Startup News Asia newsletters
Pick your platform for Asia’s weekly tech news from across the broad Asia-Pac and Indo Pacific regions, or take a look at Need To Know Now, our sister newsletter that looks at the bigger picture on a variety of subjects:
• Asia’s tech news – weekly newsletter on Substack
• Asia’s tech news headlines – LinkedIn e-newsletter
• Need To Know Now: Geopolitics, Asia, tech, supply chains…
Asia’s tech news via Substack
Tech news from across Asia: Weekly newsletter on Substack
We’ve expanded our news services in two ways using Substack:
- A weekly round-up of Asia’s technology news headlines; and
- An email newsletter service, sent direct to subscriber inboxes.
For a preview, hit the banner above or click the link below:
https://wadekwright.substack.com/
Here’s a preview of the newsletter’s content, taken from the February 21st 2023 edition:
• Australia: Comm’s & Media Authority mulls SMS sender ID register to block scammers sending fake-ID texts, system used in the UK, Spain, Ireland and Singapore
• India announces discovery of 5.9M ton reserve of Lithium, rare critical mineral used in electric vehicle and solar panel manufacture, in Jammu and Kashmir region
• South Korea: Busan sets sight on global digital asset hub status with creation of publicly-run crypto exchange, in part to draw blockchain firms and foreign investment
Is AI artwork stealing from artists?: “According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces ‘is an infringing, derivative work.'”
• China’s Alipay+ preps for activation in 8000 retailers using Australia’s epay, boosting cross-border mobile payments with global wallets
• Australia: Securities & Investments Commission supports regulation of ‘buy now, pay later’ financial products as a form of credit, seeing growing issues in consumer ability to repay, and provider fees
• China: E-commerce giant JD to launch ‘industrial version’ of ChatGPT-like product for retail and finance to leverage expertise in e-commerce, logistics and payments
Asia’s tech news headlines
weekly, via LinkedIn
Asia’s tech news weekly Linkedin newsletter
It might not seem that this would qualify as an email newsletter platform but, in fact, subscribers to Startup News Asia’s LinkedIn newsletter receive updates as a standalone email, as well as a link to the published LinkedIn post.
Click the banner above for SNA’s Asia tech news weekly on LinkedIn, or click the link below to take a look:
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/sna-asia-s-tech-news-6940166562133749760/
Need To Know Now
Geopolitics, Asia, tech, risks & more
The Need To Know Now newsletter is sent out via Substack and LinkedIn, and is available as interactive PDF downloads for those who’d rather print and read from hardcopy.
Details and downloads are on the Need To Know Now newsletter page, but here’s a snapshot of the items from a recent edition as a preview:
Need To Know Now: MARCH 5TH 2023
Aerostats in the South China Sea and Xinjiang, the aricultural impact of dams on the upper Mekong, ‘shadow shipping’ of oil in use by Russia and China, why fossil fuels aren’t going away any time soon (hint: it’s an energy source density issue), and Indonesian nickel’s environmental problems
1. Aerostats, China & surveillance in the South China Sea >
2. Upstream dams & downstream agriculture on the Mekong >
3. Shadow fleets, dark shipping, oil & sanctions >
