Ohmyhome Limited, a data-driven property technology company based in Singapore, has started trading on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Ohmyhome has become the first Singaporean firm to list on the NASDAQ this year.
An initiative to put innovation into the mainstream of the digital economy among the people will be launched soon, said Malaysia’s Economy Minister Mohd Rafizi Ramli. Without disclosing details, he said the initiative had been carried out with the cooperation between his ministry and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation since two months ago.
BuenTrip Ventures, a Quito based firm, which started in 2016 as a community for entrepreneurs and since 2021 is a VC, announced the opening of a new fund, which expects to raise US$15 million and invest in more than 30 software startups in LatAm, to enable rapid digital transformation in the region. BuenTrip will invest in non-traditional markets such as Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Paraguay.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.