing major economy in 2018, with a growth rate of 7.4 percent that rises to 7.8 percent in 2019 with medium-term prospects remaining positive.
The Report on Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook said that the country is recovering from...
April 14th, 2018The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has officially announced that it is reviewing the eligibility of India, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia in the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) based on "concerns about the countries" compliance programme.
GSP is by far the largest and most ancient US trade programme designed to favor...
November 17th, 2017ndonesia has warned Google and Twitter, world's largest social-media providers to block pornographic content in its country of face the blockage.
Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and a host of companies have been put on notice by Indonesian Communications Minister Rudiantara, who threatened “all platforms” that if they...
November 7th, 2017Indonesia has dropped a threat to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp Messenger because the service had responded to concerns over obscene content, an official at the communications ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry vowed on Monday to block WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene Graphics...
November 6th, 2017Indonesia on Monday vowed to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images were removed.
WhatsApp, which is widely used in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, said message encryption prevented it from monitoring...
September 27th, 2016Indonesia's based food and grocery delivery startup GO-JEK has acquired Bangalore based Pianta, a marketplace for home healthcare services, for an undisclosed sum. Post the acquisition, Pianta's eight member team will merge with GO-JEK's engineering centre in Bangalore.
Founded in 2010, GO-JEK has over two lakh motorbike taxis,...
November 22nd, 2015Is Asia developing towards mobile, or away from it? Three numbers from the Google-TNS Asia Pacific Mobile App Usage Study suggest an answer: as it expands, it will move towards mobile, not away from it.
The study asked people from across Asia about how they used their apps, revealing how central mobile has become to Asia’s daily...
September 1st, 2015Healthcare startup Practo today said it has forayed into the Indonesian market with its product, 'Practo Search'. Practo has a presence in India, Philippines and Singapore and has a team of 1,500 employees.
Indonesians will be able to search for over 4,200 verified doctors in over 60 percent of all clinics across Jakarta DKI, using...
