Friday, 27 March 2020 started like any other day at HOOQ, the pan-Southeast Asia streaming service majority-owned by mobile operator Singtel. Well, as normal as is possible during the Covid-19 outbreak.
But an exchange filing and an afternoon town hall meeting left the company’s hundreds of employees stunned: HOOQ was to be closed. Singtel filed Singtel filed TechCrunch Streaming service Hooq files for liquidation Read more to liquidate the five-year-old business weeks after it announced cost-cutting measures to battle the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on its business.