September 8th, 2018Indian software service exporter Infosys Ltd has partnered with Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings for the purpose of accelerating up its Southeast Asia operations and strengthen its skills in the emerging technology space mainly in artificial intelligence. Both the companies will acquire a stake in Singapore-based Trusted...
March 28th, 2018
Facebook’s Vice President of Public Policy for Asia-Pacific, Simon Milner had to appear before a Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods in Singapore where he was questioned by the Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam for almost three hours.
Mr. Milner had to give explanations to Mr. Shanmugam about the...
December 12th, 2017Singapore launched on Tuesday its first large-scale electric car-sharing programme through which the land-scarce city-state hopes to provide commuters with more transport options and steer them away from the need to buy their own cars.
The service, which will be run for a decade by BlueSG, a unit of France’s Bollore Group, is a part...
November 21st, 2017SoftBank Group’s multi-billion dollar investment in Uber Technologies Inc opens up the possibility of combining it with other ride-hailing assets the Japanese group owns in a consolidation of a rapidly growing business across Asia, industry sources say.
Uber Technologies Inc said on Nov. 12 that a planned deal with a consortium led...
October 16th, 2017Amazon.com has infused another amount of $250 million in its Indian based seller operations arm Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd, as per the filings with Registrar of Companies.
Singapore-based group entity Amazon Corporate Holdings and Mauritius-based group entity Amazon.com.incs Limited infused this amount in seller's arm. The...
September 21st, 2017Online travel company Yatra raised a 100 crore venture debt from Temasek backed InnoVen Capitalmarking it India’s largest venture debt transaction yet as per the source Livemint.
This is InnoVen’s second funding in Yatra. The venture debt provider had previously extended $4 million to Yatra in 2013.
“After having raised $92...
October 15th, 2016Crowdfunding is a fresh concept that has emerged as a sustenance for budding creators and innovators to turn their ideas into a corporeality. In the recent years, the crowdfunding industry has grown multifold and has helped crowdfunding projects grow into great business ventures. In the world of small biz, it has become one of the go-to...
August 25th, 2016AP- The world's first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.
Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars...
April 1st, 2016Agarwal Packers and Movers Ltd (APML), India’s leading relocation company opened its first international office in Singapore this month. The Singapore office would facilitate relocation of homes from the country across the globe and support inbound relocations too. Agarwal Packers and Movers ltd. will also be doing local moves within...
February 20th, 2016Google has acquired Singapore-based startup Pie.co, a slack like chat platform. The move behind this acquisition is to bring good engineers from Asia-pacific into Google.
In its blog Google said, According to the UN, 300 million people came online for the first time last year. Put another way, in 2015, there were more people using...
November 19th, 2015Noida and Singapore-based Ed-tech startup, ConveGenius, has raised INR 2 Cr. in a fresh round of funding aided by ‘Enablers’, a web-based platform, connecting and facilitating fundraising transactions between investors and startups.
Founded in 2013 by Jairaj Bhattacharya and Shashank Pandey, alumni of IIIT Hyderabad and the Young...
June 16th, 2015
Sleep Better With Nana
In the ever-evolving world of start-ups, it’s not very often to hear of an Internet of things (IoT) start-up and even rarer is-- the ones heard of are disrupting the health care segment. MNH labs, a Singapore-based start-up, working in the health care segment have added Nana, sleep and vitals monitor, in the...
