OVERSEAS:
1. Uber’s new Spotlight function to send canned chats to find your driver
2. Australian-owned and operated company, Airbike, is entering Canberra
3. Netflix reported second-quarter earnings
4. Uber Is Target of Federal Sex Discrimination Inquiry
5. Airbnb warned it breaches EU rules over pricing policy
CHINA:
1. P2B Online Lending Platform PPmoney Completes RMB 600 Mln Series C Funding
2. ZTE Expects to Record H1 2018 Loss of RMB 7-9 Bln
3. WeChat to Provide Enterprise Communications Solutions for Deppon Logistics
4. Chinese Car Makers FAW, Dongfeng, and Changan Establish Ride Sharing Platform
5. Ant Financial Invests in Financial News Provider Snowball’s USD 120 Mln Series D
7. Financial Service Provider Quantex 宽拓科技 Garners RMB 8-digit Series A+
8. iQiyi Reveals H1 2018 Online Movie Shared Revenue Figures
9. iFlytek Invests in Breast Cancer Detection Wearables Maker Cyrcadia Asia
10. Chinese Online Marketplace Pinduoduo Seeks to Raise $1.6 Billion in New York
11. Tik Tok announced that they hit 500M global MAU
12. Hong Kong spaces-sharing startup Campfire raises US$18 million
CROSS-BORDER:
– Mobike Deploys Shared Bikes around Japan’s Mount Fuji
BLOCKCHAIN:
1. Binance Seeks to Establish First Crypto Investor-Owned Regulated Bank in Malta
2. Blockchain Game Development Platform BlockSteam Garners RMB 8-digit Series A
3. Blockchain Media 节点财经 Jiedian Caijing (jiedian.io) raised RMB 8-digit Series Pre-A
EMERGING MARKET:
2. GEC-KIP Technology and Innovation Fund launches in Singapore with US$88 million