Asia’s tech news #116: Tech In Asia School, F10 Singapore Batch 3, Global Startup Award winners…

WK Wright
4 min readNov 29, 2021

In this issue: F10 Singapore’s 3rd startup intake, Tech In Asia School launches, Global Startup Award’s SEA winners, NFTs and music royalties, tech skills shortage in Australia…

2021 Global Startup Award winners include Sri Lanka’s Hatch coworking and Malaysia’s Gobi Partnerswww.globalstartupawards.com

Gobi is one of the longest-standing VC firms with a Pan-Asian presence across North Asia, South Asia, and ASEAN with over US$1.1 billion in assets…

Video: That Startup Show, Season 3 premiere, with Randi Zuckerbergwww.theta.tv

Will we imagine a new world that will support our long-term survival in harmony with ourselves and our planet? What will that look like? What can startup culture teach us about navigating…

F10 Singapore unveils 9 startups for Batch 3, working in NFTs, crypto, fintech and morefintechnews.sg

The goal of this 5-months programme is to support early-stage startups in the process of transforming their prototype into a scalable product, while they…

Tech In Asia School Aspiring Founders Program set for February 2022 launch, an 8-week online courseschool.techinasia.com

How to start a startup for Southeast Asia’s most formidable founders…

Singapore’s Overseas-Chinese Banking Corp mulls crypto exchange in response to customer demandwww.bloomberg.com

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. is considering whether to set up a crypto exchange as Southeast Asia’s second-largest lender seeks to respond…

Unicorn Battle Online, New Season: January 20th 2022 — startup applications are open

Australia’s skills shortage: “…will need to upskill an extra 200,000 tech workers over the next few years.”www.businessinsider.com.au
Australian tech companies are driving training initiatives in a bid to address a major tech worker shortage.

Australia: Commonwealth Bank adds retail offers with Little Birdie, likely aiming for ‘super app’www.cmo.com.au

We ask industry experts to share their views on the launch of Commonwealth Bank and Little Birdie’s integration, which sees personalised retail shopping offers debut in its everybank banking app…

“…major social platform AND…biggest SEO blogs…saying ‘good riddance’ to [Google AMP]…”onemanandhisblog.com

The advent of core web vitals and the subsequent drop in AMP traffic means that the costs of publishing them may no longer add up for…

Singapore’s Horangi cloud cybersec firm partners Huawei Cloud for solutions across Asia Pacificwww.itnewsonline.com

Both companies will collaborate to establish best-in-class security guardrails and cloud visibility for organizations that use not only Huawei Cloud, but also multi-cloud environments. A key highlight…

ICYMI: Royal raises $55M Series A with NFT’s paying royalties to owners as well as artistswww.thestreet.com
The music rights company is offering collective ownership of songs.

Accenture: Securing the digital economy — reinventing the internet for trust (pdf)

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