TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Since launching with 10 restaurants in its home city in 2015, five years on Wolt has expanded to 23 countries and 120 cities, mostly in Europe but also including Japan and Israel. We started with an exclusive focus on the restaurant, as it’s the biggest local service with an underlying high-frequency use case,” he says. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

million from Z Venture Capital , the corporate venture capital wholly owned by Z Holdings , which also owns the Japanese messaging app Line and internet portal Yahoo Japan. Akros just raised $2.3 Akros intends to strengthen strategic ties with Z Holdings via strategic investment, the startup said.

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TechNode

APRIL 10, 2025

Navigate Local Markets Deepen your understanding of local cultures, consumer demands, and competitive landscapescritical for successful global expansion. Learn how industry pioneers and emerging startups are creating new business models, technologies, and opportunities you can leverage.

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DataRobot

JUNE 1, 2022

Showcasing the industry’s most innovative use of AI, this global event offers you the opportunity to learn from DataRobot data scientists—as well as AI pioneers from retailers like Shiseido Japan Co., Join the virtual event sessions in your local time across Asia-Pacific, EMEA, and the Americas. views AI as a strategic business asset.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Mental health startup Intellect ’s ambitious goal is to be available across the Asia-Pacific, but ensure localized, culturally-competent care in each of the many markets it serves. Though it has a consumer app, the company primarily takes a B2B2C model, with companies offering it as an employee benefit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

With the latest funding, Peeba plans to double its headcount and expand local offices to improve local language support across 11 Asia countries. Lai said its localization effort isn’t just focused on supporting multiple languages. The platform brings both emerging and traditional brands to the world of local retail in Asia.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Its customer base started in Southeast Asia, before expanding into China, Japan, the United States and Europe. Its customer base started in Southeast Asia and India, and expanded to China, Japan, the United States and Europe. Ai Palette is based in Singapore, with an engineering hub in Bangalore.

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TechNode

JANUARY 3, 2025

million units last year, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) predicted ahead of the full data being released, local media outlet CLS reported. The Chinese EV giant last spring launched cheaper variants of nearly all of its best-selling models, making it a dominant producer and price-setter. million units set early last year.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2022

They hope to use that data to inform weather forecasting models with machine learning. Japan and India also operate smaller regional constellations. You can also delete your locally-stored log files at this step. They can also track changes in Earth’s ionosphere — the part of the atmosphere near space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Therefore , digitizing has been mostly around delivery rather than building new infrastructure and payment processing models for African individuals and businesses to make cross-border payments. Financial institutions are left with traditional systems and correspondence models to offer service to their customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Germany, Japan and Singapore. . In January at CES 2022, Morai unveiled the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model of its Morai SIM, also known as Morai SIM Cloud, which allows users to perform simulation tests in the cloud without the process of installing any software onto their local computers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Others include developing its proprietary technology stack and growing its three models — where it makes $5 million in MRR — across existing and new markets, it said in a statement. SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan.

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TechNode

APRIL 17, 2024

Japans Honda Motor said on Tuesday it is introducing a new electric vehicle brand in China, and will use components from local companies including CATL, Huawei, and iFlyTek as it looks to adapt to significant changes in the highly competitive Chinese car market.

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TechNode

JANUARY 12, 2024

Honda and its Chinese manufacturing partner Dongfeng have started testing systems during commissioning at the end of the project, with the facility set to begin volume production of Hondas Chinese-market electric e:N lineup later this year, as reported by the local newspaper Hubei Daily on Wednesday. Hubei Daily, in Chinese ]

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The round was led by Pelion Venture Partners , with participation from returning investors DNX Ventures (the Japan and US-focused enterprise fund that led Macrometa’s seed round), Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Partech Partners, Fusion Fund, Sway Ventures and Shasta Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. Despite the popularity of the model, it appears there are a variety of applications for which BNPL is just being tapped, and smaller players are carving out a niche as the retail market grows crowded.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

“It sits between the big brands and retailers, enabling them to customise a store’s assortment to match the needs of the local consumer. We call it ‘hyper-local retailing.'” . “Today, if you walk into one of the major retail chains in the U.S., ” Overstocks, out-of-stocks and returns cost retailers $1.75

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Hacking away at the business model. Apple tells us it doesn’t mean that games have to run locally on the iPhone — they can still be thin-client cloud games harnessing the power of remote servers to produce AAA graphics. It’s not yet clear that cloud gaming can even sustain an a la carte business model, where games are sold one by one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Some of the big players in the market today include Indeed.com — owned Japan’s HR giant Recruit Holdings, which itself is valued at around $66 billion and owns other brands like SimplyHired — ZipRecruiter, which went public last year; LinkedIn; and the search giant Google. “This is crucial,” said Martínez.

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TechNode

AUGUST 13, 2024

The new game has surged in overseas markets, topping the mobile game sales charts in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau, and climbing into the top 15 mobile game bestsellers in Japan, according to Chinese gaming media outlet Nadianshi.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

NIO on Thursday announced its foray into the Chinese ultra-competitive mainstream vehicle segment with the launch of the first model under its family-oriented lineup Onvo, featuring class-leading utility at nearly half the price of Teslas Model Y by leveraging its unique battery leasing program. kWh achieved by the Model Y.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Una currently has teams in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia and plans to expand in Southeast Asia before entering Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. To scale up, the company is currently building technology to automate its valuation process and will also have local teams in each of its markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He mentioned that he ad done a great deal of research. He was asking his local guide a lot of questions about what was and what wasn't appropriate. However, the local culture was to cover your body up. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm. 1) Everybody is People.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

It refurbishes IT equipment to very high standards with a largely volunteer workforce, and it is a model program for responsible export of refurbished IT equipment in to developing countries. Most of the computers that the organization works on are donated by local companies and residents.

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TechNode

APRIL 26, 2024

Global carmakers from Volkswagen to Toyota are introducing new models at the Beijing Auto Show 2024 with the help of Chinese tech companies in an effort to defend market share amid a major shift to electric vehicles led by local car giants. Geely has taken a radical approach to how EVs are put together, giving the 4.7

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Japans Honda and Nissan have reportedly been slashing their output in China. Major Chinese automakers, including BYD and Geely, rolled out dozens of refreshed models at significantly lower prices last March after the week-long New Year holiday, TechNode reported.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. Jen recently spoke at TechSoup’s Online Community Meetup.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). The conversation touched on various dimensions of the data-collection issue: The challenge of cultural assumptions embedded in standard health surveys (what is "jogging", exactly?

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

China surpassed Japan in 2023 to become the worlds largest exporter of vehicles, and surpassing this milestone represents an appropriate time to revisit this topic. By 1990, Japan surpassed the United States to become the worlds largest car producing nation.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But that won’t fix the bikes that have already left for the staging warehouses in the US, Europe, and Japan before delivery to buyers. The Brothers Carlier now concede that they’ve outgrown their existing support model that often requires bikes to be reboxed and shipped back and forth for repair. “We

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

I chatted with the company’s CEO, Aziz Hasan, about the company’s future, how it could adjust its business model, and the potential future of crowdfunding. Kickstarter’s revenue is directly tied to the number of successful campaigns that launch on the platform, so has the pandemic made you reconsider your business model?

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

In April I wrote about the app’s move last year to let anyone verify their account by sending in a few selfies: Upon request, Tinder sends the user a picture of a model performing specific poses. If the user’s poses match the model’s, they get a blue checkmark. The platform is Tinder, Match Group’s popular dating app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Image Credits: Artifact personalization and stats The app in some ways is very much like others that exist today, which have been founded in other countries, including ByteDance’s Toutiao in China, Japan’s SmartNews and News Break, another personalized news reader with Chinese roots.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. All Things D.

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TechNode

APRIL 8, 2024

Then, in terms of control algorithms, we also draw from the control technology of quadruped robots, using model predictive control. However, 20 or 30 years ago, humanoid robots had already appeared overseas including in Japan and the United States. Another challenge might be localization.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek launched a pair of state-of-the-art, open-source AI models that require far less computing power and capital than those of Western companies, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and the Wall Street firms that fund them. A handful of 2025 honorees focus on ecological innovations.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I do think it’s going to push us to think about new models. I don’t know that it’s inevitable that streaming games means that there’s no local [computing] capability that I want in my house. Now, if your local device has almost no compute capability relative to games, obviously, we’ll move almost everything to the cloud.

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