Products Reviews
In our review #0000008 this week, we discussed the deal between Spotify and Tencent as the former has filed to go public and SoftBank’s repeating their strategy to finance one corporate investment by borrowin against their earlier investments.
In our review #0000007 this week, we discussed how Tokopedia in Indonesia has taken over the ecommerce throne from Lazada and how Google Tez and Whatsapp’s new peer to peer service is giving Paytm a run for their money.
In our review #0000006 this week, we discussed Uber’s potential sale of their Southeast Asia assets to Grab, and why Mike Moritz does not understand about startups in China.
In our review #0000005 this week, we discussed Google’s investment in Go-Jek, predictions of the gaming business in Japan and the battle between China and US on data.
In our review #0000004 this week, we discussed the e-wallet wars between Alibaba and Tencent in Southeast Asia, Ninja Van’s recording US$87M funding news, Uber’s potential exit from Southeast Asia and the property wars between PropertyGuru and 99.co in Indonesia.
In our review #0000003 this week, we discussed the tussle of Alibaba & Didi over Ofo, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist on why the startups need to learn from China, and how South Korea’s potential ban of cryptocurrency exchanges might dent the bitcoin markets.
In our review #0000002 this week, we discussed why Hong Kong Stock Exchange is poised to be an ideal location for major Chinese technology companies to go public, the deal between Xiaomi and Facebook and how to follow the Chinese technology giants and SoftBank in their investments across Southeast Asia and India.
In the first weekly review of the year, we start with how & why UC browser from Alibaba Group is eating Google’s Chrome lunch and why Ant Financial’s acquisition of MoneyGram collapsed with our perspectives on these issues.
We restart our newsletter in a weekly format and we look forward to you subscribing to it. In future issues, we will just put the abstract here and send you to the newsletter site (which is hosted by Mailchimp). Our zeroth issue also featured a letter from our founder on what we want to do
