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Apple moves to expand its US manufacturing at Mesa, Arizona site
Apple has submitted a proposal to expand its manufacturing capabilities at a site in Mesa, Arizona where it already produces certain components for its consumer products. Read More
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‘Uber for logistics’ startup Lalamove raises $30M to expand beyond 100 cities in Asia
Lalamove, a Hong Kong-based logistics on-demand service, has closed a $30 million Series B as it begins to consider a public listing. Read More
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China’s Tencent takes on the App Store with launch of ‘mini programs’ for WeChat
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, a device that practically invented the smartphone genre in itself, but, over in China, a more modern bellwether of the mobile industry rolled out its own innovation which could shape the future. Read More
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HMD’s first Nokia smartphone is heading to China
Nokia fans hankering to get their hands on a new smartphone with their beloved brand name — and without Microsoft’s unloved mobile OS — will need to go to China if they want to buy the first Android-powered from the Finnish phone maker that’s now licensing Nokia’s IP for phones. Read More
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Carousell eats up another struggling startup to boost its social commerce app in Southeast Asia
Newly minted classifieds startup Carousell is officially on the prowl to eat up struggling startups in Southeast Asia. The Singapore-based company closed a $35 million Series B in August, and this week it acquired Malaysia-based rival Duriana in an undisclosed transaction that represents its third piecemeal M&A deal since that fundraising. Read More
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Huawei to pre-load Amazon’s Alexa AI on US version of its Mate 9 flagship
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is having a good CES. Not only landing inside additional speaker hardware but finding entirely new incarnations in other connected household items — such as a lamp, a smart fridge and even a robot vacuum cleaner. Cars are on the cards too. Read More
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China’s Didi looks to Latin America with $100M investment in Brazil-based Uber rival 99
There’s much talk of Didi Chuxing’s desire to expand overseas now that it has agreed to gobble up Uber’s China business, and it just took a big step to extending its international reach via a maiden deal in South America. Read More
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Apple pulls NYT apps from China’s App Store to comply with “local regulations”
For Chinese citizens, there’s now one less loophole in the country’s comprehensive censorship of Western media outlets. According to the The New York Times, on December 23, Apple removed the Chinese versions of the newspaper’s apps as well as their English counterparts in an act of compliance with the Chinese government. In an explanation to the Times, Apple noted that… Read More
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China’s Mobike raises $215M led by Tencent for its bicycle sharing service
Bicycle sharing services are primed to be a major focus for China’s startup scene this year. Now today, only the fourth day of 2017, comes the first mega-round for the space after Mobike announced its $215 million Series D funding. Read More
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Snow, the Asian Snapchat clone Facebook tried to buy, claims 40-50M monthly users
Asian Snapchat clone Snow caught the attention of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who tried unsuccessfully to buy it last year, and it is continuing to grow steadily. The app’s Korean parent Naver today confirmed it crossed 100 million downloads in December, with 40-50 percent of its user base active on the app each month. Read More
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Southeast Asia grocery delivery startup HappyFresh changes its CEO
It’s fair to say that HappyFresh, one of a number of startups working to make the business of on-demand grocery shopping viable in Southeast Asia, didn’t have a great 2016. Read More
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Tencent launches venture to find new music, video and writing talent in Southeast Asia
Platforms like Musical.ly and Vine have helped find the next-generation of internet stars, and Chinese internet giant is aiming to ride that digital media wave to help grow its presence in Southeast Asia. Read More
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Paytm, India’s top mobile payments firm, gets approval to launch its own digital bank
India leading mobile payments company Paytm has announced that it has formally received permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to launch a digital bank. Read More
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Twitter’s controversial head of China is the latest exec to leave the company
The Twitter executive exodus continues. CTO Adam Messinger and COO Adam Bain are among those to have left the company in recent months and now you can add Twitter’s head of its business in China to that list. Read More
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Alibaba is back on U.S. blacklist of “notorious marketplaces”
The USTR dropped its annual blacklist calling out marketplaces that are rife with counterfeit and pirated goods this week. Many of the shopping centers and sites listed in this “Special 301” report were absolutely predictable, like Beijing’s Silk Market, St. Petersburg-based social network VK.com, or The Pirate Bay, which was formed by an anti-copyright group in the… Read More
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New regulations could limit Didi’s taxi on-demand service in China’s top cities
There’s trouble in China for ride-sharing services after authorities in Beijing and Shanghai instituted new regulations that forbid people not officially registered as living in either city from working for services like Didi Chuxing or Uber. Read More
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iPrice raises $4M for its e-commerce aggregator service in Southeast Asia
iPrice, an 18-month old e-commerce aggregation service that’s active in seven countries in Southeast Asia, has closed a $4 million Series A funding round. Read More
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