CHINA:
1. China Has 198,000 5G Base Stations by March
2. Chinese tech firm NetEase eyes Hong Kong secondary listing
3. Chinese designer toy brand Pop Mart nets over $100m ahead of HK IPO
4 .Jack Ma’s online platform MYbank plans $282b crisis lending spree
5. Pharmaceutic company Immunophage Biotech Gets $14M In Pre-A Round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Mobile POS startup Cashlez goes public in Indonesia as it eyes expansion
2. Indonesia’s B2B FMCG marketplace GudangAda raises $25.4m from Sequoia, Alpha JWC, Wavemaker
3. Singapore biotech firm RWDC bags $133m in series B money
4. Indian consumer startups see surge in sales as bigger peers struggle
5. Indian B2B edtech platform Classplus bags $9m in series A funding
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Uber Eats exits Saudi Arabia and Egypt, transfers business to Careem Now in UAE
OVERSEAS:
1. Airbnb to Cut 25% of Work Force
2. Disney says it now has 54.5 million Disney+ subscribers
3. Fox News Media ties-up with Spotify to distribute podcasts
4. Lenovo launches new server platform with AMD data center chips
5. Microsoft to invest $1 billion in Polish cloud project
7. Virgin Galactic is partnering with NASA to develop supersonic point-to-point air travel
9. Back Market Raises $120M To Expand Refurbished Electronics Platform
10. Peter Thiel-backed digital bank N26 raises another $100 million, bracing for coronavirus uncertainty
12. Zeitgold raises $29.2M to automate bookkeeping
13. Omilia raises $20M to use conversational AI for customer support
14. Israeli cloud security startup Orca Security raises $20 million
15. Social network for women Peanut raises $12M Series A amid pandemic
16. Canada’s Tehama Raises $10M Series A For Virtual Workforce Deployment Platform
17. Treasury Prime Secures $9M Series A To Help Power Banks
19. First Dollar raises $5 million for a consumer-friendly healthcare savings account
20. Sleuth raises $3M Seed to bring order to continuous deployment
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