Tagged: Startup Asia

Amadeus Does India Deal, Lightspeed Bulks Up, WeWork Goes Asian

This week’s Silicon Dragon News: China Media Capital takes stake in Ron Howard’s film group, Amadeus inks first India deal, 500 Startups steps up in Southeast Asia, Lightspeed recharges with 2 news funds at $1.2B, and Alibaba and SoftBank restructuring and bulked up. Elon Musk sounded off about Singapore roadblocks to Tesla. Plus, VR and cloud computing deals got funding.

Asian Startups Claim 11% of Billion Dollar Club

It’s remarkable to see so many Asian startups placing in the top tier of global companies valued at 1$ billion or more by venture capital firms. See Billion $ Club. China claims the most with eight, followed by India with four. In a signal that the Startup Asia story is spreading throughout the region, South Korea...

Silicon Dragon News – mid-February, 2015

 Baidu’s Chinese New Year heat map tracking the large annual migration from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzen in real time. qianxi.baidu.com Happy Chinese New Year!   TECH DEALS AND TRENDS GREATER CHINA Robin Li channels Liberace at Baidu’s 15th anniversary gala. What is it with China’s tech lords? Join Baidu – see Robin Li play the drums. The perks...