While pulsating electro-pop tends to win in Europe, the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in Asia will mostly feature torch songs accompanied by traditional instruments.

So far, the contest’s organizers have kept politics offstage. The European edition shows how difficult that can be.

Which investors are writing the most checks to Thailand-based startups?

A Chinese businessman arrived in Panama with money and power. Then he sold a port when his luck turned. Now China wants him sent back.

Here's our regularly updated list of the country's biggest startup exits.

Cursor says its enterprise offering is trusted by 64% of Fortune 500 companies.

Privy says it has more than 72 million verified users and 300,000 verified businesses.

SoftBank Group sold a 1.65% stake in Meesho, a Bengaluru-based ecommerce company, for US$200 million in a block deal.

Which Indian tech players are on the rise? Our automated tracker spotlights their investment hauls in the last 10 years.

It sounds like a Bollywood thriller, but a spate of shootings and extortion threats targeting Mumbai’s stars has sent the industry scrambling for bodyguards, reviving memories of the underworld’s grip on cinema in the 1990s. From gunshots to cash demands, the incidents have unsettled the Indian industry, decades after police crackdowns weakened the criminal gangs once deeply embedded in the multibillion-dollar business. Police have linked the latest violence to the gang of Lawrence Bishnoi, a...

Knowing where the money flows matters. Check out the current fundraising landscape in China.

Indonesia has abandoned plans to make a powerful new state-owned enterprise the “sole exporter” of its palm oil, coal and ferroalloys, in a move that has reassured some businesses, even as questions over oversight and pricing remain. President Prabowo Subianto’s original proposal to tighten the government’s control over the three major commodities, put forward in May, had prompted speculation that state-linked companies could gain an unfair advantage through access to commercially sensitive data...

OpenAI's agents get transaction-specific payment tokens instead of users' actual card details.

Amazon renamed its AI shopping assistant Rufus to Alexa for Shopping in May.

Mapping Korea’s cleantech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.

Anthropic is set to start trading on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT on Nov. 19.

Singapore said 22% of Nvidia's chip sales were booked to firms there, but only 1% arrived.

Founded by Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek already offered a public API and listed its available models.

Frammer was founded in 2023 by former New Delhi Television executives.

Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition was handed its third consecutive electoral defeat of the year on Saturday, as federal partner but state rival Umno retained control of Melaka in a lopsided contest driven by a Malay nationalist surge. An electoral alliance between the incumbent Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition and the Perikatan Nasional (PN) opposition bloc secured a commanding supermajority of 24 out of the 28 seats in Melaka’s state legislative assembly. The remaining...

LangChain's LangSmith product counts Nvidia, Toyota, and Salesforce among its 7,000 customers.

ByteDance plans to offer AI division employees 300 million tracking shares tied to that unit.

Aimed at robots and AI PCs, the DX-M2 is designed to run generative AI models on about 5 watts.

Newmo, Greenjoules, AutoSwift, and more raised funds this week.

Green SM says it has completed more than 1.5 million rides in India since launching in Delhi NCR.

Outside the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manila earlier this year, five people were arrested as hundreds of activists chanting “Junk Pax Silica!” clashed with anti-riot police. Inside, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr hobnobbed with some 600 investors, industry leaders and officials at a US-sponsored forum, urging them to sink their money into the US-led scheme. The Philippines is planning to build a sprawling 1,620-hectare (4,000-acre) “Pax Silica” technology hub near a former American...

These AI startups have a shot at becoming the next big thing.

The revelations surrounding Jensen Huang, who resigned from Nvidia over extramarital affairs, inspired social media posts using the very technology his company helped develop.

The narrative of easing trade tensions doesn’t tell us who reaps the benefits of these developments at the company level.

Nuclear stability requires mutual vulnerability. Artificial general intelligence could upset asymmetric deterrence equilibria, especially vis-à-vis Pyongyang.