East Ventures raises $27.5M seed fund for Southeast Asia, its fifth to date

 One of Southeast Asia’s longest-serving seed-stage investors has reloaded its coffers for more deals after East…

HTC outs an always listening, dual-screen smartphone with its own AI assistant

 Just when you thought HTC might be ready to hang up on its smartphone efforts, the…

Xiaomi stops disclosing annual sales figures as CEO admits the company grew too fast

 Xiaomi has forgone its tradition of revealing how many smartphones it sold the previous year. The…

Asian Netflix challenger HOOQ raises $25M more from Singtel, Sony and Warner

 HOOQ, a Netflix challenger in Southeast Asia, has raised $25 million in capital from existing investors…

PropTiger buys up troubled rival Housing.com in consolidation of India’s top real estate startups

 The saga of Housing.com, once a red-hot tech startup in India, has reached a conclusion of…

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…

‘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…

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…