Tencent Holdings

SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI (June 30): Over the past two months, some 1,000 part-time workers for DBS Group Holdings Ltd. have fanned out across Singapore’s famed food courts, trying to entice mom-and-pop hawkers to use the bank’s digital payments service, ca

SINGAPORE (June 15): Element AI, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) company, has raised US$102 million ($140.6 million) and says it will open a Singapore office during 2H17 to serve as a Southeast Asia hub, as part of its resultant expansion in

LONDON (June 1): Revenue from computer games exceeded US$100 billion ($138 billion) globally in a single year for the first time, while China has overtaken the US as the "gamer capital of the world" in terms of market size, according to a report p

(June 1): Isaac Ho and several investors were watching a pitch from a cancer-detection startup in Singapore when one of the Chinese billionaires present got up and  – without a word – scrawled “Speed x Market Share” in Chinese characters on a wh

(May 8): Garena has rebranded as Sea after Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup secured US$550 million ($772 million) in funds to step up a battle with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and other players in Indonesia.

HONG KONG (March 31): Calvin Zhang was getting tired of his Maserati. The Italian sports car spent too much time with the mechanic and guzzled too much gasoline.

BEIJING (Feb 21): With a fur-lined jacket and a Miu Miu shoulder bag, Zhang Chen isn’t your traditional Chinese migrant worker. She huddles with about 40 others in the frosty, polluted air of North Beijing, waiting to apply for a two-day job guiding v

SINGAPORE (Jan 10): HSBC Global Research is maintaining its “buy” on Tencent Holdings (700 HK) with a target price of HK$245 ($45.30) after its cross-platform instant messaging service Wechat launched its "mini programs" on Monday.

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Once a manufacturing powerhouse for low-quality goods, Shanghai is fast embracing a new norm in which fast-food bills and taxi fares are settled with a mere tap of the mobile phone, and everything from the week’s groceries to the la