May 23, 2014 | East Asia, News, Southeast Asia
TechCrunch May 23, 2014 YOYO Holdings, a rewards platform that targets prepaid mobile phone users in developing economies, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Japanese venture capital firms GREE Ventures, CyberAgent Ventures, and Incubate Fund. Based in...
May 20, 2014 | China, East Asia, News, North America
TechCrunch May 19, 2014 Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and help Amazon’s China site expand its selection of...
May 19, 2014 | East Asia, News
Sansan Inc., a cloud contact-management service, has raised $14 million in funding led by DCM. The Tokyo-based startup plans to use the capital to break into the U.S. market this month, as expand in other international markets. Other participating investors include...
Mar 27, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch March 27, 2014 Social customer service company Lithium Technologies will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired Klout for almost $200 million in cash and private stock, says Fortune. Re/code first reported last month that Lithium and Klout, which...
Mar 12, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch March 12, 2014 Alibaba has agreed to spend HKD $6.24 billion (about USD $804 million) for a 60% stake in TV and film producer ChinaVision Media Group. The purchase will allow Alibaba, which already dominates China’s e-commerce market, to boost its digital...
