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NEWS & TRENDS
VR nuts
VR investments keep climbing in Q3 2016 to amount to $23 billion in last 12 months. As sector goes mainstream, VC investment has shifted to Sand Hill Road firms from specialist investors. Read Forbes.

Hillhouse joins $100 million Series C round in Mobike as bike sharing battle heats up. Sequoia Capital and Qiming Venture Partners participated in the financing.

New NVCA survey showed 52% of VCs had degrees from a small cluster of 10 schools and 87% were Caucasian.

Blue SKy VC's Elaine Stead on why private equity doesn't have a problem with women - it's just fat and lazy. 

The Uber-Didi merger is giving the companies headaches, most recently the "ghost driver" scam.

At Davos in 2015, China promised to treat Chinese and foreign firms like equals. Investors are still waiting.  

London's rivals - after Brexit, will Barcelona become the EU's next fintech hub?

How an ancient Amazonian hallucinogenic brew became choice stimulant in Brooklyn & Silicon Valley.

Apple sets up first R&D center in Beijing.

Is it easy to be an entrepreneur in Asia? Depends on where you ask. 

Didi Chuxing makes information security push with new U.S. research lab.

INDIA
Druva scores $51 million for India's Data Security Space, led by Sequoia Capital India and Economic Development Board Investments.

Payments are the next big opportunity in India, says Sequoia Capital partner Mohit Bhatnagar.

NIIT Ltd. acquires Bangalore edtech company Perceptron.

KOREA
This ride-sharing startup Quartz is succeeding in South Korea where Uber failed, by making the taxi union happy.

JAPAN
Spotify says Hello to Japan.