When Uber sold its Southeast Asia business to Grab in March, UberEats was part of the deal. Now, the Southeast Asian ride-hailing king has built on the service to launch its own food delivery platform. Called GrabFood, the service is available in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, and will be rolled out to Singapore then …
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China’s WeChat axes top
Dating site SeekingArrangement.com is getting a lot of attention from the Chinese, but WeChat isn’t feeling the love. China’s WhatsApp-equivalent has axed the dating site from its platform, state media China Daily reported Friday. The move comes after Global Times — also state-run — said authorities in Shanghai launched a probe into SeekingArrangement’s operations in the country. Global Times criticised the …
Read More »Malaysians to bring #chocs4cops to snub the country’s ousted PM
Malaysians are coming together to try to satisfy the police’s alleged sweet tooth. A campaign called #chocs4cops was launched Sunday calling for Malaysians to give chocolates to their local police officers, Reuters reported Wednesday. The campaign came about after the country’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, alleged that police “helped themselves to food and chocolates in the refrigerator” when they …
Read More »Moto Z3 Play kicks the home button to the curb
The Moto Z3 Play is now an actual real thing we’ve had our hands on! It arrives this summer for $499 with an extra battery pack. Moto’s premium line of phones is due for an update, and new leaked renders of the Z3 Play give those who like their phones reasonably affordable something to be excited about. The phone will …
Read More »Facebook, Google under EFF scrutiny to explain removed posts
Ever noticed one of your Facebook posts disappear without explanation? You’re not the only one. Not-for-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of digital rights groups have called on big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, to explain decisions behind removed content as well as improve appeals policies. They published a document on Monday titled “The Santa Clara …
Read More »Apple hires the former vice president of Samsung to tackle Korea
Apple has appointed a new leader for its business in South Korea, the home of its biggest rival, Samsung. And it’s none other than a top executive from that very company. Former Samsung Corporate Vice President Brandon Yoon has left his post to join the iPhone maker at its South Korea office this month, his LinkedIn profile reveals. He was …
Read More »China’s internet is reaching new levels of crackdown
China’s internet has always been censored by its government, but there now looks to be a new digital era in the country: One where internet giants simply censor themselves. Last Friday, China’s Weibo began a three-month purge on anime, games and short videos depicting “pornography, gore, violence and homosexuality” from its Twitter-like platform. It was that last category, homosexuality, that …
Read More »Moto G6 Play and G6 Plus listed prematurely online
We’re just hours before an expected launch of the Moto G6 series in Brazil, but folks at Carphone Warehouse can’t contain their excitement any longer. Photos and details of the Moto G6 Play and G6 Plus have appeared on the UK-based phone retailer’s website, Android Police first spotted reported Wednesday. The pages had already been removed when CNET visited the …
Read More »Viral jumping game on China’s WeChat draws big money from Nike, McDonald’s
Foreign countries may be growing wary of products developed in China, but that hasn’t stopped international brands from leveraging WeChat’s popularity and reportedly spending millions to engage with potential customers. Nike and McDonald’s have become the first companies to advertise on the Chinese social-messaging platform’s wildly popular mini game called Tiao Yi Tiao, loosely translated as Jump, WeChat announced on …
Read More »Honour of Kings playtime could become kids’ reward for chores, Tencent says
Tencent is still working out how to respond to concerns about addiction to Honour of Kings, China’s most popular mobile game Last year, it began limiting children under 12 to one hour a day of play. The Chinese tech giant is now exploring a feature that would allow parents and children to negotiate a digital contract regarding playtime, local media reported over …
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