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Facebook faces fresh scrutiny in Southeast Asia, after data from over 15 million users in the region was exposed in a recent leak that could put individuals at risk of identity theft and impersonation attempts, according to local privacy watchdogs.

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San Francisco and Mumbai-headquartered Gupshup, which enables companies to build messaging services and bots to interact with customers, has raised USD 100 million from Tiger Global at a valuation of USD 1.4 billion. With this, the New York-based hedge fund has catapulted four companies this week to the unicorn club, companies with a valuation of at least USD 1 billion.

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Chinese online education unicorn VIPKid has halted financial and human resources support for its Dami Wangxiao (Dami Online School) platform, Chinese media outlet Yicai reported on Wednesday.

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Malaysian-headquartered, budget airline AirAsia is going the extra mile. In October, its "ASEAN super app for everyone" went live, and the company has been adding new features to it ever since. Users in Malaysia can use the app to hail rides and access digital health services to book doctor appointments, while people in Singapore can order meals that are brought to their doorstep.

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Garena's mobile shooting game Free Fire has overtaken Tencent's PUBG Mobile as the top battle royale game by player spending in the first quarter in the US, generating about USD 100 million in revenue against USD 68 million for PUBG, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower.

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The stock of Chinese logistics giant SF Holding (SHZ: 002352) fell 10% to RMB 72.72 (USD 11.10) in the A-share market on Friday. Its trading was halted following a profit warning for the first quarter on Thursday night. The company now expects a net loss of RMB 900 million to 1.1 billion (USD 137–168 million), after generating RMB 907.3 million in net profits in the first quarter of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

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Bike-sharing startup Hello Chuxing has started selling "intelligent" electric bikes in China, it said on Wednesday during a product launch ceremony held in Beijing, diversifying from its original bike-sharing business, ahead of a reportedly USD 2 billion initial public offering in the US this quarter.

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Indian social media startup ShareChat, which also runs short video app Moj, has landed a half-a-billion dollar check from New York-headquartered hedge fund Tiger Global, American social media giant Snap, and Twitter, among others.The USD 502 million funding round has pushed ShareChat’s valuation to USD 2.1 billion from reportedly USD 650 million last September when it raised USD 40 million in a pre-Series E round. With this, ShareChat becomes the tenth startup to become a unicorn, a startup with USD 1 billion valuation.

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