Overseas:
1. US share markets sink as sell-off continues
2. The World’s Best Employers 2018: Alphabet Leads As U.S. Companies Dominate List
3. Venture capitalist Gene Munster predicts tech stocks will fall another 5%
4. Facebook deletes Russian firm’s accounts over alleged data scraping
5. Apple gets critical iPhone technology (the power-management technology) in $600 million Dialog deal
7. Dialog Semiconductor signs $600 million licensing deal with Apple
8. Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth
9. Papa raises $2.4M for its ‘grandkids-on-demand’ service
10. Instagram tests tapping instead of scrolling through posts, first in Explore
11. App Store generated 93% more revenue than Google Play in Q3
13. Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
14. Snowflake, a cloud data warehousing provider, secures $450M
China:
1. China stocks hit lowest level in nearly four years
2. Tencent is suffering a one-two punch from the tech stock sell-off
3. Foxconn’s Sept revenue jumps, buoys hopes for solid sales at Apple
4. China’s Alipay says stolen Apple IDs behind thefts of users’ money
5. Tencent Music will reportedly postpone IPO due to global market sell-off
6. Gobi Partners commits to invest $50m in women-founded startups
7. JD.Com Poaches From 7-Eleven to Open 1 Million Convenience Stores
8. Hello Chuxing published car hailing service
9. OPPO launched Hyper Boost technology to optimize mobile phones.
Blockchain:
1. China’s central bank recruiting cryptography experts to help develop its own digital money
2. Blockchain Finance Startup Clearmatics Raises $12 Million in New Funding
Emerging Market:
1. Indonesian furniture e-tailer Dekoruma raises several million dollars
2. Singapore fintech startup hoolah raises 7-figure round to boost online purchases
3. Vietnamese carmaking startup VinFast gets US$950 million credit line
4. Sachin Bansal may back Ola with US$100M investment
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