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SoftBank Vision Fund, Alibaba lead $1.1bn Tokopedia round

Bloomberg SoftBank Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. led a $1.1 billion investment in PT Tokopedia, a financing round that will help Indonesia’s biggest online marketplace venture beyond e-commerce into new areas such as air tickets and insurance. The company was valued at more than $7 billion after the funding, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked ...

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Trouble for Huawei spells opportunity for Samsung over 5G

Bloomberg Growing security concerns surrounding Huawei Technologies Co. may help Samsung Electronics Co. challenge the Chinese behemoth in the market for fifth-generation wireless communications, an executive at the South Korean giant said. While Samsung remains the world’s biggest smartphone and semiconductor maker, Huawei dominates networking by a large margin. But its market position is under threat as one country after ...

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China default-risk jumps to 2005 high

Bloomberg Default risk for Chinese companies has climbed to the highest in 13 years as Beijing seeks to rein in its post-crisis construction boom, according to Moody’s Analytics. The research group’s measure of expected default frequency has risen above early-warning levels for about 25 percent of corporate borrowers. Moody’s Analytics, a separate entity from the ratings agency, uses the gauge ...

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