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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Vietnam

The Chinese tech group is renting server space from state-owned partners in the meantime.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law | KrASIA

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Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Douyin

Tiktok

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Content

Creative

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Video

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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Jeff Chay

Photo of Victor Lysenko, founder and CEO of Osome.

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Cambodia

India

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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Japan, Korea, and the West

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Apple's GMV on Tmall surpassed USD 14 million within the first hours of Alibaba's shopping bonanza.

Apple slashes iPhone prices on Singles’ Day shopping festival for the first time, up to USD 158 off | KrASIA

Apple slashes iPhone prices on Singles’ Day shopping festival for the first time, up to USD 158 off

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

Wireless headset sector is seen as a huge new market.

Apple AirPods craze spreads to China, becoming music to the ears of wireless-headset stock investors | KrASIA

Apple AirPods craze spreads to China, becoming music to the ears of wireless-headset stock investors

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SCMP

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Videos

How do people feel about these phones one month after release?

What do Chinese consumers think of the iPhone 11 and Mate30? | KrASIA

What do Chinese consumers think of the iPhone 11 and Mate30?

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James Chan

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

The company expects to sell 240 million smartphones in 2019.

Huawei shipment grows 66% in third quarter despite slowing home market: report | KrASIA

Huawei shipment grows 66% in third quarter despite slowing home market: report

But the counterfeit industry is already shadowing Apple's updates.

Apple steps up fight against counterfeits by disabling AirPods knockoffs on its latest iOS 13 | KrASIA

Apple steps up fight against counterfeits by disabling AirPods knockoffs on its latest iOS 13

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Apple has plans to shift 15-30% of its production from China to other countries amid an escalating US-China trade war.

Apple slowly adds new components to be manufactured locally in India | KrASIA

Apple slowly adds new components to be manufactured locally in India

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Avanish Tiwary

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

Netflix

Apple TV launched at monthly rate of USD 1.4 in India to take on Netflix and Amazon Prime

Apple needs content, not cut-rate price, to win India entertainment market | KrASIA

Apple needs content, not cut-rate price, to win India entertainment market

Chinese customers can start pre-ordering new iPhone 11 this Friday, Apple’s China website shows.

The US phone maker has some key questions left unanswered: price, 5G and trade war.

Can iPhone 11 turn around Apple's fortunes in China? | KrASIA

Can iPhone 11 turn around Apple&#8217;s fortunes in China?

Samsung, LG Display face threat if BOE were to win orders from Apple

China’s display maker BOE could take on South Korean peers in flexible OLED space | KrASIA

China’s display maker BOE could take on South Korean peers in flexible OLED space

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