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Featured Event

 

Silicon Dragon
 London 2015
  
U.K. - ASIA LINKS: Deals, Growth, Profits
It's More Than A
Time Zone Advantage!
    
March 11, 2015
16:00-21:00
Campus London
  
 
Opportunities beckon 
 in fintech, 
e-commerce, gaming, 
R&D, mobile and more to/from London and Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Bangalore and beyond.
  
 
 
DEALMAKER PANEL 
 
Rana
Bhavani Rana
Partner
Amadeus Capital
Partners
See related Forbes post:
  
Frank Meehan
Partner
SparkLabs Global Ventures
  
Hussein Kanji 
Partner
Hoxton Ventures

Mark Thompson
Partner
Sidley Austin

Zach Tan
London Director
Infocomm Investments

TECH CHATS
Charlie Cao
Managing Director
China Telecom
  
Michael Schmidt
Chairman
Algomi Ltd.

Nick Bryant
CEO
PCG Entertainment

Alexander Trewby
Partner Developer Manager
 Google

OUTLOOK
Jeff Cao
Head of APAC
London & Partners
 
Jon Edwards
Deputy Director,
Equity Capital Markets
London Stock Exchange
 
Lisa Weaver-Lambert
Managing Director
Red Rose London
 
  Thanks to Silicon Dragon London 2015 Sponsor:
Sidley Austin
 
  
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Shoreditch, London
      

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April 22

Beijing
May 21
 
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 Sept. 16

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July 23

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  Oct. 6

Awards
Hong Kong, Nov. 5
  
Taipei
 November 12

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Paris
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 Baidu's Chinese New Year heat map tracking the large annual migration from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzen in real time.

qianxi.baidu.com

Happy New Year! 

 
 

 

TECH DEALS AND TRENDS

 

GREATER CHINA

 

Robin Li channels Liberace at Baidu's 15th anniversary gala.

What is it with China's tech lords?


Join Baidu - see Robin Li play the drums. The perks of joining a Chinese internet firm.

http://on.wsj.com/1DJkkIl 


China Internet search leader Robin Li's fortune drops $1.8 billion as Baidu shares plunge 

http://onforb.es/19bmZkC 
 

In the first six weeks of 2015, China hatched about two dozen billionaires, many riding IPO wave

http://bloom.bg/1JmNYKm 


 

Leading taxi apps Kuaidi and Didi in $6 billion merger to counter Uber's advance in China http://ow.ly/J6siA

 

LinkedIn's China bet starts paying off with increase in users http://bit.ly/1zfeda4 

 

Tesla's Elon Musk ready to fire execs over weak China sales - just 120 of the luxury electric cars last month. Could put dent in Tesla's global ambitions. http://for.tn/1L3PGMe

 

Apple's digital personal assistant Siri got a new competitor from ZTE: "Hello, World! I'm from China!" http://t.co/7JUGirPOp7

 

Behind Alibaba's $590 million bet on smartphones http://bloom.bg/16LwyVB


 
Chairman of ludicrously valued, Netsun, aka "the other Hangzhou-based e-commerce company," now a billionaire. http://goo.gl/jdWtDq

http://onforb.es/1AwqmP5

Under Lenovo's ownership, Motorola appears to have gotten its mojo back. http://onforb.es/1zSDEFo

 

Chinese company Hanergy plans to release solar powered cars later this year. http://onforb.es/1AwqmP5

 

Taiwan's National Development Council will invest $83 million in four venture capital funds, including 500 Startups and TransLink Capital

 

Inside China's bitcoin mine that's making $1.5 million per month from a repurposed factory in Liaoning province.  

http://bit.ly/16SgwKC 


 

A reality check on Alibaba's drone delivery test in China http://onforb.es/1KiL4TL 


 

'Made in China' Is Increasingly Becoming 'Made in USA' http://nbcnews.to/1DwMbNP

 

China Rising: How four giants are revolutionizing China's homegrown film business. http://bit.ly/1zF2VkC

   

Tech clouds over China: entrepreneurs, customers, cloud computing onforb.es/16xhbAR  

 

Silicon Valley

Red-hot startup Fab raised $330 million and then went bust. Now, PCH International is set to buy the company for a mere $15 million. Deal could close this month.

August Capital, a CA-based venture capital firm, has closed its seventh fund at $450 million and is in search of great entrepreneurs. http://ow.ly/J6Ozc

The new white flight: in Apple's hometown, parents flee schools that are "too Asian" - too academically driven

www.wsj.com/articles/SB113236377590902105 

 

INDIA

India startups raised $700 million + in 1 week

http://bit.ly/1DtzCD8http://bit.ly/1DtzCD8 

 

Jack Ma's Indian sojourn into e-commerce begins with Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial Services acquiring a 25% stake in mobile payment ecosystem Paytm, run by One97. Alibaba co-founder Peng Lei is joining the board of Paytm. http://bit.ly/1vQd1zA 

 

India-based mobile news aggregator raises $50 million from NY hedge fund Falcon Edge Capital, Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and Omidyar Network. The new financing follows $18 million in October for the startup positioned for Indian-language mobile users.  

 

Location-based SEO enabler NowFloats in Hyderabad raises Series A funding led by Omidyar Network. http://bit.ly/1CQQ3c3 

 

India outgrew China last year if you believe the new statistics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What happened to the '10000 Cr startup fund' announced by Government of India http://your.st/1M5LWwP 

    

Indian billionaire amongst secret buyers of NYC real estate http://flip.it/18iLE 


The Bumpy Ride for Deep Kalra's MakeMyTrip Web Operation http://onforb.es/ZzFi5Z

 
 
 
 
India's high-touch digital ecosystem "We have1200 open positions at Zomato right now"

How smartphone brands you've never heard of are taking over India and China http://ow.ly/Ix6NT
 

 


Top Venture Capitalists Advise U.S. Tech Startups to Go East
 
VCs David Yuan, Chris Evdemon, Eric Hsia, Teddy Himler, Hany Nada, Eric Kim at Silicon Dragon

 

What's a U.S. tech startup without an Asian growth strategy? That's what Silicon Valley venture capitalists want to know.

A panel discussion of leading Sand Hill Road investors at Silicon Dragon's recent forum in Palo Alto agreed they wouldn't invest in a U.S. tech startup that has no plan to expand or operate in Asia's emerging markets. That's understandable given the growth curve of many of the region's still-fast growth markets, their large-sized Internet and mobile sectors, and the entrepreneurial energy found in China, Korea and increasingly, India.

Forbes: Click on Go East or Else 

 

Founders of US tech startups Path and Quixey reveal their strategies of going east to gain traction in China, India and Indonesia. 
Click on video below to hear how it's working.  
Silicon Dragon Palo Alto 2015:  Panel, Go East for Growth

Silicon Dragon Palo Alto 2015:

 Jacob Orin of Quixey and Dave Morin of Path with moderator 

Eric Savitz

 

Two Chinese tech startups in the Valley - EHANG and Lepow - are racing ahead by adapting a go-global approach. Hear how.     

Silicon Dragon Palo Alto 2015: Tech Chat with EHANG, Lepow innovators

Silicon Dragon Palo Alto 2015:

Tech Chat led by Lilly Huang of Silicon Valley Bank with co-founders of two innovative Chinese startups

in the Bay Area

 

More videos and photos from the Silicon Dragon tech and investment forum, Feb. 5, can be found here:

 Silicon Dragon Palo Alto 2015


  

 

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