Bloomberg A Hong Kong startup called Oriente raised $105 million as it expands online lending operations in Southeast Asia and develops new products and technologies for markets like Indonesia and the Philippines. Oriente was founded in 2017 by Skype Inc. co-founder Geoffrey Prentice, former Lu.com Chief Operating Officer Hubert Tai, and Lawrence Chu, founder of BlackPine Group. It provides loans, ...

Bloomberg A group of Google employees has signed a public letter calling on the company to abandon its plans for a Chinese search product that censors results. Project Dragonfly, as the initiative is known, would enable state surveillance at a time when the Chinese government is expanding controls over the population, according to the letter signed initially by at least ...

Bloomberg The European Union unveiled its long-term vision on combating climate change in a push for more ambitious action on the environment just days after US President Donald Trump rejected his government’s warning on the economic costs of global warming. The 28-nation bloc, responsible for 10 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions, set a 2050 perspective to help give direction to ...