PLDT Invests $445M In Rocket Internet To Develop Online Payment Services For Emerging Markets
TechCrunch Rocket Internet and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), a telecom operator, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop online and mobile payment products. PLDT will invest €333 million (about $445 million)...
Merchant Loyalty Platform Startup Spoqa Raises $3.9M To Expand In Japan
Spoqa, the Seoul-based mobile loyalty platform that won the special prize of the jury at TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo 2011, has raised a total of $3.9 million in funding to date led by Daesung Private Equity group and Bokwang Investments to fuel its expansion in Korea and...
Europe’s Bauer Media Sets Up Fund To Invest $134M In Startups Over 10 Years
TechCrunch It’s only a few weeks since Google Ventures announced it’s setting up shop in London as a hub for investing $100 million all over Europe. Now another big fund has been unboxed by local German media firm, Bauer Media. The new fund — €100 million or circa...
Restaurant Payment App Settle Raises $1.5M To Bring Waiter-Free Service To Eastern Europe
TechCrunch August 1, 2014 There are a host of companies attempting to make settling your bill at a restaurant ‘waiter-free’, by employing a smartphone app and accompanying mobile payment and POS system. These include behemoths such as PayPal, with its ‘Pay At Table‘...