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Try out Windows 10 for yourself right now in English or Simplified Chinese
As you likely already know, Microsoft announced its latest operating system, Windows 10, yesterday. The system will run on a variety of devices, including PCs, handhelds, and even the Xbox One game...
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Haze in Singapore: apps, purifiers, and sites to help you cope
The haze is back in Singapore. But until the Indonesian government finds a permanent fix to this tricky problem, we’ll have to resort to other ways of coping. Luckily, there are plenty of apps,...
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Microsoft to deliver cloud services from India, could give it edge over...
An analyst with Gigaom Research, Janakiram has worked with Microsoft as a Technical Architect and with AWS as a Tech Evangelist. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella with India’s human resource development...
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This startup wants to bring the internet to the final frontier (no, not space)
Human beings are, first and foremost, land creatures. We spend most of our time above water, and if we stay submerged for too long, our skin gets wrinkly, our oxygen depletes, and we die. Because of...
View ArticleThai Airways passengers can get wi-fi during flights starting February
Back in August of last year, Thailand’s national carrier Thai Airways applied for an in-flight wi-fi license with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). The regulator has...
View ArticleSingapore’s self-driving car makes Google’s version an unnecessary luxury
While Google may be hogging internet traffic with news of its self-driving cars, the reality is that they are forbiddingly expensive. The system, which is mounted onto a conventional car and uses...
View ArticleChina’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover declared unfixable, dead
Just 10 weeks after blasting into space and about two months after landing on the moon, China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ lunar rover has been declared dead. The robotic rover marked China’s third moon mission,...
View ArticleCrowdfunded in China: wireless chargers, smart bracelets, and electrical sockets
Welcome to our second installment of Crowdfunded in China, a monthly list of our favorite projects that successfully reached their fundraising goals on China’s biggest crowdfunding sites. This month,...
View ArticleRon Hose: Bitcoin is great for all the ‘unbanked’ people in the Philippines
The majority of people in the Philippines don’t have bank accounts or credit cards. The largely ‘unbanked’ population is an issue that the country is trying to tackle as it slows down the growth of...
View ArticleThis fitness tracker packs a tiny hospital in its sensors
The Tinké packs quite a punch as the only sensor on the market able to bundle heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen level, and respiratory rate measurements into a single device.
View ArticleThis startup makes 3D-printed, one-of-a-kind jewelry
In personalization of jewelry, since some geometrically complex designs can only be achieved by 3D printing.
View ArticleWith FaceRecog, your outdoor ad audience is no longer faceless
Using proprietary facial and signal tracking technology, the FaceRecog module can track real-time footfall at a given location, while at the same time ensuring full compliance with privacy regulations.
View ArticleIndian adtech firm Vizury to push harder into China with $16M series C...
Bangalore-based ad retargeting company Vizury Interactive Solutions has raised $16 million in series C funding. Intel Capital, the global chipmaker’s venture capital arm, led this round. Private equity...
View ArticleIndia’s 47 million small businesses are mostly offline. That’s music to...
Domain name marketplace GoDaddy filed for an initial public offering to raise US$100 million early this week. This US-based internet domain registrar and web hosting company has been stepping up its...
View ArticleIs this Flipkart’s secret weapon to beat Amazon?
The Indian ecommerce cauldron is simmering. On one hand, there’s market consolidation — Flipkart, the largest etailer in the country, acquired Myntra, the leading fashion portal, a few weeks ago,...
View ArticleThis startup claims to have the fastest image recognition technology on the...
The thing about image recognition as a feature is that it needs to be lightning quick.
View ArticleBig data and machine learning liven up the Indian online travel space
The travel industry in India is buzzing with startups and established players innovating quickly to get ahead of the pack. Portals like MakeMyTrip excel in airline and hotel bookings. Others focus on...
View ArticlePredictry aims to give small retailers Amazon-like predictive powers
Want the Amazon trick? Chua will give it to you at a price startups can actually afford.
View ArticleThis rising customer care startup serves Flipboard, WordPress, and Supercell,...
Helpshift, an Indian startup that pioneered customer support in mobile apps, has raised US$10 million in series A funding by Intel Capital. Visionnaire Ventures, True Ventures and Nexus Venture...
View ArticleIndian big data innovator Mu Sigma acquires Singaporean social media analyzer...
Big data analytics innovator Mu Sigma, based in Chicago and Bangalore, has acquired the Singapore-based social media analytics firm Webfluenz. In a blog post on the acquisition, Webfluenz says:...
View ArticleWhy 7 of the 11 Fortune 100 auto companies are AdNear clients
What Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Nissan, and BMW have in common, apart from being Fortune 100 auto majors, is that they are AdNear clients.
View ArticlePick up your pickaxes and headlamps: here’s how Bitcoin mining works
If you’re new to Bitcoin mining, here’s a guide that explains how it works and how you can get going.
View ArticleAre you sexist and you don’t know it? Why you should ask yourself that if...
Startup hubs like to portray themselves as meritocracies but sexism is pervasive. To a man it may not be apparent. To a woman it can feel like a thousand cuts.
View ArticleIn Singapore, tech-savvy gang members use Facebook to find new blood
The research showed that youths who socialise with peers who are friends with, or who are themselves, gang members are highly susceptible to being drawn into the gang.
View ArticleThis father-son duo just made free voice calls a reality
What they did was to create an app that allows quality calls to be made even on 2G networks.
View ArticleWhat if your phone could read your face? This ‘mad’ couple brings artificial...
Mad Street Den uses artificial intelligence to enable any smartphone with a camera to detect facial expressions and react to them.
View ArticleThis is how creepily Big Brother is watching you in India
India’s central government issues over 100,000 telephone interception orders every year. The state governments in the country do likewise.
View ArticleApple’s iWatch is just the icing: $502M invested in wearables this year
Apple's entry into this space heats up wearables by several degrees, and we could see another rush of investments.
View Article8 emerging technologies that kids born today will take for granted
We've compiled a list of eight consumer-facing emerging technologies that kids born today will take for granted by the time they're adults.
View ArticleHuawei – not Alibaba, Tencent, or Xiaomi – is China’s most forward-thinking...
Huawei may not make it into the headlines like its high-profile counterparts, but rest assured that its technology is some of the forward-thinking in the world.
View ArticleBig data innovator Mu Sigma wants to help businesses see how to connect the dots
Like a Google Maps for business decision-making, the tool uses technologies to help leaders get a complete overview of their business to make better decisions.
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Driverless cars in Singapore are coming faster than you think. They’re...
Singapore has driverless trains. But how about driverless cars? Making that happen is much more challenging due to the chaotic nature of road traffic. But today, the country has moved one step closer...
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How smartphone owners have made running restaurants much tougher (INFOGRAPHIC)
Vijay and his team at Sent.ly work to improve how companies communicate with customers in a mobile-first world. His specialities are mobile marketing, customer notifications, and customer support...
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Beginner’s guide to buying and storing Litecoin
The authors, TM Lee and Bobby Ong, are the founders of CoinGecko, a site that ranks the potential of altcoin. If you are new towards cryptocurrency, you might just have heard about Bitcoin. However,...
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Forget roaming – this tiny sticker gives you unlimited data in 55 countries
There are only two ways to avoid exorbitant data roaming charges when overseas. One – and this is quite a tall order – is not to use your phone at all. The more likely scenario, though, would be the...
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