«I was kind of seeing my family there, and it’s a special moment to represent my country in the NHL at home in Prague,» Hertl said.»So, a lot of emotion, and it was just a special moment. I’m so proud I can be even here.»

Mei said the trend of Chinese entrepreneurs setting up base in Singapore as a beachhead for Southeast Asia, was likely to bring capital and new business opportunities in sectors such as digital media and gaming.

‘We’ll make an assessment from [the CCTV] but, obviously, we’re on the back foot from the beginning because we didn’t have the initial complaint at the time it occurred, which would have been my preference,’ he said. 

The hacker, who also claims to be behind a cyber incident at Uber last week, posted a message on the forum about seeking to ‘negotiate a deal’ with Take-Two Interactive Software, owner of Rockstar, which publishes the GTA games. 

‘We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto,’ Rockstar said in a statement. 

«This is the last major market in the world, where you can see a free for all between Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance on one hand, and the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix on the other,» said Joe Ravitch, Raine’s co-founder and partner.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Southeast Asia’s digital media and tech sectors, underpinned by young consumers and one of the fastest growing internet markets, had drawn U.S.investment bank Raine Group to expand in the region, senior executives said.

Sept 27 (Reuters) – Space and Time, a decentralized data analytics platform, secured $20 million in funding from a group of investors led by Microsoft venture capital arm M12, valuing the company at $300 million.

«There is massive amounts of data and use cases coming from blockchain technology’s multi-chain world, and insights and data from centralized data stores … and Space and Time sits at the bridge that links them,» Holiday said.

Ravitch, a former Goldman Sachs banker for 16 years, before he co-founded Raine in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, expects increased cross-border deals in the region, home to about 650 million people.

«The scarcity of capital in an era of volatility, rising interest rates and inflation, will create investment opportunities and require companies to be more strategic,» Ravitch told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the Forbes Global CEO Conference.

The company, which aims to run analytics on data stored on blockchain as well as outside of it for smart contracts, plans to use the funding to hire more engineers, said Nate Holiday, co-founder, Space and Time.

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The company, which had a bumpy time after the bug-ridden launch of «Cyberpunk 2077» game in late 2020, said it started conceptual work on an entirely original project, outside of the Cyberpunk and The Witcher sagas.

Apart from new Pkv games, CD Projekt said it planned to set up a new studio in North America, adding multi-player to the majority of future projects, and further expansion of its franchises into film and TV.

«Our core activities and values remain unchanged. We want to create revolutionary role-playing games with memorable stories that inspire gamers,» the company’s chief executive Adam Kicinski said in a statement.