Homegrown social commerce start-up Orderfaz says it has completed a pre-seed funding round led by Singapore’s 1982 Ventures.

Indonesia’s aquaculture startup eFishery has recently raised $200 million in its Series D funding round, cementing its place as a unicorn in the aquatech industry.

Changing social media engagement and rising marketplace fees are fueling a new concept of online shopping: social commerce.

China's President Xi Jinping, on an inspection tour of a major industrial province, renewed his call for greater innovation and technological self-reliance, as the United States intensifies curbs on Chinese access to advanced technologies.

Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of social media's most iconic companies, despite its epic struggles.

P2P lending platforms want the OJK to massively increase the maximum ticket size for productive loans, which they hope will rekindle growth in the industry.

Akseleran plans to use some of its IPO proceeds to acquire local multifinance firm PT Pratama Interdana Finance.

Sydney-based private company Facilitate Corp on June 29 filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California claiming breach of contract over Twitter's failure to pay its invoices. 

The EU will take the next crucial step on Wednesday towards launching a digital version of the euro, a controversial project that has come under attack from the public, politicians and banks before it even exists.

Low-value plastic waste is more expensive to recycle than to produce, but one recycling start-up has found a way to process them and turn a profit.

Indonesian livestreamer Christine Febriyanti stood in a room crammed with clothes in Jakarta, hawking colorful garments to hundreds of viewers on a TikTok livestream for a local fashion brand.

Founded in 1804 in Japan, Shimizu Corporation has been striving to create values for its clients in the field of design and build engineering with the spirit of master builder for over 200 years.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expects his brain-chip startup Neuralink to start its first human trial this year, he said on Friday in France.

Southeast Asia, a region with a collective population of 630 million - half of them under 30 - is one of TikTok's biggest markets in terms of user numbers, generating more than 325 million visitors to the app every month.

Researchers and campaigners mull over the future of their industry as the virtual confronts the real.

Founders of homegrown start-ups are increasingly taking on investor roles in early-stage ventures in a sign that Indonesia's startup ecosystem is maturing.

What we need is a space for conversation, to engage and uncover all the quests that businesses like fintech companies struggle with in adapting to digital challenges. This issue was addressed in the Huawei Cloud Indonesia FinTech Summit, themed Unlocking New Growth in FinTech with Huawei Cloud.

The bill is designed to support local news organizations, which have been decimated in recent years as ad revenue bled away to Google and Facebook, both advertising behemoths.

Indonesian mortgage tech start-up Ringkas gets early-stage investment from domestic and foreign venture capital firms.

Most artificial intelligence (AI) development is happening elsewhere for now, but investors in Indonesia and abroad are ready to pounce on the use cases the cutting-edge technology promises to unlock in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Nusantara Capital City (IKN) is a megaproject of unrestrained ambition, as the planners of Indonesia’s future capital envision facilities straight out of science fiction.

Southeast Asia's coffee tech start-ups are securing funding and branching out to maximize profitability, pushing café culture against the tide of the "tech winter" in other sectors.

Montana on Wednesday became the first US state to ban TikTok, with the law set to take effect next year as debate escalates over the impact and security of the popular video app.

Indonesians can now use the popular Quick Response Indonesia Standard (QRIS) to make payments in Malaysia as the two countries take a major step forward in integrating digital transaction systems.

The Indonesian start-up, which offers supply chain solutions to direct-to-consumer (D2C) Praktis businesses, has secured US$20 million in first-round funding after posting quadruple sales growth in 2022.

The announcement came as Musk has been struggling, amid frequent controversy, to make Twitter profitable.

Low insurance penetration in the country indicates that the market is still very wide and open for further expansion.

Industry insiders say the increasing role of institutions marks a natural progression for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, but analysts point to possible liquidity risks.

One of the driving forces behind the cashless payments trend is the central bank's effort to provide the infrastructure, such as through QRIS and BI-FAST.

Asking ChatGPT for investment advice has become a trend lately, with many users assuming perhaps that the bot’s ability to sift through lots of information almost instantaneously makes it perfect for finding the best path through the complex financial jungle.