CHINA:
1. Baidu, Pony.ai log the most self-driving miles in Beijing
2. Sichuan doctors use 5G technology to perform remote coronavirus diagnosis in Hubei
3. Tencent extends warranty for Nintendo Switches in China as virus hits sales
4. Tencent and Black Shark joint-release first 5G gaming smartphone
5. Geely chairman Li Shufu starts satellite venture to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX
6. Huawei testing its own search app in challenge to Google
7. SoftBank has invested $1 billion in Chinese apartment rental company Ziroom 自如
8. SF Express 顺丰 unit to raise $300m through convertible bond offering
9. Softbank-backed hotel chain Oyo cutting 60% of China staff
10. Chipsets maker Metanoia raises $19.3m from Taiwania Capital, others
11. Private commercial satellite firm MinoSpace secures USD 14 million in Series A2+ round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Lightspeed Venture Partners to raise USD 300 million for third India-focused fund
2. Demand for co-working startups remains high in India
3. Uber sold its food delivery business in India to Zomato for $206M
4. India’s electric vehicle startup Bounce secures $6.5m from InnoVen Capital
6. iPrice, a platform for comparison shopping in Southeast Asia, raises $10 million Series B
7. Mastercard to lead series B round for Indonesian fintech firm Digiasia
8. Telkomsel and Microsoft team up to enhance connectivity in Indonesia
9. Indonesia’s deals platform Giladiskon secures investment from SOSV MOX
10. Fintech firm Oriente secures $20m to bolster services in the Philippines
11. Vietnamese service platform JupViec raises funding from venture builder STI
12. Singapore’s P2P knowledge sharing startup Kalpha expands to Vietnam
13. Singapore gaming startup PotatoPlay bags $500k from Play Ventures
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Russia’s Sberbank partners with China’s Huawei on cloud services
2. Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing for foreign-bound Indian students
3. Chinese smartphone maker Oppo ventures into financial services in India
OVERSEAS:
1. Gartner: Smartphone sales fell in Q4 2019, with mixed fortunes for Apple and Huawei
2. RTP Global outs new $650M early-stage fund to back tech in US, Europe, India and South-East Asia
3. Google cancels its 2020 I/O developer conference
4. Ford bets more businesses want carbon-free delivery vans
5. Facebook to scale back on its Libra plans
6. Nokia says will cut up to 148 jobs in Finland this year
7. $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100
8. Office management platform Eden buys WeWork’s Managed by Q
9. Latin America e-commerce firm Peixe in talks to buy electric scooter startup Grow
10. Music app publisher MWM raises $55.9M after generating 400 million music app downloads
11. D2C Bedding Startup Brooklinen Plans Expansion With $50M From Summit Partners
12. FiveAI raises $41 million to commercialize its self-driving technology
14. Sourcegraph raises $23 million to bring universal code search to all developers
15. French startup Le Wagon raises $19M to build a global coding bootcamp
16. Health Data Analytics Institute nabs $16 million for AI platform that predicts outcomes
17. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools
18. UnitQ raises $11 million to spot bugs in user reports with natural language processing
19. GameOn Technology scores $10.5 million in financing for sports and gaming chat platform
20. AI medtech startup Tricog nets $10.5m in series B round
22. Japanese collaboration software startup Nulab banks $5m
23. FairShake raises $3 million to automate consumer dispute filings
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