Trump saves TikTok from US ban… for now

China obstructs India’s manufacturing rise with Foxconn bans

WhatsApp Pay finally gets approval in India — but is it too late?

Uber ends 2024 frustrated as $950M Taiwan deal blocked

China has 230M users of generative AI services—and US companies remain popular

Apple takes the fight to Huawei in high-stakes China app store showdown

Southeast Asia's digital decade: Google, Bain and Temasek unveil report on growth, trends, and opportunities

Sophos exposes deep hacking networks in China

Asian self-driving unicorns Horizon Robotics and WeRide go public in big IPOs

China’s investment focus turns from entrepreneurship to state goals

OpenAI is setting up shop in Singapore

Inside North Korea's silent infiltration of the crypto industry: Plus, Peak XV plays it safe, a leading Korean crypto exchange eyes IPO, and more

Grab faces fresh competition in Thailand, Southeast Asia's most fiercely contested on-demand market: A consortium is buying Robinhood in a move that shows corporations still dominate the startup scene in Thailand

A Silicon Valley VC is being probed for reportedly leaking secrets to China: Hone Capital raised money from China and it is alleged to be helping Beijing; Swiggy goes to IPO and more

YouTube pairs up with Shopee to attack TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia: It’s all about social commerce—plus TSMC gets busy in US, TikTok goes to court

South Korea’s crypto comeback leaves Terra-Luna in the dust: Korean Blockchain Week shows signs traders are bullish once again and regulation is inching towards clarity

Amazon and Flipkart under the Indian antitrust microscope: Samsung and Xiaomi among big techs probed; India’s semicon ambitions ramp up and US clamps down on cheap imports

VNG, Vietnam’s first tech unicorn, hit with mystery investigation: VNG has new CEO, Alibaba to accept WeChat and Malaysian fund responds to ATR

Gojek’s Vietnam exit signals a new chapter in its battle with Grab: GoTo’s decision to leave Vietnam is rare move based on logic, and not rivalry, narrative or money—and that’s new

Indonesia and South Korea pile on Telegram over gambling and illicit content concerns: Telegram is in focus for Asia, India still going nuts for quick commerce and PDD stock crash

FashionValet, early e-commerce pioneer and Malaysian startup poster-child, sold in fire sale: Cut-price deal for 15 year-old company underscores difficulties of a maturing e-commerce market—and the hammer blow Covid dealt offline retail

Tencent has a new blockbuster game on its hands: Black Myth: Wukong races to 10M sales; head of $14B crypto scam is arrested and more

Apple is about to unlock a huge new revenue stream in China: WeChat confirms talks to use iOS payments within hugely popular mini program ecosystem

Apple goes to war with China’s most innovative smartphone feature: The iPhone-maker is taking a hardline as its battle with Huawei spills over into apps

Southeast Asian governments crack down on social media scammers: Singapore and Malaysia among those taking action in region known for world’s biggest social media addicts