REUTERS: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and its finance affiliate accelerated a drive to be

E27.CO: The 90-day accelerator’s first batch of 20-30 startups will kick off in September, with investments

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

TECHINASIA: Stripe may be making its way to the Singapore market, if certain reports from local entrepreneurs

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

TECHCRUNCH:  It’s no surprise that Vietnam is being talked about as an alternative, amid rising costs and attrition

E27.CO: With the rising trend of co-working, remote work, and “workation” retreats, entrepreneurial Millennials from

TECHCRUNCH:  China’s e-commerce, m-commerce and payments lead the world. It is the largest e-commerce market (KPMG), and is

E27.CO:  It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur in Singapore. Never in the history of our

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

FORBES.COM:  Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, died last week at age 91.

E27.CO:  Singapore-based venture builder platform Hatcher has announced the launch of the Hatcher Fund, an early-stage venture fund with

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: When the venture-capital fund of Li Ka-shing, Asia’s richest man, hosted a gathering of

DEALSTREETASIA: For all of its challenges, there are compelling reasons to evaluate Bitcoin, a relatively

DEALSTREETASIA: Startup company Pawnhero will be representing the Philippines in the upcoming Echelon Asia Summit 2015, after

TECHINASIA: Venture capital firms have entered Singapore in droves, which means internet startups here can look

FINOVATE: Advanced Merchant Payments (AMP), a company that provides banks technology to offer loans to their small

E27.CO:  The initiative will start with a roadshow spanning four cities in April and culminate

TECHINASIA: Facebook woke up the internet industry when it announced that its popular Messenger app, one of

E27.CO: Bangalore-based Artoo IT Solutions, a startup that offers customer relationship management solution to banks and financial

InvestHK Bimonthly Newsletter: The regular InvestHK’s newsletter covers Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary John Tsang’s budget speech,

FORBES: How a Russian investor Yuri Milner established his “gold-mining machine” (firm DST) and why he

The Independent: Lee Kuan Yew has passed away. He is the man who established Singapore,

DEALSTREETASIA: Early-stage fund Golden Gate Ventures (GGV) has upped its game in the venture capital space

E27.CO: Echelon Indonesia to discuss measures needed to boost e-commerce in the island nation. Here’s what

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

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

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