by Adre's IT | 9 February, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, CargoX, contacts tracing, engine biosciences, malaysia, New Delhi
Twitter has rolled out its subscription service, Twitter Blue, to users in India, Brazil and Indonesia, it said on Wednesday, tapping large key overseas markets where it has amassed over 100 million users. Elon Musk, the owner and chief executive of Twitter, had...
by Adre's IT | 1 February, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Asia, malaysia, MUFG, real estate agents, Venture Capital, vista equity partners
MUFG, Japan’s largest bank by market cap, announced today the launch of a $100 million fund focused on Indonesian startups. The fund, a collaboration between MUFG subsidiaries MUFG Innovation Partners, MUFG Bank and Indonesian commercial bank Danamon, is called MUFG...
by Adre's IT | 16 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Asia, EAP, employee assistance program, employee morale, malaysia, Mindtera, Startups, vista equity partners
During the pandemic, Tita Ardiati and Bayu Puspito Bhaskoro began developing life coaching content to support employees who were increasingly burned out by working from home. They got a good enough reception that they decided to develop their product into an employee...
by Adre's IT | 27 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Akulaku, Asia, DNA testing, malaysia, MUFG, Startups, vista equity partners
Jakarta-based fintech Akulaku has raised $200 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest bank in Japan. This is part of a strategic investment, with startup and MUFG planning to expand into new markets and products together in 2023. Earlier this...
by Adre's IT | 5 September, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Asia, DNA testing, lasik, malaysia, SkorLife, Startups, TC, vista equity partners, WebOS
Indonesia’s credit bureaus currently have about 92 million credit records, but the founders of SkorLife say many people have trouble accessing their own data. That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free but also...
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during...
