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The Chinese home-dining retailer, Guoquan, is planning to extend its business to Hong Kong. This move signifies the company’s first initiative outside Mainland China, aligning with their international expansion plans. The retailer anticipates the launch of…
Chinese fintech titan, Alipay, is ramping up its endeavors in AI-driven commerce with the introduction of an innovative AI payment infrastructure devised to bolster the burgeoning “agentic economy”. As per a press release issued on Monday, Alipay unveiled the…
In the coming year, the majority of stablecoin launches in Asia are predicted to fail, according to recent projections from research and advisory firm Forrester. In their 2026 Payments Predictions report, they estimate that 80% of local stablecoin launches in…
Despite previous assurances of releasing an improved Siri, Apple has yet to introduce any significant artificial intelligence (AI) features. However, the company is still ambitious about its AI agenda for 2026, with a significant update planned for the Health…
South Korea’s NAVER Corp. is making waves in the tech world with the launch of NAVER Ventures, its new global investment arm based in Silicon Valley. This initiative aims to support early-stage startups in North America and turbocharge the company’s global…
NTT Docomo Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Group, has made an investment in Singapore-headquartered cloud-based enterprise management solutions provider Kpisoft. NTT Docomo Ventures has acquired shares of Kpisoft through its third-party allotment,…
Singapore-based campus social marketplace Get has closed a US$2.5 million funding round led by Vertex Ventures, the VC arm of Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek. Existing angel investor Click Ventures also joined in. Get will use the funds to further…
INDONESIA’S eFishery, a smart fish feeder manufacturer, said it has secured pre-Series A funding from Dutch aquaculture investment fund Aqua-spark and Indonesian venture capital (VC) firm Ideosource. eFishery did not disclose the investment amount, but said…
