This month we take a deep dive into this year’s Tech Round-Up for 2024, identifying the stories that mattered most to you, ranking them by reader engagement.

During the year we also worked with our global partner GP Bullhound on a milestone report on Southeast Asian Tech: "Confronting Realities & Lifting Ambitions”. Download your holiday reading!

Enjoy, from all of us at North Ridge Partners.

Original Thinking From North Ridge Partners

Live commerce, Wealth Tech, and Cybersecurity drew the strongest Tech Round Up subscriber interest in 2024. But it was coverage of a surging defence tech sector, amid geopolitical tensions, that delivered this year’s standout story. Click here to read our recap on the stories you liked most during 2024.

While we were writing original content for Tech Round-Up during the year, we were also supporting our partner GP Bullhound in producing a new report on the Southeast Asian Tech scene. Download your copy here.

Big Tech

• Breaking up is hard to do. DOJ proposes a breakup of Google, with divestment of Chrome and Android to follow.

• Look out Nvidia…here comes Trainium 2.

• Beyond the wild blue yonder: Jeff Bezos says his space business will be bigger than Amazon.

• He can almost taste it… Musk still has work to do to collect on that $US56bn payday.

• Intel outside. Former CEO of the Year Pat Gelsinger is out the door at Intel.

Asia Pacific Tech News

• Rocky road: Pony AI completes $413mn IPO. But it might have been so much more.

• Shopping lah! Single’s Day delivers ‘robust growth’ for Alibaba and JD.com, while TikTok Shop’s US Black Friday sales triple (despite looming ban).

• Tech giants Meta, TikTok, Google slam Australia’s under-16 social media ban.

• World Economic Forum reports on the future of AI in Southeast Asia.

• Here comes Robinhood! US online brokerage Robinhood sets up Singapore HQ.

Stuff We Found Interesting

• McKinsey on the future of technology (readers need to subscribe for free).

• The tit-for-tat trade wars are only going to get worse… now it’s precious metals.

• Peer-to-peer robot learning? Go figure.

• 2024’s biggest tech fails. Led by the Humane pin.

• Best tech parody of the year: IKEA’s Bookbook - it’s a classic!

Tech Investment Banking Across Asia Pacific

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