One of Indonesia’s Unicorns GOJEK made a surprising move in the e-wallet industry by tying a partnership with its rival and newcomer LinkAja which is a digital payment platform supported by the government.
The global pioneer of co-working spaces company WeWork announced on Sunday that it is looking to raise up to US$4 billion in debt in the next few months before receiving funding from potential public investors.
Gojek is now extending its business to tourism and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) after success in turning a ride-hailing online app into many services such as food, shopping and even platform for mobile payments.
Three in four Japanese companies expect U.S.-China trade frictions to last until at least late this year, a sharp contrast to market hopes that presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping might soon strike a deal to end their damaging trade war, a Reuters poll found.
Japan's 24-hour convenience stores are struggling to stay open around the clock as an industry that has continually expanded now finds itself at the sharp end of a labour shortage.
Paris has climbed to the top of the world's priciest city for expatriates, tied first with Singapore and Hong Kong according to a survey Tuesday that named the capital of strife-torn Venezuela as the cheapest.
The newly appointed chief executive of Walmart Inc's Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu on Monday denied the business was up for sale, following reports last year that the U.S. retail giant was looking for a buyer.