OVERSEAS:
1. How customers feel about Amazon’s Prime Day glitch
2. Yahoo Messenger shuts down after 20 years
3. Late-Stage Deals Led The World’s Venture Capital Market in Q2 2018
5. PayPal leads $50M round for PPRO, a profitable cross-border payment specialist
CHINA:
1. iQiyi Acquires Mobile Game Developer Skymoons for RMB 2 Bln
2. M-commerce Firm Pinduoduo to Raise Up to USD 1.63 bln in Nasdaq IPO
3. Booking Holdings Invests USD 500 Mln in Didi Chuxing, Forms Strategic Partnership
4. Didi Chuxing Spins Out Auto Services Platform in Preparation for IPO
5. Fresh Food M-commerce Platform ‘The Good Stuff’ Wins USD 50 Mln Funding
6. Apparel Social Commerce Platform Haoyiku Raises RMB 9-digit Series B
7. NetEase to Start New-round CB of Mobile MOBA ‘Chaowei Duijue’ on July 27
8. Alibaba’s Ele.me Seeks USD 2 Bln in Funding to Compete with Meituan Dianping
10. AI-based Business Intelligence Solutions Provider ImageDT Completes Series A
11. JD.com’s Upgraded Smart Vending Machine Combines Visual Recognition, Gravity Sensors
12. World’s largest dating app for gays Grindr sets up shop in Taiwan
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Alipay, Singapore Tourism Board Ally to Increase Spending by Chinese Tourists
BLOCKCHAIN:
1. Walmart’s Latest Patent Unveils Blockchain-Based Delivery Management System
3. China sees sixfold surge in new companies with ‘blockchain’ in name
EMERGING MARKET:
1. Video conference calling app YeeCall raises US$5M to develop various blockchain solutions
2. Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C from Sequoia India, SAIF and Nexus
3. Singapore’s CCube Angels invests in India’s nutri-food startup Inner Being