Alibaba’s Ant Financial may have won the bidding war for MoneyGram after upping its offer to $1.2B

 Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate company focused on financial services, appears to have finally won its…

TechCrunch is hosting our first event in Shenzhen this June!

 Four years after we made our TechCrunch China events a twice-annual affair in Beijing and Shanghai,…

Elk is a zero clutter currency converter app

 There’s no shortage of currency converter apps for travelers to load onto their iPhones, but there’s…

Accelerator program Zeroth wants to find Asia’s top AI and machine learning startups

 Zeroth is an accelerator program that is out to fix the lack of talent, and investment options,…

HackerEarth raises $4.5M to bring ‘hacker culture’ into corporate companies

 HackerEarth, an Indian startup that grew from arranging hackthon to offering corporate innovation services, has closed a…

Amazon gains wallet license to boost its business in India

 Amazon has gained a wallet license in India, Medianama reports, as part of a move that…

Alibaba’s Ant Financial to develop services in Indonesia as global expansion continues

 Ant Financial, the fintech company affiliated with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is continuing its global expansion.…

First Circle raises $1.3M for its SME lending service in the Philippines

 First Circle, a fintech startup enabling SME lending in the Philippines, has raised $1.3 million. The…