Overseas:
1. Podcast industry aims to better track listeners through new analytics tech called RAD
2. Bumblebees bearing high-tech backpacks act as a living data collection platform
3. VRgineers looks to set a new gold standard with their $5,800 VR headset
4. Wix launches a new suite of products for support, sales and marketing
5. Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds
6. Facebook relaunches search ads to offset slowing revenue
7. Google launches Istio on GKE
8. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable
9. National Geographic is working with YouTube and DayDream on its latest VR series
10. TechSee nabs $16M for its customer support solution built on computer vision and AR
11. A bug in Microsoft’s login system made it easy to hijack anyone’s Office account
12. Here’s how Lyft envisions self-driving cars communicating with pedestrians
13. Online liquor store Drizly just landed $34.5 million in fresh funding
14. WaveOptics nabs $26M as it sets its sights on lower-cost AR hardware
15. Coffee Meets Bagel goes anti-Tinder with a redesign focused on profiles, conversations
16. InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F
17. Hardware Club closes its $50 million fund
18. WPP to Cut 3,500 Jobs, Refocus on Creative and Data With No More Agency Mergers
China:
1. WeChat payment “receiving gifts” will be online soon
2. Luckin Coffee completed a US$200 million B-round financing and a valuation of US$2.2 billion
Cross-border:
1. Alpha JWC Ventures makes first investment in Vietnam
2. Food delivery app Deliveroo opens its first brick-and-mortar restaurant in Hong Kong
3. Mobike prepares to spin off European arm
4. Alipay WeChat is directly serviced in Russia but is being used by non-Russians
Blockchain:
Russia-based Sberbank (SBRCY) Uses Blockchain Technology to Settle Three-Way Repo Deal
Mobile:
1. AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play
2. Capture lets you grab real 3D models with your iPhone X’s powerful camera
Emerging Market:
1. Vietnamese SaaS platform Base raises US$1.3M in pre-Series A funding round
2. Hargapedia monitors, tracks and compares grocery prices in Malaysia — both offline and online
3. Singapore’s Osome raises US$2M in seed funding to enter Australia, Hong Kong
4. Thailand’s Gogoprint acquires Prinzio to expand in Indonesia
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