Overseas:
1. The EU will reportedly investigate Apple following anti-competition complaint from Spotify
2. Apple buys a company every few weeks, having acquired 20 to 25 companies in the past six months
3. Microsoft launches a new platform for building autonomous robots
4. Microsoft Word will offer writers all kinds of help with its new AI-power editor
6. SendBird snags additional $50M for messaging API tool, as it extends Series B to $102M
7. Health coaching app Noom will expand its product team after raising $58M led by Sequoia
8. Trusted Health raises $20 million to match nurses with temporary, travel, and staff jobs
China:
4. Sequoia Capital China to cut 20% of investment staff as tech industry slows
5. Tencent-backed health care giant DXY expands to cosmetic medicine
7. China’s Luckin Coffee 瑞幸咖啡 seeks to raise up to $510m in US IPO
8. China’s video game live-streaming platform DouYu 斗鱼 to delay $500m IPO amid trade jitters
9. Chinese social e-commerce platform Yunji 云集 raises $121m in US IPO
10. GGV-backed Chinese SaaS startup Black Lake Technologies 黑湖智造 raises $22m in Series B
Cross border:
1. China’s Sogou, Abu Dhabi Media to Launch World’s First Arabic AI News Anchor
4. Irish Startup Umba Taps Into Africa’s Competitive Mobile Payment Market
Emerging Market:
1. Grocery startup BigBasket becomes India’s newest unicorn with new $150M investment
2. Thunes raises $10M to make financial services more accessible in emerging markets
3. Indonesian investment app Stockbit raises series A funding
4. Indonesian trucking platform Ritase secures Series A funding
5. Myanmar-based trucking startup raises $800k from Cocoon Capital, others
6. Brunei-based agritech startup Agrome IQ nets six-figure investment in pre-series A round
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