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Report: Meituan to raise $10b via sale of shares, convertible bonds

The Chinese food delivery major will use the money to research and develop autonomous-delivery vehicles, drone delivery, and other technology….

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Tencent Music appoints new chairman and CEO

The change in the top management comes as Tencent Music’s current chairman Tong Tao Sang is reported to step down…

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Xiaomi’s president of international business to join ByteDance as CFO

William Lu, Xiaomi Group’s vice president, will take over Shou Zi Chew’s responsibilities. Source link

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Secretlab could be Singapore’s next billion-dollar company

The Temasek-backed gaming chair startup saw its revenue rise by nearly 3x as people looked to create a more comfortable…

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Viu leads Southeast Asia’s video-streaming market with 30m users, report shows

Viu pulled in 30.5 million monthly active users from markets including Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in the fourth…

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Edtech firm that caters to Vietnam’s K-12 market nets $12m in series A round

With this latest funding, NPX Point Avenue plans to develop K-12 bilingual private schools and hybrid academies. Source link

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Singaporean plant-based meat firm bags $10m seed money from Temasek, others

Next Gen aims to expand into Southeast Asian cities that have an urban profile, such as Hong Kong, by the…

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AirAsia to launch its food delivery service in Singapore

AirAsia is currently offering the service on its main app in Malaysia. Source link

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Singapore-based social video firm Sendjoy raises $200k in seed round

Funds used from the financing round will be used to rope in a larger pool of talent from all parts…

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Report: TikTok to introduce new ecommerce tools in the US to take on Facebook

TikTok will also roll out a feature where brands can showcase catalogues of their products on the platform. Source link