TechCrunch According to the World Bank, more than one billion people in South and East Asia lack access to a…

 Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai is the latest tech executive to issue an open call for tolerance after Donald…

 There is an increasingly large roster of personal assistant apps that use artificial intelligence in an attempt to make users’…

 Mega-chain Walmart announced today that it plans to offer mobile payments to its shoppers. Called Walmart Pay, the service is…

 Palantir Technology, the data analytics firm whose clients include the U.S. government, has raised $129 million in new funding. Based…

 India’s e-commerce market is growing at an incredibly quick pace and expected to be worth $100 billion by 2020. All…

 Uber has suspended its auto-rickshaw service in Delhi. Called UberAUTO, the feature represented one of the car-hailing app’s attempts to…

 Didi Kuaidi, the largest car-hailing app in China, announced today that it has added Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang to its…

 APUS Group, a Beijing-based company that makes utility apps for Android smartphones, has launched a $45 million investment fund to…

 Paytm, which claims to be India’s leading mobile payment platform, has acquired local services startup Near.in for $2 million to…