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Report: Chinese F&B major Meicai mulls shifting IPO from US to Hong Kong
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Report: Chinese F&B major Meicai mulls shifting IPO from US to Hong Kong

According to a Bloomberg report, sources said Meicai could raise several hundred million US dollars in its public listing.
Deepti Sri · · 1 min read
Singapore fintech startup Thunes acquires European payments platform

Singapore fintech startup Thunes acquires European payments platform

As part of the deal, 50 Limonetik employees will move to Thunes.
Deepti Sri · · 2 min read
They kept losing their stuff. So they built a device to help others like them

They kept losing their stuff. So they built a device to help others like them

GearEye is a tool that harnesses RFID to make sure all your personal belongings are right where you need them.
Osman Husain · · 2 min read
Mapme lets you do a lot more than Google Maps

Mapme lets you do a lot more than Google Maps

Maps made easy, and fun!
Osman Husain · · 4 min read
Meet the scientist whose work took him from academia to startup hustle

Meet the scientist whose work took him from academia to startup hustle

YFind co-founder and Ruckus director of location technology Dr. See Ho Ting talks about taking his work to the world of startups.
Michael Tegos · · 5 min read

Cubeacon wants to be Indonesia’s pioneer in iBeacon technology

An Indonesian hardware startup tries to break into the global market for services based on Apple’s iBeacon technology.
Nadine Freischlad · · 3 min read

Nha Nha app launches to take on Google Maps in Vietnam

Coc Coc, arguably Google’s biggest competitor in Vietnam has just released an iOS app that competes with Google Maps. And guess what? The data is better than Google’s!
Nghia Nguyen · · 4 min read

Ruckus Wireless Acquires Singapore’s Location-based Startup YFind

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS), has just announced that it has fully acquired Singapore’s location-based startup YFind Technologies.
Willis Wee · · 1 min read

Pure Social, Location, and Mobile: A Tough Nut to Crack

‘Social, location, and mobile’ is often dubbed SoLoMo for short, and it’s one of the most annoying buzzwords used within tech circles today. Depending on how you use SoLoMo apps,
Willis Wee · · 2 min read

Zazzer Mixes Social, Group Messaging, and LBS – But Will It Blend?

A Chinese start-up is going very ‘elastic’ by mixing location (LBS), social, and IM/group messaging into its Zazzer service, which has beta Android and iPhone apps. The service’s Chinese name
Steven Millward · · 2 min read