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08/06/2020

An opportunity to listen to a pioneer in Digital consultation.

How can we digitize healthcare? In our next Hatch Global discussion, Cyrus Massoumi, Founder and CEO of ZocDoc will walk us through challenges and opportunities to innovate within the healthcare industry as he brings all his successes and failures to the table on June 11 at 6:30 PM IST.

Cyrus founded ZocDoc in 2007 as a health app that digitized the process of finding and booking doctors’ appointments. With COVID19 forcing the healthcare system to stand on its head, we’ll discuss how technology can support an already complex industry to address its needs better.

Join us https://bit.ly/hgep7

05/11/2019

The cars were affixed with a smartphone that was running HAMS, an AI project developed by a Microsoft Research team. HAMS uses a smartphone’s front and rear cameras and other sensors to monitor the driver (their gaze), and the road ahead of them.

An American giant may have figured out a way to simplify the tedious procedure of issuing driver licenses. And an early sneak peek of this solution is now live in parts of India. Hundreds of people who have taken the driver license test in Dehradun, the capital of the Indian state Uttarakhand near ....

25/10/2019

We have been quietly building our pipeline and portfolio. The learnings surrounding the challenges in building & scaling a in Sri Lanka has been insightful.

22/10/2019

Nadiem Makarim, the CEO and founder of local tech titan Gojek, says he has formally accepted a role within the government and will resign from the company he started.

The CEO was previously speculated to be apppointed as the minister in charge of either education or small and medium-sized businesses. 

10/10/2019

is a textbook example of a slow and steady growth strategy paying off. While some networks experience swings in their user base or show a boom and bust growth pattern, has grown every single year since it was launched. In 2019, for example, reported a 24% increase in sessions on their platform.

An entertaining look at the popularity of social media platforms over time, from MySpace to TikTok.

08/10/2019

Digital Health 150 startups is a list of 150 of the most promising private companies creating innovative products and services in the $5T+ healthcare industry

The most promising 150 private digital health startups working to transform the healthcare industry with new models of primary care to emerging tech solutions for providers.

13/09/2019

Strong technical talent is the key driver behind the new wave of start-ups that have graduated from early stage and are scaling across the country.

It’s been almost two years since our last piece on the Sri Lankan tech ecosystem. Between 28 August –1 September 2019, Bilal Ali Qureshi from the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator team, visited Sri Lanka to meet with key ecosystem builders and to support oDoc, one of the Ecosystem Accelerator Innovatio...

13/09/2019

The deal ends this Sunday! Don't miss the opportunity to listen (maybe even meet) to the two biggest startup personalities in Asia, Casey Lau of RISE, Hong Kong and Amarit (Aim) Charoenphan of Techsauce Thailand. https://lnkd.in/gCT7BpR

Disrupt Asia 2019 – Sri Lanka’s Premier Startup Conference and Innovation Festival organized by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka since 2016 promoting entrepreneurship, policy, innovation and startups.

08/09/2019

Popular media coverage of often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. But over the next few decades, Generation Y will enter its prime spending years and it’s set to receive $30T in wealth from baby boomers and Gen X.

Millennials are one of the largest generations in history, and they're on the cusp of their prime spending years. These are the industries that stand to benefit the most.

07/09/2019

Congratulations oDoc for getting recognised as one of the most well-funded in APAC. A proud moment for the 🇱🇰 ecosystem!

06/09/2019

Announcing the release of a new approach to hand perception, which we previewed CVPR 2019 in June, implemented in MediaPipe—an open source cross platform framework for building pipelines to process perceptual data of different modalities, such as video and audio.

Posted by Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang, Research Engineers, Google Research The ability to perceive the shape and motion of hands c...