Asia: This Week’s Top Stories // November 15, 2015

Stary’s Electric Skateboard Is Super Light And Super Cool | Ola, Uber’s Big Rival In India, Gives Its Payment Service A Standalone App | Rakuten Launches $100 Million Global Fund For Fintech Startups | 500px Launches Its Photo Sharing And Licensing Platform In China | Alibaba Hit $14.3B In Total Sales On Singles’ Day, With 69 Percent Made On Mobile Devices | Tencent’s WeChat Messaging App Reaches 200M Users On Its Payments Service | Uber’s Southeast Asia Rival GrabTaxi Launches Carpooling, Its First Peer-To-Peer Service |

ASIA WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Jon Russell Stary’s Electric Skateboard Is Super Light And Super Cool Electric skateboards are cool -- that's official -- but they come ten-a-penny these days. If you want to find a good one, China is the place to look. But don't... Read More… Jon Russell Ola, Uber’s Big Rival In India, Gives Its Payment Service A Standalone App Ola, India's homegrown rival to Uber, is branching out into a totally new vertical after it made Ola Money, its in-app payment service, available as a... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Sir Alex Ferguson And Sequoia's Mike Moritz To Speak At Disrupt London This will be the first time Sir Mike Moritz, the renowned tech investor, has interviewed Sir Alex Ferguson, the legendary coach of Manchester United, in the UK. As Harvard Business Review put it, if "Steve Jobs was Apple" then "Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United." Don't miss your chance to see this. Learn More… Jon Russell Rakuten Launches $100 Million Global Fund For Fintech Startups Calling all fintech startups, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is keen on you... so keen that it has officially launched a $100 million fund dedicated to... Read More… Jon Russell 500px Launches Its Photo Sharing And Licensing Platform In China 500px, the photography platform where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos, has become the latest Western technology company to enter China. The... Read More… Catherine Shu Alibaba Hit $14.3B In Total Sales On Singles’ Day, With 69 Percent Made On Mobile Devices Alibaba Group reaped $14.3 billion in sales during Singles' Day, a 54 percent increase from last year's tally of $9.3 billion. The most significant number... Read More… Jon Russell Tencent’s WeChat Messaging App Reaches 200M Users On Its Payments Service Chinese internet firm Tencent announced its latest financial results today, but one of the standout figures isn't a financial stat. It's that its messaging... Read More… Jon Russell Uber’s Southeast Asia Rival GrabTaxi Launches Carpooling, Its First Peer-To-Peer Service The league of taxi apps rivaling Uber is alive and well after GrabTaxi, the SoftBank-backed company that rivals the U.S. firm in Southeast Asia, became the... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service