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Alibaba's biggest investments of 2015

Tech in Asia explains what kept Jack Ma and Co. busy this year

A social media strategy for your start-up for 2016

If your start-up still isn't reaching out to your customers via social media, the ship is definitely leaving without you, says Tech in Asia

Tech accessories online store LatestOne.com gets Rs 20 cr funding

It raised the additional funding from existing investor Palred Technologies

Medi Assist invests $1 million in mobile fitness start-up MobieFit

MobieFit hopes to reach 5 million corporate employees in urban India

Bus aggregator Shuttl raises $20 mn in Series A funding

Shuttl offers about 15,000 rides a day in the Delhi NCR region for daily commuters; prices range between Rs 20 and Rs 100

Home cleaning startup SBricks acquires Melway

Acquisition of hands-on services player by SBricks to bring in 200 home cleaning professionals into its fold

Housing.com: How the business model slipped

Housing.com quickly went from being a darling of investors to a liability. Business Standard analyses how one of India's biggest start-ups got to a point where it had to shut down divisions and make l

Grocery delivery app PepperTap acquires Jiffstore

Raises another $4 mn; closes Series-B funding at $40 million

Services marketplace UrbanClap brings on-demand services to Hyderabad

The company will branch out in over 10 Indian cities with 100+ categories in the next six months

A dilemma for Powai, India's hot start-up hub

Though this Mumbai suburb houses IIT and some of India's hottest start-ups, it has also seen a spate of layoffs recently. Tech in Asia explains why

Murugappa, TVS groups invest in Industrybuying, a B2B online marketplace for industrial material

Corresponding to the trend of Individuals from Family Businesses emerging as New Age Investors

Entertainers booking app JilMore to raise $1 mn in pre-Series A funding

JilMore has roped in playback singer S P Balasubramanyam as its mento

A look at SoftBank's global start-up investments in 2015

Ola from India, Cybereason from the US, Coupang from South Korea - these are some of the investments the firm has made this year, reports Tech in Asia

Girnar Soft acqui-hires virtual reality company Drishya360s

Drishya360s is a video production, augmented reality, virtual reality, and web-designing and hosting company

After $4mn from Innoven, PepperTap to raise $11 mn more by January

The company has had a total fund raise of about $51.2 million

This week in Asian start-ups

Tech in Asia presents you with the hottest Asian start-ups making the news

Spark10 Accelerator to nurture 10 Hyderabad start-ups

Spark10 is India's first European start-up accelerator which aims to help early-stage start-ups turn their prototypes into scalable investable businesses

Yello Mobile valued at $4 billion

It will be one of the country's most valuable start-ups, after Coupang

How Housing.com tripped

Housing.com quickly went from being a darling of investors to a liability. In a two-part series, Business Standard looks at what happened. The first part analyses how one of India's biggest start-ups

Quintillion Media invests undisclosed sum in News Minute

The funds would be used to expand into local language news and views content such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada