CHINA:
1. Apple will remove thousands of unlicensed iPhone games in China from next month
2. China’s Didi aims for 1 million robotaxis on its platform by 2030
3. WeRide, Alibaba’s AutoNavi expand roll-out of robotaxis in Guangzhou’s ride-hailing services market
4. China’s Fosun in talks to sell $1.3b stake in Alibaba’s Cainiao
5. Tencent lands another mobile game hit as Brawl Stars rakes in USD 17.5 million in first week
6. Trip.com is offering heavy discounts to reignite travel demand
7. Zero2IPO Leads $14M Series B Round In Chinese Biotech Firm Sophonix
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Indonesian ride-hailing firm Gojek cuts 9% of headcount
2. Sequoia invests in Singapore quantum computing startup Horizon
3. SG-based credit scoring firm Trusting Social said to close $19m Series B round
4. Singapore’s options trading platform Sparrow raises US$3.5M Series A led by BitMEX owner
5. India: Co-working startup 91springboard raises $5.9m in fresh funding
6. India’s grocery delivery startup Milkbasket raises US$5.5M led by Inflection Point
7. India: Edtech startup Vedantu invests $2m in doubt solving app Instasolv
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Disney+ to debut in eight more countries in Europe
2. Apple supplier Foxconn eyes further investment in India, sees bright outlook there
3. Alibaba’s logistics unit Cainiao to expand overseas reach and speed up delivery times
4. Blackstone invests $150m in Chinese data centre service provider 21Vianet
5. S Korea’s Hyundai Motor, LG Chem mull EV battery JV in Indonesia
OVERSEAS:
1. Brazil suspends WhatsApp’s new payments system
2. Amazon is launching a $2 billion fund to invest in climate technologies
4. Apple will stop using Intel chips in all Macs by 2021, top analyst says
5. Facebook kills off its cheapest VR headset
6. Mastercard to buy fintech firm Finicity in $825 million deal
7. Mercedes-Benz, Nvidia partner to bring ‘software-defined’ vehicles to market in 2024
8. Lyft crowdsources driver data to train its autonomous vehicle systems
9. Denver’s DispatchHealth Nabs Nearly $136M In Series C
10. Swile raises $78.7 million for its corporate lunch card and benefits app
11. Somatus Raises $64M Series C To Accelerate Kidney Disease Diagnosis
12. Nylas Closes $25M Series B To Drive Global Expansion Of Communication Platform
13. AI chatbot firm Rasa raises $26M funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel
14. Tatch raises $4.25M to build a patch that helps diagnose sleep disorders
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