Sitemap - 2026 - Asia Tech Review
Anthropic is finally opening an office in Singapore
Grab doubles down on fintech with $1.5B deal to acquire Atome
AI helped Pocket FM double its revenue but it can’t buy taste
Alibaba eyes former intern’s AI infrastructure company in $300 million deal
Circle is buying Singapore’s Tazapay for $400 million
Moonshot’s massive IPO means Chinese AI companies need to start making big money
MiniMax and Z.ai are growing up with big revenue jumps but a lot more spending
Shein’s underwhelming IPO reflects rush to go public and uncertain business model
Thailand and OpenAI launch an accelerator programme for AI startups
Southeast Asia sees world’s fastest e-commerce growth
Two new private credit funds land in Asia for tech and climate
Shein set for Hong Kong IPO at heavily discounted valuation of $27B
Kakao bets on AI with controversial spinout proposal
Apple Pay’s slow journey of progress across Asia
Razorpay plays up its AI smarts as it heads to an IPO
Alibaba’s AI strategy bears fruit with 3 billion downloads and an impressive new model
Sea looks like Southeast Asia’s true internet giant
DeepSeek enters a new era of raised ambition and higher prices
Grab bets on fintech to reinforce its tech story
Alibaba, Moonshot and the US government squabble over what trained Kimi K3
CXMT rises with blockbuster IPO as SK Hynix sinks despite record earnings
South Korea’s AI windfall is driving global investment deals
Malaysia clips Network School’s nomad ambitions
Moonshot takes the limelight as China gets political with AI
SK Hynix’s $26.5B US listing tests the AI memory boom
Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds are doubling down on AI startup investments
China’s AI firms are levelling up their strategies
Robotics startups are emerging from Southeast Asia, with Singapore at the centre
Shopee calls in friends from Instagram and YouTube to fend off TikTok
Indonesia jails Nadiem Makarim, its startup poster boy
South Korea goes all in on AI with $880B investment plan
Fintech Mynt plans to raise $1.5 billion in Philippines’ largest IPO
Airwallex dives deep into AI services and is now worth $11 billion
Reliance Jio heads for record India IPO but it hasn’t earned its internet platform tag yet
Meta forks out $1 billion for a new CEO to supercharge WhatsApp in India
Indonesia’s startup malaise continues as four VCs sentenced to prison
100x100 is a freshly rebranded climate VC for Asia with $100M to spend
Respond.io puts Malaysia on the global software map with huge $62.5M investment
PatSnap IPO could lead Southeast Asian startups to listings in Hong Kong
Anthropic puts sovereign AI on Asia's agenda
Anthropic isn’t at SuperAI in Singapore but it stole the show all the same
Infrastructure specialist StepFun is China’s next AI IPO contender
DayOne and AirTrunk put Singapore in the data centre spotlight
Anthropic is missing out on Asia
Vietnam’s VinFast bets on EV taxis in Asia
MiniMax reports big growth as it plans Mainland China listing
Airwallex is upping its PR game as links to China persist
ByteDance hikes its AI spending to $70 billion in 2026
Southeast Asia is sleepwalking into a data sovereignty crisis
AI is killing the lower priced smartphone in emerging markets
Manus founders seek $1B to buy company back from Meta
Singapore lands OpenAI, Google and Nvidia as it bids to be global AI hub
Uber eyes Korea's Baemin as Asia ambitions return
Apple Pay stalls in India as Kalshi and Polymarket test the rules
India’s Rapido raises $240M more to intensify its fight with Uber
Alibaba bets on AI’s future. Tencent is cashing in now
Shopee is still growing like crazy
Amazon failed in Southeast Asia because it never even tried
China’s Wild West of cheap access to Claude, ChatGPT and more
Hong Kong fintech Reap is being bought by US crypto giant Kraken for $600 million
TikTok doubles down on Southeast Asia with $25B data centre investment
Thailand’s True Money wants to use stablecoins to ease overseas spending and investing
Grab reports profit, growth despite Southeast Asia fuel crisis
Singapore fintech Aspire takes aim at the US market
ATR Daily: eFishery founder gets 9-year jail term as Indonesia’s startup reckoning deepens
ATR Daily: GoTo scores first profitable quarter thanks to fintech growth and TikTok
ATR Daily: China wants to unwind Meta-Manus
Salmon catches $100M in fresh funding for Philippines digital banking push
ATR Daily: SK Hynix posts record profits as AI boom drives valuation toward $600B
ATR Daily: Tencent wants to give everyone access to OpenClaw
ATR Daily: Payments are boring but they’re getting more exciting in Southeast Asia
Indonesia’s startup ecosystem goes on trial (twice)
Grab launches new AI services to again push its creds as a tech company
Microsoft throws billions more into AI and cloud spending across Asia
Grab gobbles down Foodpanda to expand to Taiwan
PhonePe’s postponed listing may freeze India’s IPO pipeline
India is the world’s AI growth market, but China is where OpenClaw is taking off
China is obsessed with OpenClaw
A top VC in Thailand stole millions of dollars through a crypto investment scam
DayOne: The Singapore flip riding the AI wave to a multi-billion IPO
DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot once again called out for plagiarising US AI services
Grab is all grown up and acting like a public company (but investors still aren’t happy)
Thailand’s top startups forced to look overseas for IPOs
India's Peak XV sees more senior departures after recent IPO exits
Y Combinator reaps big rewards in India but its future in Asia is long over
South Korean companies are making hay in the AI boom
PhonePe prepares for billion-dollar India fintech IPO
TikTok US deal looks like a major win for ByteDance
India’s government stages an intervention over 10-minute delivery promise
Billionaire scam kingpin in Southeast Asia arrested and extradited to China
Meta’s $2.5B Manus deal is historic for Asia, but it isn’t Singapore’s win