September 27, 2018
Today’s top tech news, Sept. 27: Tencent, Alibaba chase remittances in battle for Southeast Asia
Both companies recently launched money-transfer services that allow Hong...
August 13, 2018
Today’s top tech news, August 13: Grab allows image sharing and Tesla gets sued
Also, SweetEscape raises a million dollars and Base.vn nabs funding from 500...
May 9, 2018
Today’s top tech news, May 09: Walmart confirms US$16B investment in Flipkart
The remainder of the business will be held by some of Flipkart’s existing...
February 28, 2018
Indian music streaming company Gaana claims 60M monthly active users; raising US$115M led by Tencent
Gaana will use the capital to leverage Artificial...
February 13, 2018
Southeast Asia’s gaming industry is on a growth trajectory, and here’s why
Gaming revenue is increasing year after year across the region and Southeast...
January 19, 2018
Today’s top tech news, January 19: More details emerged on the latest funding round of Carousell
We also have updates from tech giants such as Google, Tencent, Uber, SoftBank,...
January 18, 2018
Kickstart Ventures and Tencent jointly invest in Canadian media company Wattpad
This investment is part of Wattpad’s new US$51 million funding round...
November 2, 2017
Tencent’s China Literature US$1.1B IPO speaks volumes about value of IP in China
China Literature offered 151.37 million shares globally at an indicated range of...
October 11, 2017
It is official: Ola announces US$1.1B led by Tencent to add AI and Machine Learning capabilities
Ola is currently in advanced talks with other investors to close an...
August 16, 2017
Captain’s Log, Aug 16: Uber in talks with SoftBank, Didi Chuxing, others for US$12B funding; Singapore to test on-demand bus services
Also in the new is Indonesian P2P lending platform Modalku’s...