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Rakuten Announces Accelerator Program, Powered by Techstars
Rakuten, a global innovation leader headquartered in Tokyo, and Techstars, a worldwide network aimed at helping entrepreneurs succeed, announced today the launch of Rakuten Accelerator powered by Techstars. The three-month mentorship-driven Rakuten Accelerator is aimed at providing innovative startup companies
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Southeast Asia on track to realizing $200 billion internet economy by 2025
In last year’s “e-Conomy 2025 Southeast Asia” report, Google and Temasek examined the incredible growth in Southeast Asia’s internet economy. Fast forward 18 months later, it turns out that Southeast Asia’s internet economy growth has exceeded expectations. The region’s internet
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Multi-Million Dollar Venture Capital Fund focused on Asian PropTech launched
Michelle Yong might be better known in the startup community as the co-founder of innovation-focused co-working space, Collision8. But wearing her other hat as Director of Aurum, a subsidiary of construction conglomerate Woh Hup, fourth-generation business leader Michelle has made
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Alipay Kicks Off “Double 12” Global Shopping Festival in Southeast Asia
Alipay, the world’s largest online, mobile payments and lifestyle platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, kicked off its 2017 “Double 12” Global Shopping Festival in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Globally, “Double 12” will be seen in
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Top 10 Must-Read IoT Books
IOT Books Must Read: The Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to the networking of physical objects through the use of embedded sensors, actuators, and other devices that can collect or transmit information about the objects, is growing at a
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Australian Stock Exchange using Distributed Ledger Technology
ASX announces its intention to replace CHESS using distributed ledger technology (DLT) developed by its technology partner Digital Asset (DA). CHESS (Clearing House Electronic Subregister System) is the system used by ASX to record shareholdings and manage the clearing and
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Coinbase Conclusion of traffic and scaling; December 6th-7th Post Mortem
Over the past week, Coinbase has continued to invest significant resources into scaling our backend systems to provide a reliable customer experience during periods of high traffic. Despite these efforts to scale, the continued rise of legitimate user traffic leads
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8 New Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Books to Learn Bitcoin and more
Cryptocurrencies have surged in value and popularity this year. This month, the combined market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies reached all-time high levels of more than US$445 billion this month. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, has recently soared above US$16,000. The cryptocurrency
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Top IOT Books
IOT Must Read Books featured by IOT News Asia. The Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to the networking of physical objects through the use of embedded sensors, actuators, and other devices that can collect or transmit information about the
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Mobile Payment India : Federal Bank Partners With MatchMove for Digitizing Payments
Federal Bank, a leading private sector bank in India, partners with MatchMove India Pvt Ltd to digitise rollout of employee reward systems. MatchMove Partner Card Program will help in replacing the existing systems prevailing in various companies for fringe benefits
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