CHINA:
1. Wuhan’s famous cherry blossoms bloom online as coronavirus curtails travel
2. Pinduoduo enters workplace collaboration market with Knock app
3. Baidu sets up medical subsidiary Baidu Health amid Covid-19 crisis
4. JD.com is spending $2 billion on share buyback
5. Tencent Music Entertainment sees profits grow as paying users rise
6. Tencent Games Applies New Anti-addiction System for Mobile Games
7. HK’s AMTD Digital acquiring controlling stake in insurtech startup PolicyPal
8. Mobile reading platform iReader Technology secured strategic fundraising from Baidu
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Singapore-based leading advertising company AnyMind Group acquires mobile ad platform Pokkt
2. Singapore-based medtech startup Biolidics plans to raise US$2.2M to fuel expansion
3. Indonesia’s Gojek Reportedly Lands $1.2B For Expansion
5. Binance co-launches $50m blockchain fund for India
6. Indian lending app Smartcoin secures over $7m in series A funding
7. Wealth management platform Fintso has raised $2.6 million funding from Angels
CROSS-BRDER:
1. Toyota partners with China’s Momenta on high definition maps for autonomous cars
OVERSEAS:
1. Coronavirus outbreak boosts delivery apps across Latin America
2. German travel tech startups hunker down for ‘nuclear winter’
3. Facebook to send content review contract workers home amid virus concerns
4. Uber suspends pooled rides in US and Canada to limit coronavirus spread
5. Waymo, Cruise, Argo, Pony.ai suspend self-driving tests on virus fears
6. Waymo suspends robotaxi service except for its truly driverless vehicles
7. Microsoft’s GitHub agrees to buy code-distribution start-up Npm
8. Fox to buy video streaming firm Tubi for $440 million in cash
9. Lime pauses scooter operations in select markets amid COVID-19
10. Data center giant Equinix Closes $335M Deal For New York’s Packet
11. Oura raises $28 million for its health and sleep tracking ring
12. Business banking fintech Penta raises another €18.5M
13. Refurbed raises $17 million to expand its refurbished gadget marketplace
14. U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity firm Axis Security raises $17 million
15. One, A New Digital Bank Aimed At The Middle Class, Raises $17M Series A
16. Spectro Cloud launches with $7.5M investment to help developers build Kubernetes clusters their way
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