Shanghai-based eRoad, which offers a cloud-based HR management service with a focus on payroll, raised a ~$140M Series D, after raising an ~$84M Series C (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

Vibhuti Sharma / DealStreetAsia:
Bengaluru-based BetterPlace, which offers a SaaS for blue-collar workforce management, raised a $40M Series C extension, bringing its total funding to ~$80M  —  BetterPlace, a SaaS platform for workforce management, said on Tuesday that it has raised $40 million as part of an extended Series C round …

Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia:
Jakarta-based Privy, which offers digital signature and identity verification services, raised a $48M Series C led by KKR, bringing its total funding to $71.6M  —  Privy, a Jakarta-based startup that provides universal identity and digital signature services, has raised $48 million …

Richard Chirgwin / iTnews:
Sydney-based Morse Micro, a fabless developer of Wi-Fi chips, raised a $140M Series B led by Japanese SoC developer MegaChips  —  Wi-fi HaLow designer getting traction.  —  Sydney-based fabless wi-fi HaLow chip developer Morse Micro has secured $140 million in Series B funding in a round led …

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company’s decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others  —  It’s nice to be synonymous with a product category.  But Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that expanding on its video-calling ubiquity is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Jennifer Conrad / Wired:
As China encourages digital yuan adoption among its citizens, experts say the digital currency opens up new forms of government surveillance and social control  —  Government officials are urging citizens to adopt the official digital currency in a bid to gain more control over the economy.

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
China’s central bank: e-CNY transactions totaled ~$14B from December 2019 to August 2022, up 14% from ~$12.2B in December 2021, signaling slowing growth  —  China’s central bank digital currency transactions totalled 100 billion yuan (US$14 billion) from the start of the e-CNY initiative …