The Economist: An amazing infographics from the Economist: how Singapore has become the most developed

CB Insights: Traditional banks are under attack from a number of emerging specialist startups. Here

TECHCRUNCH: The rise of companies like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Ola have put a spotlight on the e-commerce opportunity in India, where the growth of

TECHCRUNCH: Online lending platform Avant has acquired ReadyForZero, a Y Combinator-backed startup that helps consumers better

THE NEXT WEB: While Amazon has worked hard to promote its Android app store, let’s

THE NEXT WEB: A big hurdle has been overcome by Amazon today for a future where everything’s

DEALSTREETASIA: Russia’s economic slump is set to boost the fledgling financial services technology (Fintech) startup ecosystem

WIRED: Virgin is working on electric cars and could one day take on Tesla, according to

TECHCRUNCH: Amazon’s VP and General Manager of Payments, Matt Swann, who most recently oversaw initiatives including Amazon’s Square

BLOOMBERG: John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, recently co-authored a paper in the Journal

MASHABLE: Elon Musk offered a classic example of what journalists call “burying the lede.” He

E27.CO: China’s iMaibo, a stock market app, has grown from 10,000 to 100,000 active daily

BITCOIN MAGAZINE: IBM and Intel establish departments on blockchain technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies  

WIRED: Following yesterday’s announcement that the UK games industry will receive an £8m boost as part

TECHCRUNCH: Fundbox, a company that loans businesses money for outstanding invoice payments, has raised $40 million to

DEALSTREETASIA: Asia joined the world’s most funded regions for the fintech industry in 2014, with

IT WORLD CANADA: Due to skills mismatch, demand-supply imbalances, an aging workforce and other factors, Canada

Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner of Life.SREDA VC, highlights ten most interesting trends of 2014 year

TECHINASIA: Messaging app WeChat now has 500 million monthly active users (MAUs), parent company Tencent

WIRED UK:  The government has announced its intention to apply anti-money laundering regulation to digital currency

TECHCRUNCH: When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill, Facebook doesn’t

WIRED: We’ve been saying it for a while and now John Maeda has delivered the

E27.CO: Global online ticketing platform Peatix has raised US$5 million in Series B funding led by DG

TECHCRUNCH: Rakuten, Japan’s largest online retail firm, has announced that it will soon accept bitcoin across

Channel NewsAsia: Xiaomi has added a function that allows users to buy money market fund

FAST COMPANY: Think you’re not creative? The innovation gurus at Ideo beg to differ. The

FAST COMPANY: Mark Zuckerberg recommends Ed Catmull’s “Creativity, Inc.” (available in the Life.SREDA’s corporate library

TECHCRUNCH: Thanks to startups like Simple, which was acquired by financial services organization BBVA last year,

TECHINASIA: Yesterday at Cebit in Hanover, Alibaba founder Jack Ma took the stage to wax philosophical

TECHCRUNCH: Wiper, a chat application designed to provide users with control over their sent and received