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Neysa, Wuhan Weineng Battery Asset, Not a Hotel, and more raised funds this week. Read from your browser FOMO Saturday Welcome to Tech in Asia's free Saturday VC newsletter! Register to get full access to our subscribers-only premium content and other insightful analysis on the big and messy topics of Asia's tech and startup community. Ensure our articles appear in your Google searches: Hello Betamax, Just a few weeks ago, Apple acquired an Israeli startup called Q.ai for reportedly US$1.6 billion , a considerably huge move. This week, Palo Alto Networks purchased CyberArk, another Israeli company. The deal was priced at US$250 billion, one of the largest in the West Asian country's history. This humongous deal is intended to fill a major gap in Palo Alto Networks' portfolio by adding a leading identity security platform to its already broad cybersecurity stack. But more than that, it also makes the acquirer the largest company by market cap on the Tel Aviv...

We look at the payments firm's US ambitions after posting revenue growth and narrowing losses, and AI's potential to thaw India's funding winter. Read from your browser Daily Newsletter Welcome to Tech in Asia's daily newsletter, your essential dose of Asia's tech and startup buzz. Subscribe to this newsletter or send story tips to editors@techinasia.com . Ensure our articles appear in your Google searches: IN FOCUS Thunes tunes into revenue growth Can AI warm up India's funding winter? OpenAI rides on India's AI high Hello Betamax, Building a global payments superhighway is one thing, but as any logistics expert will tell you, the road is only as useful as the cargo it can carry. In payments, that cargo is increasingly digital. I've covered several payment players in the past year, and stablecoins have popped up in conversations almost every time. They do so again in this edition's featured story on Thunes, a payments firm based in S...