The Catalyst Fund has gained $15 million in new support from JP Morgan and UK Aid and will back 30 fintech startups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the next three years.
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, TikTok, currently the world’s hottest social media app, Continue reading →
Jeff Bezos was in India this week, documenting a highly anticipated business trip with sunny Instagram posts from choice destinations like a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. But the richest man in modern history has been silent on a top issue Continue reading →
Amazon founder lays out ambitious plans for investment in India over next five years
Amazons founder, Jeff Bezos, has pledged to invest $1bn (776m) in small businesses in India, despite a growing backlash against the online retailer by the Continue reading →
Imran Khan will use UN address to highlight alleged atrocities carried out by Indian army
Pakistans prime minister, Imran Khan, is to follow a speech by his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, at the United Nations general assembly by accusing him Continue reading →
Glance, a subsidiary of Indian mobile ad business firm InMobi, said today it has raised $45 million as it prepares to scale its business outside of India and bulk up its product offerings.
Residents could visit mosques but not able to call relatives on eighth day of crackdown
Large congregations have been banned for the major Islamic festival of Eid in Indian-administered Kashmir, where an unprecedented communications block on landlines, mobile and Continue reading →
Not three months after it won a second term in powerand only five since it rewrote the rules of engagement in South Asia in a balls-to-the-wall display of reckless one-upmanshipthe Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi is showing once again Continue reading →
With most small grocery stores in India yet to get online, startups racing to digitize them continue to see promising backing from investors. Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, today said it has raised $12.7 million Continue reading →