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The European Commission put out a call Friday for startups and small businesses which are developing technologies that could help combat the COVID-19 outbreak to apply for fast-track EU funding. The push is related to a €164M pot of money that’s being made available for R&D via the European Innovation Council (EIC) — a European […]

Taiwanese accelerator SparkLabs Taipei has announced the names of the eight startups pitched on its third demo day.  These startups are working on solutions in diverse industries, from telemedicine to commercial AI to IoT.  Prominent personalities like Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube; Taipei’s Deputy Mayor Huang Shan-shan; and CY Tu, Deputy Director-General of the Ministry […]

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For the Summer 2020 accelerator programme, Y Combinator may go completely virtual Y Combinator has revealed plans to possibly make its Summer 2020 accelerator programme entirely virtual. The Silicon Valley firm, as reported by TechCrunch, has already made its Demo Day for its Winter 2020 cohort an online-only affair and has accelerated the timeline for […]

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The crisis at honestbee has deepened further with its employee approaching the Ministry of Manpower (MoM) regarding non-payment of salaries, says a report in The Straits Times. Of the total 77 employees who have filed salary claims with the ministry so far, 16 were filed in the past month. The MoM has scheduled their cases […]

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The cycle of innovation in financial services is always in motion and marketplace banking is fast becoming an invaluable business model. Incumbent banks, challenger banks, and account aggregator products are all eyeing the transition to marketplace banking, which is driven by customers, market and competition. In times where customers are moving away from banks to […]

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For the last 10 years, Asia has been leading the world in terms of economic growth by a notable margin. Much of that growth can be attributed to countries that make up Southeast Asia, with a combined GDP of nearly US$3.5 trillion amounting to the sixth-largest economic region in the world. As Asia’s economies have […]

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