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Visa Collaborates with Seven Startups to Drive Payments Innovation in Asia Pacific

AsiaTechDaily

Register Visa, digital payments corporation, has unveiled its partnership with seven promising startups in the Asia Pacific region through the Visa Accelerator Program. By partnering with Plug and Play, a renowned global innovation platform, Visa strengthens the impact of the Visa Accelerator Program 2023.

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Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos

TechCrunch

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. YouTube’s already doing this.

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Startups Who are Rising to the Occasion

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The inherent role of a startup is to find a problem, create a solution, and do it in a way that is efficient, cost-effective, and impactful. . In COVID-19 times, we’re seeing story after story of startups doing exactly this: finding problems, creating solutions, and deploying those solutions in an efficient and effective way.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Innovation: How Can Your Startup Embrace Change Moving Forward?

StartupNation

The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst that accelerated innovation and change in almost every industry. Given this, three relevant questions for all entrepreneurs to consider in the context of their own company and industry are: Why did it take a pandemic to accelerate innovation and change? How did your business fare?

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Villgro Philippines, IDRC of Canada launch accelerator program AI4Health Asia

AsiaTechDaily

This 10-month regional accelerator program is designed to promote and nurture innovations in Responsible AI in South and Southeast Asia. Currently, the company has a direct portfolio of 39 startups across health, education, agriculture, affordable housing, and women and girls in Southeast Asia.

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Gojek Partners with Vietnamese Electric Bike Startup Dat Bike

AsiaTechDaily

As part of this collaboration, Dat Bike’s electric motorbikes will be piloted by Gojek driver-partners in Vietnam , enabling them to provide transportation, food delivery, and courier services through GoRide, GoFood, and GoSend, respectively. It also aims to accelerate the transition to greener transportation for a better environment.”

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Indonesian auto tech startup Broom raises $10m in Openspace-led funding

AsiaTechDaily

Register Broom, an Indonesia-based automotive SME tech solutions startup, has announced raising $10 million in pre-Series A funding round led by Openspace Ventures. The funding round was also backed by MUFG Innovation Partners and BRI Ventures, alongside existing investors AC Ventures and Quona Capital.

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