Baidu furthers AI push with acquisition of digital assistant startup Raven Tech

 Baidu is furthering its push into artificial intelligence after it announced the acquisition of Raven Tech,…

mClinica raises $6.3M to map healthcare data in Southeast Asia

 Health startups are pulling in money in Southeast Asia. A week after wellness-focused insurance brokerage CXA drew $25…

PromisePay rebrands to Assembly Payments and nets partnership with Gumtree

 Australia-based payment firm PromisePay, which raised $10 million last year, has a double shot of news…

Disney cuts ties with PewDiePie, YouTube’s top star, over anti-Semitic clips

 Disney has cut ties with YouTube’s most popular star after he posted a series of videos…

Amazon launches Chime, a video conferencing and communications service for business

 Amazon has taken the wraps off of its own Skype competitor. Chime is a new video conferencing and communications from…

Grab is buying Indonesian payment firm Kudo in its first major acquisition

 Uber’s Southeast Asia rival Grab is in the process of buying up Indonesia-based online payment startup Kudo in…

Uber begins mapping Asia’s roads, starting off in Singapore

 Uber is beginning to map roads in Asia for the first time as it aims to…

WeChat users in China can now gift friends a Starbucks coffee via chat

 Starbucks is furthering its push into China after it consummated its partnership with Tencent to introduce…