China:
3. Beijing-based PE firm Primavera Capital raises $3.4b fund: Report
4. Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales top $38 billion
5. Tencent falls $90b behind e-commerce giant Alibaba after NBA China Clash
7. Hillhouse Capital leads Series A Round in Chinese industrial internet firm AllSense
8. RTShield 端御科技, information security technology company, raised A round of financing
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Mobile-only Markets:
1. UAE-based fintech startup Tabby raises $2m in seed funding
Cross-Border:
1. Tencent partners with Nintendo on console games for US
2. Alibaba, US startup Lolli partner to reward shoppers with bitcoin
3. Tencent invests in Indian online insurance platform Policybazaar
Overseas:
1. MAS, Temasek develop blockchain-based prototype for multi-currency payments
2. Balderton Capital raises new $400M fund to back European tech startups at Series A
3. Singapore’s Beenext looks to raise $100m for Emeging Asia fund
4. SoftBank-backed Paytm to invest $70m in early-stage tech startups
5. Twitter drafts a deepfake policy that would label and warn, but not always remove, manipulated media
6. Google wants Chrome to offer instantaneous and native app-like experiences
7. Google Chrome to identify and label slow websites
8. Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speedfactory closures
9. Prosus makes $6.3B hostile bid for Just Eat; Just Eat rejects deal in favor of Takeaway merger
10. BGH Capital, Canada’s OTPP to buy NZ dental business Abano for $95.4m
11. Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform Workmate bags $5.2m in series A round
12. OpenText acquires data backup and security platform Carbonite for $1.42 billion
14. Stingray-inspired spacecraft could eventually probe the atmosphere of Venus
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