Intel’s ongoing push to regain traction in chip manufacturing scored a nice vote of confidence this week, as Taiwan’s MediaTek agreed to a “strategic partnership” with the company. The deal fi
Africa-focused payments startup PalmPay raised a $100 million Series A round last year. TechCrunch spotted this news in Partech Africa’s latest end-of-year report on venture capital investments in A
Autonomous driving startups in China are in an arms race to put passengers in their machine-driven vehicles. Every few weeks, news arrives that another major player has got the greenlight to launch a
Kai-Fu Lee’s Sinovation Ventures has its eyes on a niche market targeting software developers. In April, the venture capital fund led a $10 million angel round in Jingling, a Chinese startup dev
Residents of Shenzhen will see truly driverless cars on the road starting Thursday. AutoX, a four-year-old startup backed by Alibaba, MediaTek and Shanghai Motors, is deploying a fleet of 25 unmanned
Africa-focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion. The investment came via Transsion’s Tecno subsi
A group of computer vision researchers from ETH Zurich want to do their bit to enhance AI development on smartphones. To wit: They’ve created a benchmark system for assessing the performance of
On the heels of large investments made in Flipkart and Snapdeal, another e-commerce juggernaut in India is closing in on an outsized round of funding to tap into India’s fast-growing, smartpho
The increase of smartphone ownership in India is fueling the rise of mobile wallets in India. One company leading the charge, MobiKwik, has topped up its own funds with a $50 million Series C round an
Google has announced the first Android One devices -- which are targeting the Indian market, starting at Rs 6,399/$105. Hardware partners for this first wave of affordable 'Droids are Micromax, Karbon
Web browser maker <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maxthon.com/">Maxthon</a> has announced a partnership with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rolltech.com.tw/index-2-10.html">Rolltech</a>, the
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediatek.com/_en/index.php">MediaTek</a> reported lower-than-expected revenue in its fourth quarter, but the Taiwanese handset chip maker says its still poised to s