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Indonesia builds its own Silicon Valley: “Algorithm Hill” in West Java
A rendering of how Algorithm Hill would look like
Indonesia’s plan to create a Silicon Valley-like technology park...
‘Silicon Valley Vietnam’ planned in Ho Chi Minh City
Hi-tech park in Ho Chi Minh City's District 9
Ho Chi Minh City’s local government is planning to...
500 Startups to fund more Vietnamese tech startups
Silicon Valley venture capital firm 500 Startups has raised $14.1 million for the new seed-stage fund of its Vietnamese unit, 40 per cent over...
Vietnam’s fintech market to reach $7.8 billion in value by 2020
As financial technology startups, or fintechs, keep disrupting Vietnam’s financial services industry, their market value is expected to reach $7.8 billion in just two...
Silicon Valley executive ‘very excited’ about the Asia Pacific region
As Silicon Valley venture capital funding slows down considerably, it's likely to be startups with real business models, product and service offerings that will...
College Simulates The Real World
Current research reveals that students decide to go to college primarily to improve their employment opportunities. They look to colleges to prepare them not...
Of Sketches, Compositions and Flow: Evaluating Higher Education
From Cogswell Polytechnical College in San Jose, California, Dr. Deborah Snyder and John Duhring, authors of a new higher education series in advance of...
Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play to launch in Mideast
Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator that is invested in more than 300 companies globally, has tied up with Jordan-based telco Umniah to...
Silicon Valley venture fund seeks Middle East capital for startups
A new venture fund, the Fenox Global Fund IV, seeks to invest $100 million in seed, Series A and pre-IPO funding throughout the US,...
Know what people really think on: 1World Online
1World Online is a Silicon Valley-based start-up providing an innovative social research service to help understanding what people really think on a variety of...
San Francisco’s tech revolution – a photoblog
What made San Francisco stand out in its economic development, producing high-caliber tech companies, top-notch IT experts and laying the foundations for the global...
Silicon valley firms at odds with Singapore
New online content rules in Singapore have promted five Silicon Valley-based web giants to voice their concern to the city state's government about a...
Silicon Valley firm eyes ASEAN start-ups
BootstrapAccelerator Asia, a newly launched company with backing from Silicon Valley investors, is eyeing to enter partnerships in Southeast Asia through mentoring and funding...
Yandex market cap bigger than LinkedIN
Yandex, the Russian search engine/internet service provider, hit the ground running with an initial public offering giving them a market cap of $11.2 billion. ...
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Russia’s Putin offers investment in new Indonesian capital
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo investment in the country’s planned new capital, Bloomberg News cited a statement by the...
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Garuda halves debt, believes profitability in sight
Indonesia’s national carrier Garuda Indonesia has halved its debt and achieved comparable cuts to aircraft leasing costs in negotiations with creditors, according to a...