Asia: This Week’s Top Stories // January 10, 2016

Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America | Reimagining Internet.org | Facebook’s Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots | Chinese Travel Booking Giant Ctrip Invests $180M In India’s MakeMyTrip | Netflix Launches In 130 New Countries, Including India But Not China | MyMusicTaste, A Crowdsourcing Platform For Concerts, Raises $10M Series A | Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked Into Cyanogen’s Forked Version Of Android |

ASIA WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 2016 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Jon Russell Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America Easy Taxi, the Uber and GrabTaxi rival backed by Rocket Internet and among other investors, has confirmed that it has exited Asia in order to focus on the ride... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Hassan Baig Reimagining Internet.org In the wake of the recent suspension and growing calls for permanently banning Internet.org's app (called Free Basics) in India, it seems a course-correction is... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming to Boston this February Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on February 23, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Get your tickets now! Learn More… Josh Constine Facebook’s Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them... Read More… Jon Russell Chinese Travel Booking Giant Ctrip Invests $180M In India’s MakeMyTrip Ctrip, the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it agreed to invest $180 million in MakeMyTrip, a fellow... Read More… Jon Russell Netflix Launches In 130 New Countries, Including India But Not China U.S. movie streaming giant Netflix just dropped the hammer and opened its service in 130 new countries, including India and Russia -- but crucially not China.... Read More… Catherine Shu MyMusicTaste, A Crowdsourcing Platform For Concerts, Raises $10M Series A MyMusicTaste, a Seoul-based startup that gauges fan interest to help figure out where to plan concerts, plans to expand throughout Asia after landing a $10... Read More… Jon Russell Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked Into Cyanogen’s Forked Version Of Android Microsoft's Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One... 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service