CHINA:

1 China saw first online payment using Digital Currency Electronic Payment

2 China fines Alibaba, Tencent unit for antitrust violations

3 Tencent, CICC co-lead $153m round for Chinese fresh produce supply chain firm, Yonghui Fresh Food

4 Baidu Capital Leads $100 Million Round In Digital Healthcare Services Firm Weimai

5 JD.com ups stake in China’s grocery delivery race with $700m Xingsheng investment

6 Kuaishou Affiliate Becomes Second-largest Shareholder of Gaming Startup Rhinos Interactive

7 Eclipsed by Its Predecessor, Double 12’s Statistics Revealed

8 Busy year ahead for Chinese Tesla challengers Nio, Xpeng, as industry body forecasts 40 per cent rise in deliveries

 

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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:

1 Ride-hailing giant Ola to invest $326m to set up EV manufacturing plant in India

2 Arya raises $21M to provide farmers in India finance and post-harvest services

3 India’s PhonePe raises $20m from Flipkart

4 Vietnamese’s Homebase bags 7-figure pre-Series A round to expand property financing platform in SEA

5 Appboxo, app integration platform, snags US$1.1M seed funding

6 Indonesia’s new sovereign wealth fund may feel ripples from Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal

7 IFC provides $120m loan for LOGOS to develop logistics assets in Greater Jakarta

 

CROSS-BORDER:

1 Indian engineers lead integration of Uber Eats app in Japan, Belgium

2 US court hears appeal challenging order blocking China’s TikTok app store ban

3 Apple to remove all unlicensed games from China App Store

 

OVERSEAS:

1 Google’s apps crash in a worldwide outage.

2 Amazon Zoox unveils self-driving robotax

3 EU Council wants secure encryption and lawful data access

4 Facebook publicly launches its collaborative music video app, Collab

5 Social network firm Reddit to buy short-video platform Dubsmash

6 Vista acquires IT education platform Pluralsight for $3.5B

7 EA to buy racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2 billion, outbidding Take-Two

8 iCIMS, a recruitment firm, acquires video recruiting startup Altru for $60M

9 Indico, AI enterprise provider, raises $22 million to automate enterprise processes

10 German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor

11 Truera raises $12 million for its AI explainability platform

12 Cledara, the SaaS purchase and management platform, raises $3.4M funding

13 EdTech boom continues as IntellectoKids raises $3M from Allrise Capital and others

 

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