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Big Blue Taxi takes on Grab, Uber in M’sia with e-hailing, delivery app
Big Blue Taxi launches app to rival Grab and Uber, aims to help drivers reclaim lost income.  
Malaysia: Where ‘disruption’ is an empty buzzword
Malaysia says it is serious about the Digital Revolution, but is it really, poses Khoo Hsu Chuang  
Reinventing Edison's invention factory with big data
Big data is not a single product but rather a portfolio of technologies that transparently correlates diverse data sets into business insights. The big data discovery journey is guided by integration of data sources allowing visualisation in a way that makes sense to the business user.
Indonesia to be Asia’s next digital powerhouse: Google-Temasek
Indonesia’s Internet economy will be worth about US$81 billion in 10 years, or about 40% of the total Internet economy of the entire South-East Asian region, according to a Google-Temasek report.
MaGIC, Uber, Digi launch Asean ideation lab
MaGIC, Uber and Digi launch ideation lab to grow business ideas from Asean entrepreneurs.
Go-Jek’s US$550mil funding a game-changer for Indonesia
Go-Jek’s US$500mil funding shows that the Indonesian market is strong enough to birth unicorns, writes Masyitha Baziad.
No SEA unicorns? Blame investors
If we want to create more unicorns in Asia, investors need to change the way they think and invest, writes angel investor Dr V. Sivapalan.
Week in Review: Legalising Uber and Grab the easy part, what of Airbnb?
Uber and Grab will be legal services in Malaysia but that’s just the easy part. What about Airbnb, wonders Karamjit Singh.
Google gets into car sharing
Waze Carpool launches in San Francisco Aims to reduce number of cars and costs   There is new competition for Uber – from Google. The company is launching Waze Carpool, a service designed to get multiple commuters paying for trips together.
Indonesia: Grab and Uber have 6mths to comply, or get out
Indonesia’s Transportation Ministry has come up with a new ministerial decree that defines ride-sharing services as transportation providers, requiring them to comply with the public transportation licensing regime within six months or be declared illegal.
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