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

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

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

TECHINASIA: Cash remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have proven to be a crucial lifeline for

TECHINASIA: The lack of venture capital against the background of increased demand for it may

E27.CO: Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata has made an undisclosed amount of investment in

TECHCRUNCH: Paytm, a India-based mobile payments service operated by (now) Alibaba-backed One97, has introduced a big new

TECHINASIA: As smartphone usage booms across Asia and web services become more commonplace, private equity firms

E27.CO: DBS Chief Innovation Officer Neal Cross tells it like it is in an exclusive interview

BLOOMBERG: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to invest in Snapchat Inc., the mobile application for sending

TECHCRUNCH: Snapchat, one of the ten most popular instant messengers in the world, has raised

TECHINASIA:  Cloud-based billing platform ChargeBee has just announced its series B funding round of US$5 million led by

E27.CO: Among heavyweight financial hubs Hong Kong and Shanghai, Singapore takes the top spot as the ecosystem most

TECHCRUNCH: Twitter may be blocked in mainland China, but there is still plenty of money to

TECHINASIA:  Last week, the Singapore government issued new laws that will allow drivers to receive payments

E27.CO: The startup aims to make transactions simpler by offering easy multi-currency management.  Tofupay is

TECHINASIA: It’s official: Twitter has arrived in Jakarta and opened an office space in the 15th

FORBES: How KakaoTalk’s founder ignited a global messaging war. Kim Beom-Su, the son of a

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COMPUTER WORLD: The Hong Kong government will be offering financial assistance to technology startups with its

BUDGET SPEECH: Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary John C Tsang in his budget speech has announced

THE ASIAN BANKER: Maybank has partnered with Maxis Berhad to launch the Maybank mPOS service which