News Corp acquires Indian digital media publication VCCircle
Global media giant News Corp buys VCCircle publication for an undisclosed sum VCCircle tracks PE, VC and M&A related information and analysis of the Indian investment ecosystem Last November, News...
View ArticleIndia’s YouTellMe.com acquires Priceburp; plans to raise Series A
Online price comparison and product discovery portal YouTellMe.com acquires Mumbai-based coupons and deals portal Priceburp for an undisclosed sum The operational team of Priceburp will integrate with...
View ArticleiProperty Group acquires Thailand’s ThinkOfLiving.com
Thailand’s real estate portal ThinkOfLiving.com has been acquired by the iProperty Group The expected purchase price consists of a base payment of approximately US$4.5M in cash and US$1.5M in...
View ArticleHousehold services platform Helpling acquires local rival Spickify
Weeks into its arrival on Singaporean shores, online household services startup, Germany’s Helpling acquires its biggest local rival, Singapore based Spickify German online home cleaning startup...
View ArticleNewsHunt acquires mobile analytics company Vauntz
The flaghship product of Verse Innovation, NewsHunt has acquired analytics and mobile platform company Vauntz for an undisclosed sum Vauntz has products such as Hurricane, a Big Data analytics as a...
View ArticleDaum Kakao acquires South Korean venture firm K Cube Ventures
Daum Kakao acquires 100 per cent shares of K Cube Ventures Firm has decided to increase K Cube Ventures’ paid-in capital by US$15 million to use for launching a new early-stage fund Korea-based K...
View ArticleSnapdeal forays into financial services; acquires RupeePower
Indian online marketplace Snapdeal has acquired majority stake in digital financial products distribution platform RupeePower With this, the e-commerce player to launch a marketplace for financial...
View ArticleNews Corp-backed PropTiger.com buys digital interaction design firm OoBI
Last November, News Corp acquired 25 per cent stake in PropTiger.com for US$30 million Team OoBI Online real estate advisor PropTiger.com has acquired Bangalore-based Out of Box Interaction (OoBI), a...
View ArticleSnapdeal acquires mobile recharge startup Freecharge
The announcement comes barely a week after Snapdeal acquired majority stake in RupeePower, a digital financial products distribution platform L to R – Rohit Bansal, Co-founder of Snapdeal; Kunal Shah,...
View ArticleTaiwan’s ALPHA Camp acquires Singapore-based The Pragmatic Lab
Startup school ALPHA Camp has bought The Pragmatic Lab for an undisclosed amount; aim is to disrupt tech education in the region Taiwan’s startup school ALPHA Camp has acquired Singapore-based The...
View ArticlePhilippine startup Satoshi Citadel Industries acquires BuyBitcoin.ph
A local Bitcoin buy and sell exchange in the Philippines, BuyBitcoin.ph wants to increase awareness and adoption of the technology Philippine startup Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) has acquired...
View ArticleZomato acquires cloud-based MaplePOS to move beyond reviews
This is the first product acquisition for Zomato after it acquired seven companies across the world Zomato, the online restaurant guide, has acquired MaplePOS, a cloud-based point of sale product for...
View ArticleChina’s Ninebot acquires American scooter maker Segway
The brands will remain independent and the two companies will continue to serve the market through their respective products Segway, the American manufacturer of funky personal transportation devices,...
View ArticleCarzonrent buys ride-sharing startup Ridingo to take on BlaBlaCar, Tripda
Recently, India’s largest home-grown online taxi booking venture Ola acquired rival TaxiForSure for US$200 million As the Indian digital taxi aggregating industry is heating up with the likes of Ola...
View ArticleIndian online test prep startup Toppr acquires rival EasyPrep
Last year, Toppr had raised US$2 million in seed funding from Helion Venture Partners and SAIF Partners Toppr and EasyPrep teams Toppr, an online test preparation platform in India, has acquired rival...
View ArticlePayroll startup Salarium partners with mobile payment firm PyxPay
With this, Salarium will have an e-wallet that can pay employees anywhere in the world Hong Kong-based payroll solution company Salarium has partnered with PyxPay, a mobile payment firm, in an attempt...
View ArticleHealth tech firm mClinica acquires stake in Medix
Investing in the cloud-based clinic management service gives mClinica access to technologies and expertise to fuel its expansion L-R: Medix Founder Marc Medina and mClinica Founder and CEO Farouk...
View ArticleIndia’s MakeMyTrip acquires travel startup Mygola
As part of the deal, the entire Mygola team has joined MakeMyTrip Nasdaq-listed online travel company, MakeMyTrip has acquired Bangalore-based travel planning website Mygola for an undisclosed amount....
View ArticleKakaoTalk in talks to buy Path as Indonesia grows
KakaoTalk and LINE have been spending huge amounts of money on marketing trying to acquire marketshare in Indonesia, according to Re/code As Indonesia continues to heat up as a major technology market...
View ArticlePracto acquires FitHo to expand into preventive healthcare
This is the first of the several acquisitions planned by Practo, shares its CEO L-R: Dhruv Gupta, Co-founder of FitHo, and Shashank ND, Co-founder and CEO of Practo Practo, a Bangalore-based doctor...
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