CHINA:
2. WeChat Joins Industry Peers in COVID-19 Hackathon to Combat Pandemic
3. Huawei tilts to telecom business as Beijing prepares big 5G push
5. Ride-Hailing Giant Didi Chuxing To Launch C2C Car Rental Service
6. Didi announces management reshuffle and 3-year plan of 100 million daily orders
7. SF’s 100B Yuan Revenue Bodes a War for Market Share in China’s Express Delivery Sector
8. SFMAP Technology (spinning-off from SF in 2018) bags $14m in Series A round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Singapore robo-advisory startup Smartly winds down operations
2. Indian e-retailers resume services during countrywide COVID-19 lockdown
3. Panic buying by shoppers holds up India’s BigBasket’s deliveries
4. Softbank-backed Indian company Ola seeks relief for drivers, taxi firms
5. KKR-backed IndiGrid acquires transmission asset from Sterlite for $134m
6. Indonesia’s VCs brace for barren year for exits on account of COVID-19
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Facebook reportedly in talks to buy stake in India’s biggest telco Reliance Jio
OVERSEAS:
1. UK’s National Health Service launches £500,000 COVID-19 tech competition
2. Self-reporting app for COVID-19 symptoms for UK research sees 650K downloads in 24 hours
4. WeWork’s new crisis: Workplaces may never be the same after COVID-19
5. Google’s AI helps robots navigate around humans in offices
6. IBM’s AI generates new footage from video stills
7. Hospital-Disinfecting Robots: Xenex Sees Surge In Orders As COVID-19 Pandemic Escalates
8. Online marketplace OfferUp raises $120M, acquires top competitor letgo
9. Enterprise service management startup Espressive Raises $30M Series B To Automate Help Desks
10. Humio Raises $20M For Its Real-Time Log Management Platform
11. SecondNature raises $16.4M for ‘healthy home’ subscription products like air and water filters
12. Battery analytics software startup Twaice raises €11M Series A led by Creandum
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