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Kickstarter today announced that its staff has decided to unionize. The move reflects a broader movement for worker representation among tech employees. The site joins a growing list of companies whose staff and/or contractors have expressed public interest in unionizing, including Spin, Instacart and Pittsburgh-based Google technical workers, along with media outlets like BuzzFeed and […]

Gojek has paid $30 million to take a minority stake in Blue Bird, one of the largest taxi operators in Indonesia, according to Bloomberg, which first reported that the deal was in progress last month. Gojek’s stake in Blue Bird is worth $30 million. The taxi operator’s holding company disclosed in a regulatory filing earlier […]

SumUp, the London-based fintech company that enables small businesses to take card payments via its device and online, is launching its own pre-paid card in partnership with Mastercard. Dubbed “SumUp Card,” the new offering will enable merchants to gain quicker to access funds collected via SumUp as it will no longer require money to be […]

Finance e-Commerce ecosystem startup Commerce.Asia invests in Malaysian rural social commerce platform BizApp Commerce.Asia announced that it has made an investment in BizApp, Malaysian rural social commerce platform, with the aim to “overcome the disparity between urban and rural entrepreneurs through social commerce”. BizApp was founded in 2017 by Hasnol Mizam Hashim and Mohd Taib […]

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Finance e-Commerce ecosystem startup Commerce.Asia invests in Malaysian rural social commerce platform BizApp Commerce.Asia announced that it has made an investment in BizApp, Malaysian rural social commerce platform, with the aim to “overcome the disparity between urban and rural entrepreneurs through social commerce”. BizApp was founded in 2017 by Hasnol Mizam Hashim and Mohd Taib […]

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There are hundreds of women entrepreneurs out there, who broke gender stereotype and fought all the odds with great pains to build successful companies and secure a place in what is arguably a male-dominated industry. Anu Shah — a 32-year-old serial entrepreneur with two successful business exits, who also served as CEO of Rocket Internet […]

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