tomnoda
Tom Noda, Philippines Correspondent for DEALSTREETASIA, has been a journalist for the past 12 years. He has worked with popular print and online media organizations such as Philstar.com (online version of The Philippine STAR), Computerworld Philippines magazine, The Manila Times national broadsheet, and Sun Star Pampanga daily community newspaper.
Stories by tomnoda
Philippines: San Miguel buys power firm Masin-AES for nearly $2b
Masin-AES owns/runs a 630MW coal-fired power plant in Zambales province, Philippines.
Chinese ride hailing firm Didi Chuxing to buy payments firm 19Pay for $45m
The buyout deal will enable Didi Chuxing to develop its own payment services, pitting it against local tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.
BPE Asia raises $488m for second real estate vehicle
With its latest fundraising, BPE Asia has made it to the top 10 Asia-focused opportunistic private real estate investment management firms in terms of
FountainVest, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan back HK gym chain Pure Group
FountainVest had earlier been reported to be in talks to acquire control of Pure Group at a valuation of more than $400 million.
Asia Digest: SoftBank backs AI startup Mirror, Horizons Ventures invests in Fano Labs
San Francisco-based Mirror is a custom emoji keyboard maker.
China: Wecash to invest $1.5b in digital apartment rentals platform
Wecash made the announcement following the completion of its $80-million Series C round led by China Merchants Venture Capital Management, Forebright
Philippines: Credit management firm Collectius acquires bank’s $350m NPL portfolio
The deal consists of 340,000 credit cards and personal loans.
China: Tianhe Life Sciences leads $9.5m Series A in Clover Biopharma
Combined with other nondilutive sources of funding, the financing brings Clover’s total cash proceeds received in 2017 to $12.7 million.
Philippines: Qwikwire launching $9m ICO to aid property players to tap global market
Qwikwire founder and CEO Ray Refundo said the AQwire platform will empower property developers to be able to sell their units to any customer in the w
Marathon Venture leads $6.4m round in HK fintech firm Lion Rock
The latest investment in Lion Rock is touted as a benchmark VC financing in the Hong Kong fintech industry. 9F Inc, the strategic investor who backed
