Qutoutiao: a startup hitting 1.6B USD valuation in less than 2...
Qutoutiao has successfully survived in the highly competitive news aggregator market in China, where it is competing with Toutiao and Tencent News. After merely founded less than two years, it is valued at over 1.6 billion US dollars regarding its valuation after this round of investment.
iflix now treading deep waters
Becoming the Netflix of a smaller market is not as easy as it might sound
Rocket Internet’s workforce down by 50% – what does that mean?
This is not the first time we wrote about Rocket Internet’s fading star. In fact, it recently (although not openly admitting) closed many of...
Chinese media are overly harsh towards the MoBike founder
"An arm can’t win a wrestle against a leg, in China startups can never walk around the giants.”
Embracing regulations becomes the new norm – Crypto Review Part 4
Regulation-friendly cryptocurrencies with potentially numerous use-cases, will begin to see higher take up rate (and prices)
Twitter is a news company, not a social company
Twitter now is famous for real-time news feeds and events and unlike Facebook, it is preferred less when it comes to keeping in touch with friends.
Access versus privacy – is it even a choice?
The scandal involving Facebook supplying data to Cambridge Analytica indeed raised a lot of questions on the price that consumers pay for a “free” service.
How to unleash the full potential of online recruitment platforms?
Anu Shah, CEO of UShift, shares her perspectives on the potential & challenges of online recruitment platforms.
Grab finally buys Uber, as predicted. What next?
What are the implications to the market, the users, Go-Jek, and mobile payment development in the region?
What a Poker game taught us about decision making
Our team explored the decision making process with imperfect information and its outcome through a game of Texas Hold’em Poker.