Consumer Technology

A consortium that includes co-founder Tan Min-Liang made an offer to take the Hong Kong-listed gaming hardware company private.

A parliamentary bulletin dated Nov. 23 showed that the Indian government plans to introduce a new bill that seeks to ban most private cryptocurrencies.

An ongoing supply crunch for chips has hurt production across sectors ranging from cars to consumer appliances, and personal computers to smartphones.

Indonesia’s GoTo Group has secured $1.3 billion from investors in the first close of an ongoing funding round ahead of a planned initial public offering.

Around 40 million people across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand came online for the first time this year, the report said.

In papers submitted to India’s market regulator on Thursday, Paytm raised its IPO size from $2.2 billion to $2.44 billion.

Australia has been “at the forefront” of establishing regulatory framework for social media companies to operate, Minister Paul Fletcher said.

Samsung said its operating profit for the quarter that ended in September was up 28% from a year ago to 15.8 trillion Korean won ($13.26 billion).

Facebook has apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users unable to access Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger for several hours.

Carousell said last week it raised $100 million in fresh funds that valued the company at more than a billion dollars.

As many as 828 venture capital funded deals were announced between January and July, with a total disclosed value of $16.9 billion, according to GlobalData.

Recent rules from the FCC will slow robocall scammers down, but experts say they won’t disappear.

Singapore-based Carousell said it is now valued at $1.1 billion — which makes it Southeast Asia’s latest unicorn.

Google allegedly used its market position to block smartphone makers from using operating systems developed by rivals, according to the regulator.

Google and Apple’s policies usually require developers to pay them a commission as high as 30% in every transaction.

Indian ride-sharing firm Ola is planning to raise up to $1 billion through an initial public offering, a source familiar with the situation told CNBC.

Several central banks are exploring digital currencies that would be issued by them, either to commercial lenders or to the public directly.

Ola is part of a growing list of Indian tech start-ups that are planning to go public.

Travel app Elude is built around a “budget-first” search engine that offers users instant options for flights and accommodations within their price range.

In its calculations, Jungle Ventures looked at publicly available information on 31 start-ups valued from $250 million to over $1 billion.