Tech in Asia

Collaboration between startups and academe can create tremendous opportunities for both parties

Cowlar is the second Pakistani startup to be accepted into Y Combinator after Markhor

Earlier in January, Jack Ma met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of World Economic Forum in Davos

Lumos will go on to present its product at Silicon Valley’s HardwareCon next month

They yearn for an alternative voice that’s hip, trendy, and has a human-oriented approach

All the developers who get hired will be placed in Dubai and Berlin

Weibo is still gaining new users fast while Twitter stagnates

Three models will be available initially

The greatest desire of digital workers was to be paid instantly

The fintech startup democratizes access to gold purchases

The healthtech startup’s products are available in 26 countries

GharPar provides on-demand beauticians in Pakistan with the goal of improving the lives of marginalized communities

Pakistan is the fourth-largest country on the Asian continent

Careem’s Mudassir Sheikha explains why growth needs to be an obsession for any motivated founder

Islamabad-based Invest2Innovate (i2i) says 23 per cent of youth want to start their own businesses

Nexar use turns your phone into a collision warning system, making your car a lot smarter

396 million people across Asia use Facebook each day

Just as Vodafone is merging with rival Idea to take on 4G giant Jio

Ayesha Khanna used her training in data science to teach girls the skills of the future

The decision to centralize operations for ecommerce marketplace Daraz Group in Pakistan will remain unaffected

VPN is our best bet now

Sarmayacar recently poured US$200,000 into music streaming app Patari

The wealthy Gulf city has long been viewed as a hub of business and commerce in the Middle East region

Hugo was vice president of Xiaomi’s international business

SheSkills is launching the first of what it hopes to be many digital skills bootcamps aimed at women

Rocket plans to invest its funds in startups focused on marketplaces, ecommerce, fintech, software, and travel

Passion Peers founder Kanika Agarwal shares 25 lessons she learned from living the life of a CEO

Entrepreneurial giant Gary Vaynerchuk talks about the most important aspect of being an entrepreneur

A McKinsey Global Institute study across 50 countries finds a potential impact of automation on 1.1 billion workers.

With its newest feature, WeChat wants you never to download or install another app

Ezyhaul is planning to expand to more markets soon

Add2Store wants to build a marketplace where it can connect large companies with individual sellers

Tencent chose to use “mini programs” because Apple would not permit the use of the word “app”

Baidu is confident its AI bot has the savvy to do well in its tough TV tests

Chromo app analysis smartphone user’s screen touches and quantifies them into different emotions

Here’s why 2017 could be Southeast Asia’s year

Malaysia-based VAV secures over US$550,000 from Axiata Digital Innovation Fund

It’s clearer than ever that the Muslim market has a potential for incredible growth

A big challenge for migrant workers is access to cheap banking and financial services

BHIM uses the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) launched in April to simplify money transfer between bank

Twitter’s exodus of senior executives continues as Kathy Chen departs on final day of 2016

He raised US$7 million without telling investors what they were investing in

Simplify is a peer-to-peer mobile internet service that wants to make sure you never buy overpriced SIM cards again

Shezhen was a small fishing town three decades ago

Gartner predicts more than 268 billion app downloads in 2017

Technical skills are rarely enough to nab you the job

Here’s a blow-by-blow comparison of Uber and its top competitor in Pakistan

Mudassir Sheikha has propelled Careem into global stardom

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