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
Malaysia: Digital stock media firm Inmagine Group buys two US companies
Inmagine has acquired filmmaker community platform Story & Heart and online graphics editor Vectr.
China Digest: Baidu said to lead $140m round in WM Motor; Xiaomi, Yunfeng back Jinying
Tencent Holdings, which recently led an over $1-billion round in Nio, could co-lead the round in WM Motor.
Philippines: Chelsea Logistics buys cargo firm WSI, completes Starlite acquisition
CLC bought WSI for an undisclosed sum, while it closed its 100 per cent acquisition of Starlite for up to $31.2 million (P1.6 billion).
Philippines: San Miguel buys Best Bottlers in Australia
The deal marks San Miguel's sixth acquisition in the packaging industry in the Australia and New Zealand region.
China: Sequoia backs $32m Series B round in EOC Pharma
H&Q Asia Pacific also participated in the round.
China Digest: SIG co-leads $41m round in Yixue Education; retailer Yan Ji You raises $18m
SIG China has led a $41 million seed round in Chinese online education platform Yixue Education, along with CASH Capital, New Oriental Education & Tec
Malaysia: Frontier Digital Ventures buys 3 online classified portals from Africa’s Jumia
Jumia's portals are existing competitors to Frontier’s current investments in Ghana (meQasa), Nigeria (ToLet) and Angola (AngoCasa).
Philippines: MPTC acquires stake in Indonesia infra firm Nusantara for $132m
PT MPTI will now hold a total of about 47.08 per cent of the total issued capital stock of PT Nusantara on a fully-diluted basis.
