Twitter launches a ‘lite’ mobile web app that’s optimized for emerging markets

 Twitter has taken the wraps off a new data-optimized version of its service that it hopes…

AdAsia, an ambitious one-year-old ad tech startup, raises $12M for expansion

 AdAsia, a one-year-old online advertising startup based in Singapore, has closed a $12 million Series A round from…

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, wins ‘computing’s Nobel Prize’

 Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, has been honored with the…

WhatsApp will reportedly launch peer-to-peer payments in India within 6 months

 WhatsApp may be about to introduce peer-to-peer payments in India, which is its largest market with…

Report: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

 Mobile is today as important, if not more important, than desktops when it comes to the…

Apple is developing its own graphics chips for future iPhones

 Apple is one of only a handful of phone makers to develop its own mobile processors,…

Twitter’s head of Asia Pacific is leaving the company after 4.5 years

 Twitter is losing the head of its Asia Pacific business, Aliza Knox, after she announced the end…

Uber rival Grab makes first major acquisition to build out its payments platform

 Grab, Uber’s biggest rival in Southeast Asia, has completed its first major acquisition after it bought…