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In video, how an entrepreneur went into Rejection Therapy and found opportunities instead

Author, blogger, and entrepreneur Jia Jiang spent 100 days seeking out rejection and ended up discovering that simply asking for what you want can open up possibilities where you expect to find dead ends. How do you desensitise yourself from the sting of rejection? In this TEDxMyHood talk, Jia Jiang talks about that time he […]

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Taiwan can be the next innovation hub in Asia, with deep tech as its main driving force

If they can get into a global mindset, Taiwan startups can set out to prove that they are more than just a gateway to China   Taiwan is a dynamic economy gaining an increasing interest from businesses in the recent years. And why not? It is the 7th largest economy in Asia, ranks 15th in […]

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Digital wealth manager Moneyfarm acquires tech behind fintech chatbot Ernest

 Moneyfarm, the U.K.-headquartered “digital wealth manager” has acquired the technology behind personal finance chatbot Ernest. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, though I understand that, along with the tech, this is an acqui-hire of sorts, seeing London-based Ernest’s CTO Lorenzo Sicilia join Moneyfarm to oversee technology integration. Read More

In the Android vs. iOS war, the next battleground is augmented reality

The new Apple iPhones are going all-in on augmented reality, and so is the Samsung S8 and Google Pixel This fall, it is Apple vs. Google. The battleground is augmented reality. Google recently unveiled tools which could be used to create augmented reality apps for smartphones on the Android OS. This has set up their […]

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Indian car- and bike-sharing startup Drivezy raises US$10M funding; launches ICO

Drivezy has also partnered with Unocoin to accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment, making it the first self-drive car and bike rental firm in India to accept cryptocurrency Even as Chinese bike-sharing startup Ofo is mulling an entry into India, Drivezy, a self-drive peer-to-peer car and bike sharing company, has raised US$10 million in a fresh round of investment from […]

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MAS and Singapore banking consortium are building blockchain prototypes

The agencies are heading a consortium that is creating three blockchain prototypes trying to decentralise inter-bank payments and settlements The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) announced yesterday the consortium of they are heading is developing three software prototypes to use blockchain to decentralise inter-bank payments. The goal […]

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