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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

Three dads bring clean air to China on the cheap

The purifier start-up uses a subscription-based business model to make clean air affordable, reports Tech in Asia

Apple Pay to launch in China in 2016

The American company has joined forces with UnionPay to enter the mainland, reports Tech in Asia

This start-up uses emojis to disrupt online groceries

Terraa thinks it has the key to getting grocery deliveries right in India. Tech in Asia explores

Start-ups to the rescue as Delhi clamps down on diesel cars

Tech in Asia reports how start-ups such as Ola, Uber and Meru are making the most of the diesel car ban in Delhi

Philippine start-ups that raised funding in 2015

Tech in Asia lists the start-ups in the Philippines that have earned investors' vote of confidence in 2015

Start-ups from Pakistan that raised funding in 2015

Pakistan saw exponential growth in startup activity in 2015. Tech in Asia reports on companies that attracted investment

Stylofie.com raises Rs 1.65 cr from Hong Kong-based Swastika

The beauty and wellness company would use proceeds to expand beyond Delhi

Hyperlocal text messaging app Lookup partners with Twitter

Bengaluru-based free chat app Lookup has launched @lookuplite where users can tweet their requests