Tune Studios and BAC Ventures today completed the acquisition of Malaysian live music booking startup Gigfairy for an undisclosed amount.
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At some point, people in the tech game realize that secrets sell. We at Tech in Asia know this better than most. Folks from out of town are always popping by our office and buying rounds of coffee in hopes of discovering something they didn’t already know about Southeast Asia’s startup scene. In our coffee
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Only a month ago, Malaysia-based e-hailing app (although it now touts itself as Singapore-based company), GrabTaxi, announced that it raised a whopping US$400 million from China’s taxi app giantDidi Kuaidi, American investment firm Coatue Management, Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation, along with a few shareholders. This funding increases the four-year old startup’s war chest
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“WHAT cake do we get?” Anyone who has ever been tasked with buying the birthday cake for a dinner party or an office celebration knows the dilemma involved. Buying a cake is not always easy. There are lots of things to consider. What kind of cake would people like? Which bakers are actually good? Where’s
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Bikesh Lakhmichand likes to joke that the 1337 Accelerator’s name was deliberately chosen to screen tech start-up hopefuls approaching the accelerator programme that he runs. If you know what 1337 stands for, congratulations — you’ve passed the first test! But if you have to ask, you’re probably not a tech geek and it shows. For
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I was headed to Mid Valley Megamall one Wednesday afternoon. It was past lunch hour and I was giving myself a pat on the back for waiting patiently for the lunch crowd to go back to their dreary offices so that I didn’t have to wage war against them for parking (at the time I was not
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TAKE some quirky aliens, oddly shaped spaceships, elusive interstellar settings and simple maths equations and what do you get? An educational yet entertaining mathematics mobile gaming app for elementary schoolchildren. Dubbed Zap Zap Fractions, this mobile app is the brainchild of Malaysia-based gaming startup, Visual Math Interactive. The nifty game is a freemium gamified maths
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THE ivory tower, as academia is sometimes referred to, carries negative connotations of irrelevance, disconnection and even elitism in the way academics go about their research and teaching. This criticism has pushed many universities to widen their engagement with industry and policymakers by initiating more collaborative research projects and courses that produce more job-ready graduates.
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The components of an ecosystem are slowly coming together as more effort go into supporting and grooming startup companies in Malaysia. One critical piece of the puzzle that was recently added to the ecosystem is what’s called an “accelerator”. For those not familiar with accelerators, they are a fairly new type of initiative that assists
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StartupHouse @ Cyberjaya, a programme by digital agency Pixaworks Creative officially launched February 12 with an introduction to the five teams. StartupHouse offers support for budding tech startups in the form of mentorship and training while participants live and work together for three months. Five teams, selected from a closed-door pitch, moved into a condominium
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