TECHCRUNCH: Payments continue to be a huge issue in many parts of Asia and emerging markets. That’s why 2C2P,

TECHINASIA: Freelancer, the Australia-based platform that connects freelancing professionals with small businesses around the world, today

TECHINASIA: Restaurant management software-as-a-service startup Keru Cloud today announced it has secured RMB 66 million (US$10.7 million) in series B

TECHINASIA:  Peer-to-peer lending startup Jimubox has just secured $84 million in series C funding. It comes seven months

FINOVATE:  The alternative lending sector, especially in China, is soaking up funds at an unprecedented

E27.CO: On the sidelines of LetsIgnite (an event organised for angel investors in India by online deal-making platform

TECHCRUNCH: Here comes some more funding for a European financial tech company specialising in online loans.

TECHCRUNCH: Time to make way for another startup juggernaut out of the financial world. Funding Circle — a London-based peer-to-peer platform

TECHINASIA: Alibaba is continuing its foray into entertainment with a US$134 million purchase of Yueke Software

DEALSTREETASIA: Singapore-based startup  TradeGecko, a B2B web-based inventory and order management software provider for independent brands and

TECHCRUNCH: CompareAsiaGroup, which runs websites that help users find financial services, has raised a $40 million

TECHCRUNCH: Online health insurance for small businesses platform SimplyInsured has raised a total of $1.75

LeapRate: The new $12 million round of funding provided to eToro represents the very first investment

TECHCRUNCH: VCs continue to plough money into money transfer/currency exchange startups in Europe. This time

TECHCRUNCH: It feels like Number26 opened its doors yesterday, but the young startup just raised a $10.6 million

TECHCRUNCH: Slack, the popular workplace communication and collaboration startup from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield — is

E27.CO: Zomato, the online restaurant guide, has acquired MaplePOS, a cloud-based point of sale product for restaurants

TECHCRUNCH: Acorns, the micro-investment app that sets up a portfolio for you by collecting your spare

E27.CO: Philippine startup Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) has acquired BuyBitcoin.ph, the first Philippine Bitcoin exchange in the

TECHINASIA: Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek has acquired SVB India Finance, the largest provider of debt financing to

TECHINASIA: Barely five months after raising US$60 million, restaurant finder app Zomato has swallowed another US$50 million in

TECHCRUNCH: Professional network LinkedIn is getting into the professional skills education market in a big

TECHCRUNCH: FreeAgent, the cloud-based accounting software startup that targets freelancers and so-called “micro-businesses”, for which it

WIRED: Online peer-to-peer lending platforms have surged in popularity by connecting people who want to borrow

TECHCRUNCH: The rise of e-commerce in India has triggered a wave of startups that are

Techcrunch: Snapdeal, the SoftBank- and eBay-backed online commerce company in India, has completed what it called

TOFLER: For the past few weeks, speculation has been rife that Russian Venture Capitalist Yuri Milner’s

TECHCRUNCH: Cloud-based payroll processing startup ZenPayroll has closed on a $60 million Series B round,

TECHCRUNCH: Two months after making its first investment in Israel, Alibaba is digging deeper into the

E27.CO: Indian online marketplace Snapdeal has  announced its foray into financial services with the acquisition of a