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Singapore’s AI company Acrab raises further $130M Series B to scale edge AI platform, after $350M funding
Acrab, a Singapore-headquartered technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure, has raised $130 million in a Series B round led by existing investors Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth.
Indonesia’s transportation platform McEasy raises $9M Series B to expand across Southeast Asia
Indonesia's McEasy, a fleet and transportation management platform, has raised $9 million in a Series B round combining equity and debt.
Delivery Hero invests $5M in Malaysia to strengthen regional operations, customer experience
Germany-based online food ordering and delivery company Delivery Hero has invested more than MYR 20 million ($4.89 million) in Malaysia to strengthen regional operations and customer experience.
AI can help portfolio managers work at “superhuman” level, says LinqAlpha founder [Q&A]
TNGlobal spoke with Jin Kim, Co-founder and Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at LinqAlpha, about how AI is reshaping institutional investing, the company's regional strategy, and what an "army of AI agents" means for the analysts who use them.
Inchcape Plus launches China’s BYD T35 electric light truck in Singapore, first in Southeast Asia
Inchcape Plus, Singapore's BYD commercial truck dealer, has launched the BYD T35 electric light truck in Singapore, making it the first market in Southeast Asia to introduce the vehicle following its global debut at the Japan Mobility Show 2025.
TikTok Shop targets 1,000 Singapore sellers, 3,000 creators for training as GMV grows 1.7x
TikTok Shop plans to train at least 1,000 local sellers by the end of 2027 and more than 3,000 creators by the end of 2026 for the e-commerce ecosystem in Singapore, according to a statement of TikTok on Tuesday.
Malaysia’s Qmed Asia, Intel to jointly build unified hospital patient monitoring platform
Malaysia's Qmed Asia and United States chipmaker Intel will cooperate to develop a unified patient monitoring platform for hospitals, combining Intel's Patient Monitoring Hub Reference Implementation with Qmed Asia's healthcare software to consolidate fragmented bedside data into a centralized Smart Ward dashboard.
Vietnam’s FPT becomes OpenAI partner to deploy GPT-5.6 in cybersecurity, enterprise workflows
Vietnam's technology giant FPT has become an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, with a focus on integrating OpenAI's frontier AI capabilities into FPT's cybersecurity platforms and enterprise workflows.
Honda’s EV losses to approach $12.5B across fiscal years 2026-2027
Japan's Honda Motor is set to book ¥1.97 trillion ($12.5 billion) in EV-strategy losses across fiscal years 2026 and 2027, equal to roughly three years of operating profit and more than a full year of total R&D spending.
Funding Societies secures new financing facility from Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad
Funding Societies announced Monday that it has secured a new working capital financing facility from Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV), a subsidiary of the Minister of Finance of Malaysia, to support technology-driven and underserved Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through its platform.
