A radical alternative to cloud computing servers

: The US$16 million series A round of an Indian healthtech firm. [Read from your browser]( Daily Newsletter Welcome to Tech in Asia's free Daily Newsletter! Get full access to our subscribers-only Daily Newsletter and other insightful analysis on the big and messy topics of Asia’s tech and startup community by [registering here](.  --------------------------------------------------------------- IN FOCUS In today's newsletter, we spotlight: - [Whether P2P can beat cloud servers]( - South Korean traveltech firm Onda’s international journey - Other newsy highlights such as the US$16 million series A round of an Indian healthtech startup --------------------------------------------------------------- Hello {NAME} Do you remember the old anti-piracy ad that went: “You wouldn’t download a car?” Actually, if that were possible, I think most people would have. Such were the days of Napster and LimeWire, when burned CDs became the modern-day mixtapes and provided the soundtracks to many adolescent years. I’m clearly waxing lyrical about a bygone era, but if today’s premium article is anything to go by, that same energy over peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing still exists. And apparently, it’s fueling a desire to “break Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s ‘monopoly’ in cloud computing servers.” Read on to find out more. -- Winston  ---------------------------------------------------------------  THE BIG STORY [Tether CEO wants to break Microsoft, AWS, Google’s hold on cloud computing]( The crypto firm behind the world’s largest stablecoin wants to revive the same tech used by Napster that broke the music business in the late 1990s. --------------------------------------------------------------- TRENDING NEWS [Traveltech firm Onda eyes $15m raise as it restarts SEA, MENA expansion plans]( The South Korean startup, whose partners include Kakao, Naver, and Google, logged US$230 million in GMV for 2023. 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