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INDIA GAME

【Exclusive】Fanspole Raises Funds from Better Capital Fantasy Sports in India is a fast-growing category with many legal hurdles common for such a new platform now, out of the way.

by Anshuman Gandhi

2020-09-14

INDIA Real Money Game Paytm Frist Games

【Exclusive】PayTM First Games and Daraz Tie Up for International Expansion Daraz covers a market size of 460 million people and currently claims 5 million customers across South Asia.

by Anshuman Gandhi

2020-07-27

INDIA Startups Real Money Game

【Exclusive】Real Money Games Quiz market leader Zupee At the time, the game had 1.5 million gameplays and a million downloads.

by Anshuman Gandhi

2020-07-14

GIANT

Google Launches $10 Bn Digitization Fund to Back India’s Digital Future The fund will be invested in businesses, social impact projects and towards supporting the Indian government's digitisation efforts over the next 5-7 years.

by Inc42

2020-07-14

INDIA Startups Real Money Game

【Exclusive】Nostragamus - The New Real Money Games Platform from India From Fantasy Sports followed by Quizzing to traditional real money games like Rummy and Poker and now focused on hyper social games, Nostragamus has become the face if not the leader when it comes to the next stage of Real Money Games in India.

by Anshuman Gandhi

2020-07-06

INDIA Mobile Game Publisher Winzo Games

【Exclusive】WinZo Games -The Netflix of Gaming In India WinZo Games has also set up a fund of $1.5 million to support Indian gamer developers and studios.

by Anshuman Gandhi

2020-05-15

CHINA Electric Vehicle XIAOPENG

Xpeng Claims Its Chinese-made EV Can Outlast A Model 3 It can drive 438 miles on a charge, or 200 miles farther than the Model 3.

by engadget

2020-04-29

CHINA SMARTPHONE HUAWEI

Huawei unveils its latest smartphone series The move came as Huawei is working to maintain the growth momentum of its smartphone business, despite the US government's restrictions and the COVID-19 outbreak.

by ChinaDaily

2020-03-27

EGYPT FINTECH Fawry

Mohamed Okasha steps down as Fawry’s managing director to launch $25 million fintech fund The fund will invest in Egyptian fintech startups across different stages.

by MENAbytes

2020-03-27

KENYA TRANSPORTATION Matatus

Matatus take up mobile payments in bid to limit the spread of COVID-19 Matatus, Kenya’s public service vehicles have been urged to take up mobile payments starting from Nairobi, in a bid to limit the spread of the Coronavirus from cash payments.

by kenyandigest

2020-03-26

INDIA DRONES FlytBase

FlytBase Offers Free Drone Services To Health Initiatives Fighting Pandemic FlytBase believes that this will minimise contact and limited the opportunities of exposure to the virus.

by Inc42

2020-03-26

INDIA Healthcare Invest India

Invest India Launches Platform To Meet Medical Supplies Demand For Covid-19 The Business Immunity Platform was launched on March 21, 2020.

by Inc42

2020-03-25

SINGAPORE CUSTOMER SERVICE Grab

Grab launches grocery service GrabMart in Vietnam GrabMart allows users in the southern city to order fresh and processed food and drinks from its merchant partners, including supermarkets, convenience stores and food retailers.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-03-24

CHINA AI ALIBABA CLOUD

Alibaba offers AI diagnostic tool of COVID-19 to more countries The technology has been used in over 260,000 clinical cases in 160 Chinese hospitals

by Xinhuanet

2020-03-23

SOUTH AFRICA PE Design Innovation Seed Fund

Design Innovation Seed Fund open for applications from Western Cape innovators The Design Innovation Seed Fund will provide Western Cape innovators with grants of up to R800k.

by ventureburn

2020-03-23

Tunisia CUSTOMER SERVICE IntiGo

Tunisian bike taxi startup IntiGo temporarily pivots to delivery services because of Coronavirus Tunisian bike-taxi startup IntiGo has temporarily pivoted to offer different types of delivery services to consumers and businesses because of Coronavirus.

by MENAbytes

2020-03-23

UAE EDTECH Aldar Education

Aldar Education rolls out new distance learning programme The e-learning platform contains a variety of learning resources — as well as assigned tasks that need to be completed online.

by magnitt

2020-03-20

INDIA DRONES Dunzo

Dunzo Drone Deliveries May Become A Reality By April-End DGCA has allowed Dunzo and Throttle to test their long-range drone delivery solutions

by Inc42

2020-03-20

RWANDA New Energy Vehicle Ampersand

There Are More Motorcycles In Kigali Than Cabs In New York & A Rwandan Startup Is Making The Whole Fleet Go Electric One Bike At A Time E-moto company, Ampersand, is about helping the country’s motorcycle fleet go electric one bike at a time, and the startup is doing this with a business model that is quite unique.

by WeeTracker

2020-03-18

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT BYTEDANCE

ByteDance goes on Singapore hiring spree, poaching Facebook and Google employees The firm plans to set up its new ad network center in the city-state to target the Southeast Asian market.

by kr-asia

2020-03-13