Capital to accelerate regional expansion of Southeast Asia’s largest integrated e-commerce platform for cars Carsome, Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform, recently completed its Series D fundraising. The US$30 million round, one of the largest all-equity financings to-date in Southeast Asia’s online automotive industry, was led by Asia Partners and was joined by existing Carsome investors Burda Principal Investments and Ondine Capital.According to Eric Cheng, Co-founder and Group CEO of Carsome, this fundraising round, the largest equity investment in Carsome’s history, is a strong endorsement of its integrated business model, with end-to-end digital enablement across used car sellers, dealers,…
Author: Marie Jones
Commodities Intelligence Centre (“CIC”) announces a momentous 2020 as it has jointly launched a “Digital Silk Road” initiative led by ZALL Smart Commerce Group (“ZALL”), Asia’s leading B2B e-commerce Group, and joined Singapore’s Blockchain for Trade & Connectivity (BTC) Network. As Singapore’s first global physical commodities B2B e-trade platform powered by blockchain, together with ZALL’s latest global digital trading platform, and China’s largest online and offline integrated wholesale trading platform “Zallgo”, CIC will help Singapore businesses uncover new opportunities and reap the benefits of the global digital trade economy through enhanced digital connectivity, in turn boosting trade across the Asia-Pacific…
Captiva Verde Land Corp. (CSE: PWR) (OTC: CPIVF) (the “Company” or “Captiva Verde”), is pleased to announce that further to its news release of July 27, 2020, where Captiva Verde has executed a share exchange agreement to acquire 100% of Salud Esmeralda de Mexico SA de CV, (“Esmeralda”) whereby Esmeralda holds a comprehensive pharmaceutical license to sell, market and distribute an entire suite of 300+ pharmaceutical, health, wellness and veterinarian products which include all narcotic, psychoactive and non-psychoactive drugs listed under Groups I, II & III in Mexico, and has executed a sales agreement with the Chairman of both the…
Azooka Labs, a leading safe fluorophore company with specialization in Molecular Biology products, reveals its first range of novel COVID-19 diagnostics products. RNA Wrapr is a molecular transport medium for COVID-19 sample collection, developed as part of the COVID-19 response team from Indian Institute of Science. RNA Wrapr inactivates the virus immediately only preserving DNA/RNA content required for RT-PCR tests. The sample tubes can be stored up to 7 days in Room Temperature and transported without dry ice or gel packs. RNA Wrapr is safe to handle even during unexpected accidental spillage or handling errors. Developing countries can collect samples…
BitDeer.com, the world’s leading all-in-one mining and cloud service platform, celebrates the second anniversary of its business with a week of promotional activities, which includes the opportunity for users of its mobile application to redeem computing power for free, along with other prizes. To commemorate its second anniversary, BitDeer.com is launching a week-long promotional campaign to give back to its users for their continued support. In the past, BitDeer.com has released various incentives for different occasions to bring more benefits to their users, which includes the first-ever Wet Season Festival held this April. For the second anniversary, the prizes up…
On November 30, a new domain name “Douyinpay.com” was added under “eName”, which is a domain name registrar commonly used by ByteDance to store its domain names. With DouYin Pay, DouYin’s short video ecosystem is expected to form a closed loop. Meanwhile, DouYin has offered its users access to mini-programs and H5 games on the Android platform, which brings greater traffic resources to its platform while officially provides we-media publishers with distribution and monetization channels through mini-programs and H5 games. Joy Spreader is deeply integrated into the DouYin ecosystem On December 6, Joy Spreader in its announcement pointed out that…
Moonstake will hold a joint webinar with Onchain Custodian and Ruby Capital about “Institutional Digital Asset Trends for 2021 – What else apart from DeFi?” on 16th of Dec, 2020. It will be held from 1PM Singapore/Beijing time. As the market faces a tough climb out of the pandemic, crypto has put up a stellar performance. Market survey of 800 institutional investors across the U.S. and Europe shows that thirty-six percent of respondents (27% in the U.S. and 45% in Europe) say they are currently invested in digital assets. It further revealed that not only a higher penetration with crypto…
– Firm Warns Airlines of Serious Threat to Air Travel Security from Fake Covid Test Certificates & Health Passports with Unsecure QR Code Technology – Sales of Fake Covid Test Certificates Booming in Russia & Middle East British cyber technology company VST Enterprises (VSTE) has today launched the worlds first public ‘FIT TO FLY’ secure health passport designed for air travel. The cross border platform called V-Health Passport(TM) can already be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play by searching for ‘VPassport’ or by visiting www.v-healthpassport.co.uk. It is the worlds first publicly available secure digital health passport that the…
Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, is dedicated to developing a new blockchain project called Efforce. With the purpose of funding energy-efficiency projects, Efforce launched its token WOZX on HBTC.com, a 100% Token Holder Owned Trading Platform. The cooperation between a high-tech team backed by Wozniak and a leading team from the blockchain industry has shown us an ambition that may end up a revolution in the environment and energy industries. After success with Apple, Wozniak was attracted to the technology of blockchain and use of cryptocurrencies. As a believer in blockchain industry and cryptocurrency economics, Wozniak and other industry veterans founded…
Founder Institute (FI), the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, today announces Pacer Ventures as ‘Investor in Residence’ for the Founder Institute’s African Accelerator program. As part of the program, all startups that graduate the Founder Institute in Africa will be reviewed by Pacer Ventures for potential investment in their seed or pre-seed round of funding. This development follows the announcement of Founder Institute as a strategic partner of Pacer Ventures for African early-stage start-ups that are solving some of the most critical problems on the continent. Pacer VC’s purpose is aligned with FI’s mission to empower communities of talented and…