Southeast Asian giants Grab and Go-Jek certainly have taken the a large share of recent headlines.

A summary of leading stories between November 13-19, 2017 across Southeast Asia.

It will not be easy for anyone to win the ride-sharing war in Southeast Asia, and it looks like the battle has just begun.

As of September 2017, funding totals have more than doubled those from 2016 at 6.4 billion dollars.

Using our phones to handle daily tasks may seem like second nature now, but we tend to forget how quickly technology has advanced since 2010.

“Our team in Indonesia is close to 95 percent local, with a deep understanding of the Indonesian market and consumers. It is essentially the same in all the other offices throughout the SEA region," said Raymond Siva, Country Head of Edelman Indonesia.

Go-Jek and Grab have rolled out mobile digital-payment services, seeing it as a way to scale their businesses and build a potentially lucrative business.

Late last year, Uber had a run-in with Indonesia police over the location of an office in Jakarta providing support to local drivers.

US-based service providers like Uber and Netflix are losing the battle against local startups in Southeast Asia.

Mobile banking in Southeast Asia is undergoing rapid changes due to the growth of mobile applications.