Asian Facebook clone Snow caught the attention of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who tried unsuccessfully to…
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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…
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…
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…
Meizu is the latest Chinese smartphone firm to sign a licensing deal with Qualcomm
Qualcomm was hit by a near $1 billion fine for violating China’s antitrust regulations in 2015.…
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…
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…
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…