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Maria Ressa founder of Filipino independent media site Rappler found guilty in cyber libel trial

Apps to reach record highs in Q3 of 36B downloads and 34B in consumer spending

Igloo raises 82M to bring insurance to more people in Southeast Asia

Indonesian fintech Xendit is now a unicorn with 150M in fresh funding led by Tiger Global

Ecommerce logistics startup Locad gets 45M seed round led by Sequoia Capital India

Facebook is launching political ad checks in Nigeria Ukraine EU and India in coming months

Philippines: Department of Science and Technology Opens Additive Manufacturing Facility

GoJek buys fintech startup Coinsph for 72M ahead of Philippines expansion

Tala grabs 145M to offer more financial services in emerging markets

Oriente raises 50 million to continue building its infrastructure for digital financial services

Philippines buy now pay later startup Plentina raises 22M seed round

Topica raises 50M for its online learning services in Southeast Asia

Resurgent HappyFresh raises 20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia

Indias OYO enters Japan in partnership with SoftBank

Egypts Pylon gets 19M to scale software for water and electricity distribution companies

Led by exAmazonians Acquco raises 160M to buy and scale ecommerce businesses

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

PayMaya owner Voyager Innovations raises 210M at a valuation of 14B

Airbnb confirms 150M200M investment in Indias OYO

Resellee wants to become the Pinduoduo of Southeast Asia

How US national security agencies hold the internet hostage

Grab raises more money again

Maritime recruitment platform Seafair gets 57M led by General Catalyst

Filipino live streaming app Kumu raises 5 million Series A led by Openspace Ventures

Philippinesbased MSME platform GrowSari adds 775 million to its Series C

Philippines SME lending startup First Circle raises 26M ahead of regional expansion

Send now pay later startup Pomelo lands 35M Series A from secretive Vy Capital Founders Fund

Philippines startup Shoppable Business smooths bumps in the business procurement process

Philippines startup Parallax removes the friction from crossborder payments

Twitter names first international markets to get checks on political advertisers

TNB Aura closes 227M fund to bring PEstyle investing to Southeast Asias startups

Komunidad a Philippinesbased environmental intelligence platform lands seed round

In Southeast Asia a booming crypto scene

Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise 99M in VC

PayMaya owner Voyager Innovation raises 167M from KKR Tencent and IFC to launch digital bank in the Philippines

Facebook revamps its business tool lineup following threats to its ad targeting business

Grocery startup Honestbee makes layoffs and cuts costs as it prepares to raise more money

Philippines buy now pay later startup BillEase scores 11M Series B

ShopBack a cashback startup in Asia Pacific raises 45M from Rakuten and others

Deliveree is smoothing Southeast Asias bumpy logistics landscape

Twitter expands misinformation reporting feature to more international markets

Brick closes 85M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia

Manilabased payments processing startup PayMongo raises 27 million in seed funding

Ondemand logistics startup Lalamove raises 300M for Asia growth and becomes a unicorn

Tonik raises 21 million to launch digital bank in the Philippines

Ant Group buys Singapores 2C2P to further global payments ambitions

Upmesh wants to build a communitydriven discovery app for Southeast Asian live commerce

Rakutens Viber chat app plans to charge to operate chatbots in controversial move

Locad lands Series A to expand its logistics engine across Southeast Asia and Australia

Masa Finance gets 35M preseed to build its decentralized credit protocol