Casetify is known for teaming up with popular brands and artists like Pokémon and Lisa Frank to create cases for personal devices, and that now extends to popular K-pop supergroup, BTS.
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Shares of Chinese technology media platform 36Kr dropped 10% in its debut on the Nasdaq on Friday, following a string of poor performances by US initial public offerings.
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加拿大作為全球面積第二大的國家，人口卻少於4000萬，但這個小市場卻孕育了不少成功的科技初創，據StartupBlink 2019初創生態圈最新排名，加拿大僅次於美國及英國，並力壓科創強國以色列排名全球第三，地位超然。為了突破當
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Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, the US$131 million venture capital fund started by Jack Ma, plans to boost investments in Hong Kong’s biotech startups that could become the next unicorn, expanding its focus from fintech and AI.
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This article is co-written by Tracy Qu.
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為什麼星巴克、可口可樂、海尼根總是有辦法讓消費者為他們的行銷活動買單？為了讓主要目標客群或是潛在消費者，能夠提升對品牌的認知，增加使用者對品牌的涉入程度，進而產生忠誠度，甚至是再次光臨（Reintention）。
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The Mills Fabrica, the tech incubator of Hong Kong property developer Nan Fung Group, has invested $2 million in MOTIF, an apparel knowledge platform of American apparel business development consulting firm Alvanon.
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This article is an excerpt from an episode of Startup Snapshot, a Tech in Asia podcast that features the leaders and innovators in the Asian startup scene, and discusses the highs and lows of their founder journeys. It is heavily revised from the original transcript.
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Only three media companies — Buzzfeed, Vice Media, and Vox Media — meet the definition of a “unicorn,” or a startup valued at more than $1 billion.
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As China steps up oversight on cross-border capital flows, Australia-based payment unicorn Airwallex considers it a beneficial approach to clamp down non-compliant operations and promote overall industry development.
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500 Startups Bedy Yang: Since 2010, we’ve invested in over 2,200 startups through our funds. Through our ecosystem building initiatives, my team and I have educated more than 500 venture investors, including corporate venture capital (CVC) units. We’ve also advised leaders of some of the largest companies exploring this challenging environment on the creation and development of their corporate venture investing programs and funds.
We anticipate that corporates have an increasingly outsized role to play in the startup ecosystem, and our conversations with C-Suite executives have revealed the extent of the challenges they face while also highlighting new opportunities for growth.
This report is the result of an extensive survey we conducted on corporate venture capital units. We surveyed over a hundred practitioners on the changing role of the corporate venture investor. Today, we’re excited to share the story behind that transformation.
We thank those that were able to participate in this report and look forward to continuing this conversation and driving our industry forward. We hope our 2019 CVC Report guides your innovation journey.
We found no evidence that TikTok blocks pro-Hong Kong democracy videos — or that many American teens were interested in the protests. Short-form video app TikTok can’t shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States.
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How, in the age of the internet, does a government quell unrest? One popular option is to simply shut the internet down. In 2018 there were 195 shutdowns across 25 countries, and this year is already on track to break that record.
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Hmlet, Asia’s fastest-growing co-living operator, is set to launch Hmlet Zion Apartments in Mong Kok this November, the brands largest dedicated facility in Hong Kong to date.
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Booqed, a Hong Kong-based platform for booking short-term work spaces, announced today that it has raised $1.675 million in seed funding. Participants included Colliers International, the commercial real-estate management company, Techstars and Lazard Korea.
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Alex Kong of TNG Fintech confirmed that the Hong Kong-based fintech startup had never realised its US$115M in Series A funding to Tranglo
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On the business, strategy, and impact of technology. “It” refers to the current imbroglio surrounding Daryl Morey, the General Manager for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the latter’s dealings with China.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has acquired a majority stake in the grocery delivery start-up Cornershop for an undisclosed sum, the company announced on Friday, as it seeks to build its food delivery business.
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Uber is experimenting with a new feature that aims to reduce cancellations as a result of customers bringing a pet along for the ride. Dubbed Uber Pet, the new feature will be available in select cities starting on October 16th.
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Alipay, one of China’s dominant digital payments providers, has teamed up with Russian internet firm Mail.ru in an e-wallet joint venture to develop digital payments in the country.
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Japanese media company Nikkei Inc. has acquired a 14.79% equity in Singapore-based AI startup DC Frontiers to support the product development of scoutAsia, a data and news service launched by Nikkei and the Financial Times last year.
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Sequoia Capital’s startup accelerator program, Surge, has named the 20 companies that form the Surge 02 2019 cohort, with at least six currently at a pre-launch stage.
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When a factory in China wants to ship a container of goods to a client overseas (in Europe, for example), step one typically involves ringing around a few logistics firms to get a quotation.
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We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple. That was how the Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party outlet, covered Apple’s removal of HKmap.live, an app that helped Hong Kong protesters track police, from the iOS App Store.
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People are furious after Blizzard Entertainment suspended Hearthstone player Chung “blitzchung” Ng Wai for expressing support for Hong Kong during an official tournament broadcast.
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