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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

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China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

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

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

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

Alibaba

Taobao

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

Tmall

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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Marvin Goh

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

India

MENA

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more

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KrASIA Writers

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

KrASIA | OPPO Archives

China Tech

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

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

Creative

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Smartphones

Oppo’s latest release follows Xiaomi's wraparound display and Huawei's foldable display.

Oppo debuts concept smartphone with expandable display | KrASIA

Oppo debuts concept smartphone with expandable display

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Deep Tech

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

Problems with the new mandatory IMEI registration system have caused smartphone makers to halt production and sales of new devices.

How Indonesia's plan to battle illegal phone sales backfired | KrASIA

How Indonesia&#8217;s plan to battle illegal phone sales backfired

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Ursula Florene

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. 

VP says smartphone maker aims to be a top player after Deutsche Telekom deal.

China's Oppo makes play for European growth as Huawei slips | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Oppo makes play for European growth as Huawei slips

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

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

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

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Think that's high? The rate goes up to 50% for app stores in China, the world's largest Android market.

Google to enforce 30% cut from app developers | KrASIA

Google to enforce 30% cut from app developers

Samsung

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

Xiaomi

Samsung led the premium smartphone segment with a 37% market share in the first half of 2020.

Samsung and OnePlus gear up for a fight as competition intensifies in India's premium smartphone segment | KrASIA

Samsung and OnePlus gear up for a fight as competition intensifies in India&#8217;s premium smartphone segment

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

The announcement comes just after Huawei announced last week the second version of its in-house Android replacement—the HarmonyOS operating system.

Oppo rolls out Android-like operating system, ColorOS 11 | KrASIA

Oppo rolls out Android-like operating system, ColorOS 11

As of tomorrow the Chinese champion will be cut off from its suppliers.

Huawei enters a new world: How the US ban will affect global tech | KrASIA

Huawei enters a new world: How the US ban will affect global tech

Chinese smartphone makers took a larger share of the local market in Q2 2020 than ever before.

Vivo beats Samsung to become top-selling phone brand in Indonesia | KrASIA

Vivo beats Samsung to become top-selling phone brand in Indonesia

Oppo, the world's fifth largest smartphone vendor, has seen sales drop 15.9% year-on-year in the second quarter to 28 million. 

OPPO

Oppo debuts concept smartphone with expandable display

How Indonesia’s plan to battle illegal phone sales backfired

China’s Oppo makes play for European growth as Huawei slips

Google to enforce 30% cut from app developers

Samsung and OnePlus gear up for a fight as competition intensifies in India’s premium smartphone segment

Oppo rolls out Android-like operating system, ColorOS 11

Huawei enters a new world: How the US ban will affect global tech

Vivo beats Samsung to become top-selling phone brand in Indonesia

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