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CHINA ENTERTAINMENT BYTEDANCE

Tiger Global acquires stake in Bytedance through secondary transactions ByteDance has emerged as the world’s most valuable startup on the explosive popularity of its short video entertainment app TikTok.

by entrackr

2020-03-31

ISRAEL SOFTWARE AnyVision

Microsoft to sell AnyVision stake Although no evidence was found that AnyVision's facial recognition technology is used for mass surveillance in the West Bank, Microsoft will divest from the Israeli startup.

by GLOBES

2020-03-30

US Healthcare GOOGLE

Google Commits $800 Mn Covid-19 Fund To Support SMBs, Healthcare The tech giant is offering $340 Mn as Google Ads credits to SMBs

by Inc42

2020-03-30

CHINA GAME TENCENT

Chinese tech giants Tencent, Huawei team up to develop mobile cloud gaming platform, explore AR and VR in games Cloud gaming is one of the hottest areas in the industry, allowing players to stream games just like they would a movie.

by scmp

2020-03-30

CHINA SMARTPHONE HUAWEI

Huawei unveils its latest smartphone series The move came as Huawei is working to maintain the growth momentum of its smartphone business, despite the US government's restrictions and the COVID-19 outbreak.

by ChinaDaily

2020-03-27

CHINA HARDWARE Cambricon Technologies

Chinese AI Chip Unicorn Cambricon Goes Public on Shanghai Tech Board The company's operating income in 2019 hit CNY 443.94 million (USD 62.76 million), up 279.35% from the previous year.

by EqualOcean

2020-03-27

CHINA Industry 5G

5G operators gear up investment with 200b budget China's three major telecommunications companies are all betting big on 5G and gearing up for their infrastructure construction.

by ChinaDaily

2020-03-27

INDIA Telecommunication Airtel

Airtel To Team Up With Jio, Vodafone Idea To Fight Network Issues The partnership of telecoms can be facilitated through intra-circle roaming agreements.

by Inc42

2020-03-27

CHINA CONSUMER GOODS XIAOMI

Xiaomi to issue over USD 1 billion in bonds amid worldwide smartphone slump Worldwide smartphone shipments in Q2 are predicted to plunge by 26% year-on-year.

by kr-asia

2020-03-26

CHINA Healthcare TENCENT

Tencent Sets Up US$100 Million Global Anti-Pandemic Fund to Support Fight Against COVID-19 The Fund will initially focus on the sourcing and donation of medical supplies.

by companynewshq

2020-03-25

KENYA Financial Services KCB Bank

Kenya’s KCB Bank Earmarks Over USD 284 Mn For Mobile Loans As Relief For The COVID-19 Pandemic The bank says the funds will be available via its mobile lending platform, KCB M-PESA, a service operated in collaboration with Safaricom.

by WeeTracker

2020-03-25

INDIA Healthcare Invest India

Invest India Launches Platform To Meet Medical Supplies Demand For Covid-19 The Business Immunity Platform was launched on March 21, 2020.

by Inc42

2020-03-25

CHINA Healthcare tech So-Young International

So-Young Reports Fourth Quarter 2019 Unaudited Financial Results Total revenues were RMB358.2 million (US$51.4 million), a 95.7% increase from the same period of 2018 and exceeding the high-end of the Company's previous guidance of RMB340 million.

by globenewswire

2020-03-24

ISRAEL MEDIA Y-Platform

China’s Weibo Backs Y-Platform in $3.5 Million Round Y-Platform runs one of the most popular social media accounts in China, depicting the daily lives of foreigners in the country.

by CalcalisTech

2020-03-24

CHINA E-COMMERCE ALIBABA

Japan’s SoftBank plans to sell $14b in Alibaba shares SoftBank Group Corp. plans to sell about $14 billion in shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-03-24

SINGAPORE VC Temasek

SG state investor Temasek’s biggest shareholdings fall $23.5b in three months Temasek Holdings Pte’s biggest equity shareholdings and those of its subsidiaries have plunged almost $24 billion since January as the spreading coronavirus sends markets into spasms.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-03-24

CHINA AI ALIBABA CLOUD

Alibaba offers AI diagnostic tool of COVID-19 to more countries The technology has been used in over 260,000 clinical cases in 160 Chinese hospitals

by Xinhuanet

2020-03-23

CHINA CONSUMER GOODS XIAOMI

Xiaomi surpasses Huawei as third largest smartphone vendor worldwide While Samsung and Apple have remained as top two smartphone vendors in the world.

by kr-asia

2020-03-23

CHINA 5G CHINA MOBILE

China Mobile will invest 100b yuan in 5G this year China Mobile, the nation's largest telecom carrier, said on Thursday that it will invest 100 billion yuan ($14.2 billion) into 5G network construction this year.

by ChinaDaily

2020-03-20

THAILAND INSURANCE Thai Life

Thai Life seeks bank pitches for $700m IPO plan Thai Life Insurance Pcl has requested pitches from banks for an initial public offering that could raise as much as $700 million on the stock exchange of Southeast Asia.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-03-20