Alibaba Makes Strategic Investment In Israeli Venture Firm JVP

Alibaba Share 68 Two months after making its first investment in Israel, Alibaba is digging deeper into the country’s startup ecosystem. Venture capital firm JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners) announced yesterday that it will partner with the e-commerce giant to give financial support to promising startups. The amount of money both companies will invest together was not disclosed. Read More

Reddit Now Lets Other Sites Embed User Comments

reddit After a few months of beta testing, Reddit has officially launched embeddable comments. Like Twitter’s embedded tweets feature, embeddable comments makes it easy for other sites to feature comments from Reddit users. Instead of cutting-and-pasting a comment or linking back to it, writers just have to click on its permalink and select “embed” for its code. Read More

Taipei-Based Accelerator AppWorks Launches $50M Startup Fund

Taipei Tech startups in Taiwan have the benefits of plentiful engineering talent and great hardware manufacturers. What they often lack, however, is money to fuel post-seed stage growth and guidance on what markets to tackle next. AppWorks, an accelerator program based in Taipei, wants to solve both problems with a new $50 million multistage venture fund. Read More