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ByteDance’s TikTok lays off hundreds of employees in Malaysia – report

A source close to the Malaysian branch of the company told The Malaysian Reserve (TMR) that more than 500 employees were terminated.

YouTube & Shopee partner in Southeast Asia e-commerce tie-up – report

With YouTube Shopping, Alphabet Inc and Shopee will be competing against TikTok, the Bytedance-owned video app, which has increased its ambitions for the region after taking control of Indonesia's biggest e-commerce platform Tokopedia.

TikTok’s parent ByteDance eyes $9.5B in record Asia dollar corporate loan – report

According to Bloomberg, proceeds of the deal will be partly used to refinance an existing $5 billion dual-tranche facility the group had raised in 2021.

TikTok launches TikTok Shop Mall in Singapore

Global e-commerce platform TikTok Shop has launched TikTok Shop Mall in Singapore, a by-invite only channel exclusively for brands' flagship stores and authorized online retail outlets.

GoTo, TikTok compliance with Indonesia’s trade regulation nears 100%, says GoTo CEO – report

Indonesian minister for small and medium enterprises Teten Masduki said last week TikTok had yet to comply with the regulation.

TikTok still violates Indonesian in-app transactions ban, says minister – report

Teten Masduki, the Indonesian minister for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), told reporters that TikTok still had not complied with the regulation.

TikTok partners HubSpot to make community-based customer acquisition easier for B2B brands in Singapore

HubSpot and TikTok have on Thursday announced a partnership to make community-based customer acquisition easier than ever for business to business (B2B) brands, with a new integration designed to easily capture leads from TikTok directly in HubSpot’s customer relationship management (CRM).

[Year in review] Southeast Asia’s Top 10 tech news in 2023

As we usher into 2024, with the hope for a better year, here are some of the top tech news in 2023.

GoTo struck TikTok deal to stop market share slide, CEO says – report

TikTok Shop more than doubled its market share to 11 percent this year, Walujo said on a conference call with investors on Thursday. GoTo’s share of the pie shrank to 23 percent from 28 percent over that span, he was quote as saying.