On Friday, in a statement South Korea’s SK Group said, it will invest up to $100 million in the fintech unit of AirAsia Group Bhd. BigPay, a unit of AirAsia’s digital arm, offers a prepaid debit card, local and international money transfers, micro-insurance, bill payments and a budgeting tool. “Our ambition has always been to establish…
On Tuesday, Southeast Asian online automotive marketplace Carro said, it has raised $360 million in its latest funding round that was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, becoming the region’s latest unicorn. “The valuation for the company is well over a billion dollars,” said Carro, Aaron Tan, the CEO and founder of Singapore-headquartered Carro. Carro…
In a statement French insurer Axa said one of its businesses in Asia was hit by a ransomware attack. It is now investigating the cyber incident. Hackers were able to access some of its data in Thailand. The cyber attack on its Asia Assistance division impacted IT operations in Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and in…
In a statement, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc said, they had taken down more than dozen disinformation networks used by state-backed groups and political entities in multiple countries to deceive users on their platforms. As part of that effort, they had identified and suspended more than 3,500 accounts between them, which used fake identities and…
On Tuesday, in a statement, China’s social media and gaming group Tencent said, it plans on opening a new office in Singapore which will be its regional hub for Southeast Asia. “The new office is a strategic addition to our current offices in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand,” said the company in a statement.
In a significant development that underscores a growing trend of companies leaving China and relocating to neighboring countries, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd stated, it has stopped the production of mobile telephones in China. The permanent shuttering of Samsung’s last China phone factory comes in the wake of it cutting production volumes at its plant in…
One year back, while speaking at a conference hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society, Bill Gates had “predicted” that a super-virus pandemic breaking out in China could potentially kill 33 million people around the globe in a span of just 6 months. Gates had warned that the world was at risk from super-pathogens spreading quickly…
Thailand is more sensitive about the price of setting up its 5G networks than its national security. On Friday, despite calls from the United States to to its allies to bar China’s Huawei Technologies from building next generation mobile networks, Thailand launched a test bed for the Chinese telecom giant. Huawei is facing growing pressure…
Through this strategic move, Grab is expanding from its core ride-hailing services into other areas including electronic money transfers, loans, payment services and food delivery. Through GrabFresh, it now serves on-demand grocery deliveries. It is targetting revenues of $1 billion by the end of 2018. On Tuesday, in a strategic move that banks on its…
Investors and operators of digital currencies who want to do transactions with digital currencies will have to register with Thailand’s SEC, the sole authority for regulating digital assets, within 90 days. On Tuesday, Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission’s chief stated it expects to issue regulations on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICO) by the end…
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