Asia: This Week’s Top Stories // November 29, 2015

DJI’s Latest Drone Saves Crops From Pests | India’s Grofers Grabs $120M To Bring Offline Merchants Into The On-Demand World | Xiaomi Unveils The Redmi Note 3, Its First Phone With A Fingerprint Scanner | Fitness Wearable And Coaching Startup GOQii Lands $13.4M Series A From NEA And Cheetah Mobile | Facebook’s Internet.org Now Available Throughout India | Ola, Uber’s Arch-Rival In India, Hires Ex-Infosys CFO | China Punishes VPN Users In Its Rural Northwest By Cutting Their Mobile Service |

ASIA WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Catherine Shu DJI’s Latest Drone Saves Crops From Pests DJI made its name building high-end consumer drones, but its latest model shows where the future may lie for the Shenzhen-based company and its competitors. Read More… Ingrid Lunden India’s Grofers Grabs $120M To Bring Offline Merchants Into The On-Demand World The race for on-demand delivery services in India is on, and today one of the bigger startups in the market has picked up a large cash injection as it... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Get a Virtual Phone: System ROM for Nexus 5 with Hidden Space support Use separate accounts, apps and data for work, play, banking, kids and use a hidden virtual space for your most private data. Read more Learn More… Jon Russell Xiaomi Unveils The Redmi Note 3, Its First Phone With A Fingerprint Scanner Increasing the focus on its nascent payment service, China's Xiaomi has brought a fingerprint scanner to its range of affordable smartphones for the first time... Read More… Catherine Shu Fitness Wearable And Coaching Startup GOQii Lands $13.4M Series A From NEA And Cheetah Mobile Wearable fitness trackers are becoming increasingly popular, but a lot of them are quickly abandoned after the novelty of tracking exercise and sleep wears off.... Read More… Catherine Shu Facebook’s Internet.org Now Available Throughout India Internet.org, Facebook's initiative to provide free Internet services in developing countries, is now available to all Indians through the Free Basics app on... Read More… Jon Russell Ola, Uber’s Arch-Rival In India, Hires Ex-Infosys CFO Indian ride-sharing company Ola boosted its efforts to beat Uber this month when it closed its $500 million Series F round, and, fresh off the heels of that... Read More… Jon Russell China Punishes VPN Users In Its Rural Northwest By Cutting Their Mobile Service China's crackdown on VPNs, software that enables Internet users circumvent the country's web censorship, continues unabated after the New York Times reported... 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