Ryde Group Ltd. partners with Tencent Cloud to enhance its ride-hailing and carpooling platform in Southeast Asia, leveraging real-time communication technology and expanding into new services.

While Bitcoin offered little for volatility-loving traders on Thursday, its cheaper offshoots kept the market interested.

Leading cryptocurrencies moved sideways Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled slower growth and hotter inflation after the central bank left interest rates unchanged.