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FashionValet, early e-commerce pioneer and Malaysian startup poster-child, sold in fire sale
Cut-price deal for 15 year-old company underscores difficulties of a maturing e-commerce market—and the hammer blow Covid dealt offline retail
 • Ka-Kay Lum and Jon Russell
Indonesia arrests Gojek founder in digital education corruption case
Ex-minister Nadiem Makarim accused of bypassing rules to push Google Chromebooks in nationwide schools program
 • Jon Russell
China obstructs India’s manufacturing rise with Foxconn bans
Beijing is playing hard ball, while Indonesia takes Apple to task and the US goes after Tencent
 • Jon Russell
How China’s DeepSeek quietly outpaced the US in the global AI race
“Small” AI startup shows how China can compete with Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia’s startup woes continue
 • Jon Russell
Gojek’s Vietnam exit signals a new chapter in its battle with Grab
GoTo’s decision to leave Vietnam is rare move based on logic, and not rivalry, narrative or money—and that’s new
 • Jon Russell
Tech In Asia gets the exit and acquirer we all expected
Singapore Press Holdings is the obvious buyer at a $30 million price tag
 • Jon Russell
Tencent has a new blockbuster game on its hands
Black Myth: Wukong races to 10M sales; head of $14B crypto scam is arrested and more
 • Jon Russell
The Sequoia Empire is over—what next?
The world's most successful venture capital firm is splitting into three—this is just the start and there are many questions, future rivalries and…
 • Jon Russell
VNG, Vietnam’s first tech unicorn, hit with mystery investigation
VNG has new CEO, Alibaba to accept WeChat and Malaysian fund responds to ATR
 • Jon Russell
Grab faces fresh competition in Thailand, Southeast Asia's most fiercely contested on-demand market
A consortium is buying Robinhood in a move that shows corporations still dominate the startup scene in Thailand
 • Jon Russell
Southeast Asia regresses to pre-unicorn era of VC funding
New report shows Southeast Asia lags other emerging markets as exits continue to be elusive
 • Jon Russell
Meta’s $2.5B Manus deal is historic for Asia, but it isn’t Singapore’s win
Chinese AI startups find a new path but with their domestic market surging, do they even need it?
 • Jon Russell
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