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🪓☠️ Covid-19: Southeast Asia tech layoffs and shutdowns
We're keeping this list regularly updated.
January 5, 2021
Indonesia’s Asos-style fashion app Sorabel to shut down
End of the road for shopping startup launched in 2014.
July 24, 2020
No more at-home massages for you as Gojek adapts to new normal
Job losses hit 430 people (about 9% of workforce) at Gojek.
June 24, 2020
Oyo, RedDoorz put staff on unpaid leave as tourism grinds to a halt
Hotel bookings are way down as the virus hits the travel industry especially hard.
April 9, 2020
Despite streaming boom, iFlix cuts jobs
All media outlets are struggling as advertisers slash budgets.
April 7, 2020
IBM and NASA release open-source AI model for lunar mapping
September 12, 2026
India plans AI-agent registry for UPI payments
September 12, 2026
Wipro says AI has freed capacity equivalent to 20,000 workers
September 12, 2026
Cloudera and Mistral partner on sovereign enterprise AI
September 12, 2026
IBM and NASA release open-source AI model for lunar mapping
September 12, 2026
India plans AI-agent registry for UPI payments
September 12, 2026
Wipro says AI has freed capacity equivalent to 20,000 workers
September 12, 2026
Cloudera and Mistral partner on sovereign enterprise AI
September 12, 2026








