WeWork

SINGAPORE (Oct 4): Things have not been working out these past couple of weeks for co-working space operator WeWork.

Singapore (Oct 7): WeWork’s aborted IPO, announced amid questions over corporate governance, mounting losses and unrealistic valuations, has raised questions over whether the office space leasing company can meet its commitments for properties it plans

SINGAPORE (Oct 7): Corporate sagas often unfold excruciatingly slowly. Over the past two years, several high-profile, fast-growing, overhyped venture capital (VC)-funded companies have imploded. There was Theranos, a blood-testing start-up founded by char

SINGAPORE (Oct 2): Concerns about WeWork Cos. may amplify the negative impact of a weakening economy on Singapore’s commercial real estate investment trusts, according to Credit Suisse Group AG.

(Oct 1): WeWork formally withdrew the prospectus for its initial public offering, capping a botched fundraising effort that cost the top executive his job. The defeat places urgency on WeWork to find new sources of capital to keep the lights on.

SINGAPORE (Sept 30): When a controversial CEO steps down from his post, it is usually just the beginning of an ugly clean-up. Never has that been more true than for WeWork.

SINGAPORE (Sept 30): This year was supposed to be the year for tech unicorns. Instead, many are getting unexpectedly strong pushback in the public market — best epitomised by the rapid unravelling of the hype and euphoria surrounding WeWork in the run-u

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): The overriding concern in Silicon Valley in recent months has been the overvaluation of start-ups funded by venture capital. In every tech cycle, there have been periods in which investors in both private and public markets have chase

SINGAPORE (Sept 20): It wasn’t long after The Edge Singapore was launched that I began measuring time not in days or months but in terms of the publication’s issue numbers, a consequence of constantly thinking about stories and commentaries that were

SINGAPORE (Sept 16): “Let the data speak for itself. Minister Siti Nurbaya should not be in denial.” — Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysian Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, refuting her Indonesian counterpart’s claims tha