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The Gionee M6/M6 plus’s hardware encryption promises to offer one of the most robust security systems available to any smartphone Chinese mobile phone maker Gionee has announced the launch of two new smartphones, the Gionee M6 and M6 Plus. On first impression, one may brush them off as another run-of-the-mill series of Chinese smartphones that have flooded...

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Verizon wants to compete with Facebook and Google, but it can’t do so head on, so it has to find an alternative attack plan On Monday, in the aftermath of the US$4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon, the tech community lamented on how far one of the great Internet pioneers had fallen. The bigger...

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 The restaurant food delivery wars in Europe were always going to get messy and the latest casualty is Take Eat Easy. Despite celebrating its 1 millionth order last week, the Brussels-headquartered startup has ceased trading and will file for “juridical restructuring” after it failed to raise a much-needed Series C round and has run out of money. Read More

The collaborative learning platform will use the funds to build on its early successes, grow the team and drive partnerships across Asia Pacific, among other things Teamie, a social mobile learning platform in Asia Pacific, has recently secured S$1.5 million (US$1.1 million) in its pre-Series A funding. ACP, a Singapore-based venture capital firm, together with Spring Seeds Capital, led the...

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Why we’re heading towards a bloodbath and four strategies to avoid it Being the new kid on the block means that e-commerce ventures in Southeast Asia have the luxury to learn from others’ mistakes, from mature e-commerce markets such as the US and China. It’s been over 20 years since Amazon (1994) and eBay (1995)...

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Why we’re heading towards a bloodbath and four strategies to avoid it Being the new kid on the block means that e-commerce ventures in Southeast Asia have the luxury to learn from others’ mistakes, from mature e-commerce markets such as the US and China. It’s been over 20 years since Amazon (1994) and eBay (1995)...

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