CHINA:

1 Chinese EV industry reaches a tipping point amid wider user adoption

2 A sum of china’s tech firms rush to deliver solutions for grocery shopping

3 Suning.com’s e-commerce and online retail unit raises $912m Series A funding

4 Chinese retailer Suning.com mulls e-commerce business stake sale

5 Chinese commercial satellites developer Chang Guang raises $374m

6 Chinese smart city operator CCI nets $76m in a pre-D funding round

7 Cloudwise, corporate digital solutions provider, raises $60m

8 SoftBank backs FineMEMS’s (Senors & System product) $30m Series D

9 China’s Flexible Screen Unicorn Royole Aims For IPO

10 Ziroom Acquires Bestbond, Expanding Business Amid Rental Industry Bankruptcy Buzz

11 Chinese media lay into New York-listed home rental platform Danke as they urge authorities to not let exploiters get away

 

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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:

1 Indian SaaS startups to capture 7-9% global marketshare by 2022

2 Agritech startups are using modern tech to solve key problems in Indian agriculture

3 India’s Oyo still has $1 billion in cash

4 Indian talent intelligence startup Eightfold AI gets unicorn tag with $125m funding

5 Indian edtech startup for government exams Habitat raises $679k in seed round

6 Indonesia’s Pintek bags $5m led by Finch Capital

7 East Ventures backs Desty, Indonesia’s s-commerce solution platform

8 Singapore’s Tazapay raises $3.2m led by Sequoia India’s Surge

9 Singapore messaging startup, Aampe raises $1.8M from Surge

10 SG’s Saas Platform Credify raises seed funding

11 Thailand is set to dominate Southeast Asia’s IPO market in 2020, says Deloitte

12 Thai e-commerce distributor N-Squared raises Series A to expand across SEA

13 Quest Ventures leads $750k round in Kazakhstan HR tech startup Clockster

14 Pakistani fashion e-commerce startup Clicky.pk snags $700k

 

CROSS-BORDER:

1 American investors could pay the price as the U.S. moves to blacklist more Chinese firms

2 Stack Overflow, an online developer community partners with Times Bridge to launch SaaS platform in India

4 Police seize $4 billion, US worried about China’s crypto lead

5 NEC’s next CEO eyes global 5G demand as pressure on Huawei mounts

6 Sherpa Ventures launches $1m debut fund for African tech startups

 

OVERSEAS:

1 Online sales reach $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday, the biggest U.S. e-commerce day ever

2 Amazon and Apple Shift From Intel’s Chips, Driving Industry Change

3 Amazon launches new AI services for DevOps and business intelligence applications

4 Amazon debuts Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training in the cloud

5 Google launches Android Enterprise Essentials, a mobile device management service for small businesses

6 Facebook-backed Libra Association has been renamed Diem

7 SoftBank arm buys 10.1% stake in Swedish cloud computing firm Sinch

8 Qualcomm announces the new Snapdragon 888 chip

9 S&P’s plan to buy IHS may draw antitrust scrutiny from Biden administration

10 Olive, AI healthcare Brings In $225.5M To Become Unicorn

11 Flock Freight, digital logistics provider Lands SoftBank-led $113.5M Series C

12 Proscia Captures $23M Series B For Digital Pathology Software

13 S Korea’s Chai Pay, mobile payment app raises $16.7m investment

14 Australian fintech startup Limepay bags $15.4m in pre-IPO round

15 YC-backed BuildBuddy raises $3.15M to help developers build software more quickly

16 Russian lender Sberbank bets on e-commerce as it seeks to expand beyond banking

17 Rig maker Canaan misses Bitcoin surge, losses top $12 million

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