On now: Day 2 of Wild Digital SEA, covering DeFi, digital inclusion, ed-tech & Startup World Cup pitches — www.wilddigital.com
WILD DIGITAL is Southeast Asia’s Premier Digital Conference. Focusing on established regional online and mobile businesses, WILD DIGITAL’s fast-paced format is the ideal environment to learn about…
Indonesia: MoU inked for country’s first smart city, to transform BSD City in Greater Jakarta region — www.thestar.com.my
An Abu Dhabi-based company, Group 42 (G42), has joined forces with Sinar Mas Land to transform BSD City into a smart digital city, using technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and…
Malaysia: Penang’s Creative Digital District, aiming for a tech-driven home for startups, arts and more — www.thestar.com.my
TURNING George Town’s heritage enclave into a hub for digital economy and gazetting Penang’s Middle Bank into a marine sanctuary have become among the latest focus of Penang2030, a vision…
Australia: Oxamii smart grid platform enables renewable-source energy trading in communities — www.smartcompany.com.au
Oxamii co-founder and chief executive Aaron Yew says the platform gives customers easier access to clean energy from nearby commercial and residential generation sources, which can be traded at…
Kazakhstan gains access to Facebook internal system, allowing gov’t to remove ‘harmful’ content — www.rferl.org
“Facebook has provided Kazakhstan direct and exclusive access to Facebook’s ‘Content Reporting System’ (CRS) which can help the government to report content that may violate Facebook’s global content policy and local laws of Kazakhstan,”…
FinTech Australia unveils Investor Map — sources across VCs, angel funds, corporate investors… — investors.fintechaustralia.org.au
This interactive map is managed directly by the investors themselves and providing the relevant information, including startups/fintechs they have funded in the past. Angel investors, Accelerators…
H2Oai closes $100M funding led by Commonwealth Bank of Australia; CBA to explore AI-driven products — www.business-standard.com
20,000 organisations, millions of data scientists, and half of the Fortune 500 trust H2O.ai as their AI provider. The company has a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78 — the highest in the industry. The…
Factmata’s founder dives into the challenges faced in building an online fact-checking startup — techcrunch.com
Our thesis was clear: If technology could drive people to seek truth, facts, statistics and data to make their decisions, we could build an online discourse of reason and rationality.
ICYMI: Reddit co-founder to invest $100M in building social media projects on Solana blockchain — markets.businessinsider.com
Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder, at the Solana conference in Lisbon Solana Alexis Ohanian has partnered with the Solana Foundation to invest…
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