58.com, China’s Largest Classifieds Site, Acquires Rival Ganji.com

 58.com, China’s largest classified site by monthly unique visitors, has acquired rival Ganji.com. Beijing-based 58.com forked over $412.2 million in cash as well 34 million newly issued shares for a 43.2 percent stake in Ganji.com. Read More

Cloud Customer Service Startup Freshdesk Reels In $50M Round

 Freshdesk, a cloud-based customer service tool, caught a bushel of money today, announcing a $50M investment led by Tiger Global with Accel Partners and Google Capital also participating. The funding comes on the heels of a $31M round last June and brings the total investment to just over $95M. The reason Freshdesk went back for more so soon, was that it has continued its phenomenal growth,… Read More

A Robot That Bought Drugs Online Is Now Free From Police Custody

 If that headline doesn’t make much sense welcome to the 21st century when a program designed to buy random items from illegal marketplaces automatically can be arrested by Swiss police. As you’ll recall, Swiss police seized a program called Darknet Shopper, a bot that visited darknet markets and bought random items with bitcoin. Most of the items were mundane – counterfeit… Read More

And The Winners Of TechCrunch’s First Meetup In Seoul Are…

 Last Thursday we held our first TechCrunch meetup in Seoul, Korea, in association with Campus Seoul from Google. Read More

Under Fire In India, Facebook’s Internet.org Launches In Indonesia

 Facebook’s Internet.org program has expanded into Indonesia, a country with a 250 million population, marking its second largest launch in Asia to date. Read More

Aliyun, An Alibaba Unit, Is Building China’s First “Cloud Hospital”

 Alibaba’s power doesn’t just stem from being the largest player in the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market. The company also sits on hoards of data, gathered from its shopping sites, as well as its financial and cloud computing businesses. Now Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing subsidiary, has entered a deal to build what it calls the first “cloud… Read More

Fly Or Die: HTC One M9

The HTC One M9 isn’t all that different from its predecessor the M8 — it still has a premium though relatively thick design, but it upgrades in the camera department as well as in general processing speed. But does it stand out? Biggs feels that the One M9 isn’t suited for the current competitive landscape, given the recent release of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge —… Read More