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Yello Mobile buys out Indonesian price comparison site PriceArea
The Korea-based mobile company has acquired PriceArea for an undisclosed seven-figure amount; going forward the site to focus on mobile Acquisitions of Asian companies to expand current modus operandi...
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Unified Inbox to buy cloud solution Smak for LifeModes integration
Recently headquartered in Singapore, this firm will be integrating LifeModes into its platform to help users classify messages Headquartered in Singapore, social communication and collaboration...
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Kakao and Daum to merge up via equity swap
South Korean chat app and internet portal/game publisher merger will create a company worth US$2.9 billion in market capitalisation Two South Korean tech companies will be joining forces via an equity...
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Google acquires Hong Kong startup Divide
Google has bought the enterprise mobile device management platform for an undisclosed amount of money. The Divide team will join Google’s Android division Hong Kong-based startup Divide has announced...
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Will Asia produce a billion-dollar exit? Find out at Echelon 2014
Exitround CEO Jacob Mullins will tell you how startups in Asia can maximise the value of their M&A exit at Asia’s biggest tech conference Jacob Mullins, Founder and CEO, Exitround The first half of...
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Echelon 2014: Exitround Founder on maximising technology M&A value
Jacob Mullins, Founder and CEO of Exitround gives insights into the global M&A scene, and Asia’s position vis-a-vis the rest of the world Jacob Mullins, the CEO and Founder of Exitround, an...
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Echelon 2014: Connecting people gives me a high, says Exitround’s CEO
Jacob Mullins, CEO and Founder, Exitround, gets candid with e27, as he recounts why he didn’t make a career in political science and instead became an entrepreneur in the tech sector Image Courtesy:...
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Crowd meets competition: DesignCrowd acquires Worth1000
The acquisition will allow DesignCrowd to tap into Worth1000′s strong userbase, enabling it to expand its pool of design talent Not long after its expansion to the Philippines, crowdsourcing design...
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Who benefits when telcos merge?
Ian Ferguson discusses mergers and acquisitions among telcos around the world, and observes how this could affect the Asian telco scene Another day, another merger? The telecommunications sector is on...
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Catcha’s iProperty secures US$100M investment from News Corp affiliate
With this, REA Group of News Corp acquires 17.22 per cent stake in iProperty. The transaction values iProperty at approximately US$600 million Online investment firm, Catcha Group announced today that...
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Tapjoy acquires South Korea’s 5Rocks to create an ‘app tech’ solution
Tapjoy will integrate 5Rocks into its nGen platform this Q4. Are mobile app developers excited? Mobile ad tech and monetisation company Tapjoy today announced acquiring South Korea-based analytics and...
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US$3.25M: Zomato’s lunch bill in Czech Republic and Slovakia
Zomato acquires Lunchtime and Obedovat, the Czech Republic’s and Slovakia’s restaurant search services, for US$3.25M; will infuse a further US$2.5M into ops Zomato, the Indian online and mobile...
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How immune are you to cyber threats?
Andrew Stott, a partner with Olswang in Singapore, discusses cyber security risks and the measures needed to secure data and systems I’ve got bad news: you are all vulnerable. Personally, and...
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Rakuten to buy cash-back shopping website Ebates for US$1B
In 2013, US-based cash-back shopping website Ebates processed more than US$2.2 billion worth of transactions Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten today announced its plans to acquire US-based cash-back...
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How Singaporean companies are strengthening the East-West bridge
Andrew Stott of Olswang discusses how businesses from the city-state are steadily expanding their global reach, particularly in mobile tech and telecom Singapore may be a country no bigger than the...
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Singapore’s Unified Inbox acquires US-based SocialGrow
The key components of SocialGrow will be integrated into Unified Inbox’s product offerings Unified Inbox, a Singapore-based social communication and collaboration platform, today announced that it has...
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Fun social polling tool Flipter acquired by 1World Online
Echelon alumnus Flipter will become 1World Online Latin America with CEO joining the latter as General Manager Mexico-based fun social polling tool Flipter has been acquired by Silicon Valley-based...
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Yahoo acquires Indian startup Bookpad
Few months after the Facebook – Little Eye Labs deal, another Bangalore startup has been bought by a tech giant. Bookpad has been reportedly bought for a little under US$15M Close on the heels of...
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Zomato acquires Poland’s restaurant search service Gastronauci
This is the Indian online, mobile restaurant search and discovery service’s fourth buy within a span of three months Indian online, mobile restaurant search and discovery service Zomato today announced...
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PropertyGuru and Emtek join forces to lead Rumah to the top
With this partnership, KMK will acquire an undisclosed minor shares of PropertyGuru Indonesia Hot news coming through. PropertyGuru has just published a joint venture with Emtek Group’s subsidiary PT...
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