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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
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Ka-Kay Lum
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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
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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
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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
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Tech In Asia gets the exit and acquirer we all expected
Singapore Press Holdings is the obvious buyer at a $30 million price tag
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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
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Jon Russell
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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…
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Jon Russell
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VNG, Vietnam’s first tech unicorn, hit with mystery investigation
VNG has new CEO, Alibaba to accept WeChat and Malaysian fund responds to ATR
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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
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Jon Russell
Apple goes to war with China’s most innovative smartphone feature
The iPhone-maker is taking a hardline as its battle with Huawei spills over into apps
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Jon Russell
TikTok Shop’s suspension was supposed to help small shop owners in Indonesia—its Tokopedia takeover won’t change a thing
Indonesia’s government was inspired to help small businesses but instead it matchmade a billion-dollar deal
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Jon Russell
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Aulia Masna
TikTok is already Southeast Asia’s second largest e-commerce player
A new report shows TikTok Shop grew 4X over the last year—that’s without its addition of Tokopedia
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