CHINA:
1 China’s smart home device shipments decreased by 2.5% in Q3 2020
2 Chinese Search Engine Baidu in Talks to Jointly Make Electric Cars with Automakers
3 Bike-sharing App Mobike Ends Operations as Meituan Takes Full Control
4 China’s top chipmaker hires sought-after former TSMC executive
5 Chinese printing technology firm Apexmic bags $488m strategic investment led by ICF
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1 Advent International-led $160m Series D catapults Indian SaaS firm Zenoti into unicorn club
2 Genetic diagnostics firm Singlera nets $152.6m in Series B round
3 Steadview Capital invests $25m in IPO-bound Indian logistics unicorn Delhivery
4 Home solutions firm Wakefit.co raises $24.6m from Verlinvest, Sequoia India
5 Thiel-backed Bridgetown SPAC mulls up to $10b Tokopedia deal
6 Super app Gojek launches point-of-sale device for Indonesia’s MSMEs
7 Indonesia banks on technology to overcome food estates’ poor soil
8 CVC Capital picks 40% stake in Philippines third-party logistics group Fast for $124m
10 SG’s co-living startup Cove raises $4.6m Series A led by Keppel Land
11 Content creation platform Hashnode banks $2.1m in round led by Sequoia’s Surge
12 Thailand’s National Innovation Agency to gather support for Thai startups
CROSS-BORDER:
1 US appellate judges suggest scepticism over any attempt to ban TikTok downloads
2 Rocket Lab successfully launches satellite for Japanese startup Synspective
OVERSEAS:
1 Amazon launches a Live Translation feature for Echo devices
3 Public.com Secures $65M Series C For Social Investment Network
4 Modern Health, mental health platform, Raises $51M Series C
5 Austin’s Uhnder, digital Radar-on-Chip, Raises $45M Series C
6 Parsec raises $25M from a16z to power remote work and cloud gaming
7 Taxdoo, the tax compliance platform for cross-border e-commerce, raises $21M Series A
8 Iris Automation raises $13 million for visual drone object avoidance tech
9 Mozper Banks $3.55M To Develop Debit Card, App For LatAm Children
10 Data privacy startup eXate raises £2.3M Seed led by Outward VC
11 Roblox buys digital avatar startup Loom.ai
12 Europe’s Dott to expand beyond e-scooters with bike-sharing service
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