Dec 22, 2014 | India, News, North America, South & Central Asia
Fresh from making its first investment in India last month, News Corp has now completed its first acquisition in the country, buying financial planning service BigDecisions.com as Next Big What first reported. The service is designed to be a one-stop-shop that uses...
Dec 16, 2014 | News, Southeast Asia
TechCrunch Bangkok-based gaming startup Infinity Levels has landed $500,000 in funding to help it follow the model of success popularized by Supercell’s business and its blockbuster smash title Clash Of Clans. Infinity Levels actually pivoted from an original focus on...
Dec 16, 2014 | East Asia, India, News, South & Central Asia
TechCrunch SoftBank’s investment spree in Asia is continuing today after the company announced a $90 million round for Locon Solutions, the company behind India’s Housing.com property portal. The Japanese telecom giant led the round in the property search company,...
Dec 12, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch Qualcomm this summer announced plans to invest $150 million in Chinese startups, and it has cracked that new fund open to put $40 million into five different organizations in the country, including voice recognition startup Unisound and games development...
Dec 4, 2014 | News, South & Central Asia
TechCrunch You don’t often hear of five-year-old companies raising multi-million dollar seed rounds, but that’s exactly what’s happened in Hong Kong today where biotech firm Prenetics closed $2.65 million for its next-generation prenatal DNA testing. Prenetics...
