TechNode

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Chinas Changan Automobile on Tuesday signed an agreement with Thailands Board of Investment in Beijing to build a $241.7 million electric vehicle factory in the countrys coastal Rayong province, the latest development by Chinese automakers to expand their reach in the global car market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind , which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and globally. The Series D funding, which brings its total funding to date to approximately $91.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Payfazz and Xfers , two startups that want to increase financial inclusion in Southeast Asia, announced today they have joined forces to create a new holding entity called Fazz Financial Group. Kwik will serve as Fazz Financial Group’s group CEO, while Liu will be the financial entity’s deputy CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2021, however, it plans to use its Series C to speed up the pace of its expansion, launching in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, mainland China, Australia and Turkey before entering markets in Europe and the United States, too. It also has another algorithm that displays the most viewed articles based on gender and age groups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Eat Just’s current distribution partners in Asia include SPC Samlip in South Korea, Betagro in Thailand and an as-of-yet undisclosed new partner in China, where Just Egg is already available on Alibaba’s Tmall and JD.com. Its investors include Khosla Ventures and Li Ka-Shing. billion through July of this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Shimizu told TechCrunch that the company had businesses in Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines before the COVID pandemic but has temporarily pulled back. Business messaging platform Gupshup raises $240 million from Tiger Global, Fidelity and others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Nikhilesh Goel , co-founder and Group CEO of Validus, told TechCrunch that Validus expects to create synergies with the loan portfolio of CitiBusiness, Citi Singapore’s small banking unit. Goel also said that the deal will be financed through a securitization facility Validus is arranging with a number of global financial institutions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Countries around the world examine Singapore’s ecosystem from a distance, hoping to learn from, and emulate, its story.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A senior executive at Chinas Ant Group expected digitalization driven by innovative technologies to become a key factor during the post-pandemic recovery, especially the prosperity of SMEs, while also reducing financial exclusion and enhancing data security. million SMEs in Thailand, which accounts for roughly 44% of the countrys GDP.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Last week, Intellect announced a strategic investment from IHH Healthcare , Asia’s largest private healthcare group. Now Thoughtfull , another digital mental health platform focused on Asia, has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Sheares Healthcare Group. Sheares is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The round was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from strategic investor MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), a venture capital firm for collaborations between startups and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Tinvio’s last funding announcement was a $5.5 million seed round in April 2020.

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TechNode

JULY 5, 2024

BYD said on Thursday it has produced its eight millionth electric vehicle, just three months after producing its seven millionth unit globally at its Jinan factory in eastern China in March and three years after reaching its first millionth unit mark in mid-2021. TechNode reporting, BYD announcement , in Chinese]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Alpha Wave Global (which co-led the last round under its previous brand , Falcon Edge Capital) is leading this Series G, with participation from other existing investors. “In Australia and the Emirates, it’s been about getting a good global supply of cars,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Glorang will use the Series A to expand its service to Japan and Malaysia by the fourth quarter of this year and Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in the following years, Hwang said. Outschool, newly profitable, raises a $45M Series B for virtual small group classes. It also plans to increase its headcount. . billion in 2027 , from $17.6

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Shares of China’s largest bubble tea and drinks chain, Mixue Group, jumped more than 47% in their debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday, with new listings in the city recording their strongest start to a year since 2021. Scott Murdoch, Reuters

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Co-founders Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan both grew up in food families from Taiwan and Thailand, respectively, and met a decade ago while working at the same tech company. The global instant noodle space is projected to be a $32 billion industry by 2027, with $7.7 The company announced Tuesday that it raised $3.8

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TechNode

JUNE 25, 2024

Why it matters: The news comes as Malaysia surpassed Thailand to become the second biggest car market in the region after Indonesia in the first three months of this year, according to sales figures released by industry groups and compiled by Nikkei.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. Uganda was the first African country the pair decided to test out their two-wheel ride-hailing ambitions and it was the second market globally after Thailand for Uber.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The rest of the round came from investors including iGlobe Partners, Alkemi, Global Brain, KDV and Infocom. The company now has a team of 300 people and aside from its Singapore headquarters, also has a tech and engineering hub in Gurgoan, India, and other offices in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It also included returning investors CDIB Capital, Darwin Ventures, Accuvest, Sanput Travel Group and CSV Venture Fund, which is jointly managed by NEC Capital Solutions and Venture Labo Investment. Within two months, our return for takeaway was almost the same as dine-in revenue,” said co-founder and chief global strategist CC Chang.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

It just may take a little more effort to uncover them, as the total population of engineers is so much larger than the highly concentrated group in the Valley. Engineers and product folks there tend to know how to build products suitable for their respective market, but not necessarily something that can take off globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

And, if your nonprofit does not have a video camera to create content, sign up to get a free one from the Flip Video Camcorder Giveaway , in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative. OpenPlans is a platform for social activism to bring groups together to promote causes, make plans, and get things done. Fundraising 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Fostering financial inclusion A 2022 report by research firm DinarStandard and fintech Ellipses estimates that the market size of Islamic fintech in the Organisation of Islamic Coorporation (OIC) countries was $79 billion in 2021, making up 0.83% of global fintech transaction volume. CAGR by 2026, outpacing traditional fintech’s 13.5%

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Forum One

AUGUST 18, 2008

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. Canada, Australia and Asia.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. questions surrounding globalization and social justice.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. David Evan Harris - Global Lives. Windy founded D.V.A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). ND-Burma, a Thailand-based coalition of over ten human rights groups, has been collecting narrative testimonies from victims and witnesses of human rights abuses by the Burmese regime.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

The global economy had become, almost overnight, a topsy-turvy gray market — something Kaplan knew a lot about. He learned which regions in Thailand, Malaysia, and China had all the glove factories. Then, by chance, The Wall Street Journal mentioned one of Kaplan’s Telegram groups in an article about shortages. What’s going on?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2021

Ford is unlike a lot of our competitors, we didn’t really shrink our global footprint. So we’re still a very large company in Australia and Thailand and South Africa. We are the dominant player globally. They won’t expect that, they won’t tell you they need that in a focus group. There’s such big datasets.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The country is now fifth-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas globally. To survive, he is moving to Thailand and already scouting potential locations for a new fish farm. The country was the fastest growing data center market in Asia Pacific in the first half of 2024, according to global real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump , Reddit banned The_Donald , YouTube banned a group of far-right creators , and India banned TikTok. there needs to be much more enforcement in the area of hate speech,” Luis Di Como, Unilever’s executive vice president of global media, said.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 6, 2025

That year, 12 boys and their soccer coach became trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. This is what he tried to do in his Twitter takeover and, in a sense, it’s what he’s trying to do at DOGE by attacking progressive institutions like nonprofit groups, universities, the media, and the “deep state.”

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