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SoftBank fund leads $535mn investment in DoorDash delivery app

Bloomberg The latest winner of the SoftBank Group Corp. lottery is DoorDash Inc., a food-delivery app. SoftBank’s Vision Fund is leading a $535 million investment in the San Francisco-based company, almost triple the amount of capital the company had raised in the last five years. The deal, which includes funding from Sequoia Capital and Singapore’s GIC Pte sovereign-wealth fund, values ...

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Singapore’s gaming firm reports mounting losses

Bloomberg Sea Ltd., operator of Southeast Asia’s biggest gaming platform, reported mounting losses amid investments for growth and said Group President Nick Nash will leave his position at the end of the year. The Singapore-based company reported its net loss for the quarter ended in December more than tripled to $263.1 million, compared with analyst estimates that it would lose ...

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BAIC chief sees swing to profit in ‘19 on Senova cars

Bloomberg BAIC Motor Corp. will probably make a profit on sales of its own brands such as Senova cars next year after significantly reducing losses this year, Chairman Xu Heyi said in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. Such a reversal of fortunes for the Beijing-based automaker’s money-losing Senova marque would ...

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