Asia
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Winter is ending: China to restart game approvals
As 2018 draws to a close, China’s gaming industry — which has been beaten by a nine-month-long freeze in license…
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SoftBank’s Vision Fund is preparing to invest $1 billion in Grab
SoftBank’s Vision Fund is set to continue its recent spree of investments in Asian tech unicorns. The mega fund —…
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Trends
Facebook purges more ‘bad actors’ in Myanmar but it still won’t commit to a local office
As Facebook continues to grasp the severity of the situation in Myanmar, where the UN has concluded that its social…
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Tech
2019 will be a pivotal year for Southeast Asian tech startups
With a rising middle class and a booming tech startup scene, Southeast Asia (SEA) sits where China did 10 years…
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Tesla’s China factory and the missed growth opportunity
Tesla made its ambition for world domination known when it announced its intention to build a factory in China. The…
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Trends
Google reportedly shuts down its Chinese censored search project
Google has stopped developing its censored search engine for China, known as project Dragonfly. The tech giant was forced to…
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Finance
How a Chinese anti-virus software maker builds a fintech firm to wrestle with giants
360 Finance, an online consumer loan platform that spun off from China’s anti-virus service giant 360 Group, has joined a…
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Moglix raises $23M to digitize India’s manufacturing supply chain
We hear a lot about India’s e-commerce battle between Walmart, which bought Flipkart for $17 billion, and Amazon. But over…
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Ola, Uber’s India rival, invests $100M in scooter rental startup Vogo
We’re familiar with Uber cozying up to scooter startups — it has bought one and invested in another — but…
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