CHINA:
1. China’s food delivery growth slows to four-year low: report
2. China could see smartphone shipments grow in 2020 amid 5G push
3. Chinese courts freeze Bitmain‘s assets worth over $1 million
4. China’s Ping An Capital closes second consumer tech fund at over $786m
5. China’s DNV Capital closes new RMB fund at $87m for AI, big data investments
6. Tencent launches anonymous social app Dengyu Jiaoyou 灯遇交友
7. SOSV-backed TravelFlan bags $7M to enhance IT, expand to new markets
8. Hong Kong proptech firm Spacious eyes overseas expansion
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Indonesian VC firm Alpha JWC raises $123m for its second fund
3. Israeli radar technology developer Arbe raises $32m led by Catalyst CEL Fund
4. Licious raises $30M to grow its meat and seafood e-commerce platform in India
5. Food tech startup HungerBox raises $12m from Paytm, others
6. Payment startup Chipper Cash raises $6M for Southern Africa expansion
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Singapore fashion platform Zilingo acquires Sri Lankan SaaS startup nCinga for $15.5M
OVERSEAS:
1. Instagram uses AI to warn users before they post offensive captions
2. Fabric’s Tel Aviv robot-powered microfulfillment center begins grocery delivery
3. Intel acquires AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2 billion
5. Gecko Robotics raises $40 million for industrial inspection robots
6. Arbe raises $32 million to bring its high-resolution radar to autonomous vehicles
7. Solve, the startup creating an interactive ‘Law & Order’ for social media, raises $20 million
8. French startup EfficientIP secures $11M from Jolt Capital to fight DDoS attacks
9. Terradepth raises $8 million to build a fleet of autonomous deep-ocean data robots
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