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Headquartered in Singapore, Agoda is part of NASDAQ-listed Booking Holdings and employs more than 7,000 staff globally.

All five digital banks have collectively served 2.4 million customers, with total deposits of MYR 4.2 billion ($1.04 billion) in Malaysia by end of 2025, its central bank's annual report showed Tuesday.

Vietnam's semiconductor sector has so far recorded foreign direct investment (FDI) of $14.2 billion in 241 projects and will strive to further attract global big tech to invest in the country.

Microsoft announced a plan to invest more than $1 billion in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Thailand between 2026 and 2028, following a meeting in Bangkok between Vice Chair and President Brad Smith and Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

Groundup.ai, Singapore-based agentic AI for cognitive maintenance, announced Monday it has officially closed a contract exceeding $10 million — the largest in the company’s history.

Nightify, a Thailand-based platform focused on discovering, booking, and managing nightlife experiences, has raised a total of US$500,000 in seed funding, in a round led by A2D Ventures and other angel investors across the hospitality, retail, and consumer sectors.

Indonesia-headquartered J&T Global Express, a global logistics service provider affiliated with China's smartphone brand Oppo, reported a revenue of $12.2 billion in 2025, up 18.5% year-on-year, the firm said in a release on Monday.

Bitdeer Technologies Group, a Singapore-headquartered technology firm focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, will jointly develop an AI data center in Norway, with a capacity of 180 MW.

Furukawa Electric is set to invest at least JPY55 billion ($345 million) in expanding data center cooling production in the Philippines, Thailand, and China, the Japanese firm said in a release on Monday.

Malaysia's largest lender Maybank has successfully completed the first transaction under its inaugural pilot project for tokenized deposits and cross-border payments with Yinson Holdings Berhad, a Malaysia-based energy infrastructure company.