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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, farmers and merchants in rural China have been trying new methods to sell their products, with livestreaming as a major, yet complicated resource.

The challenges of transitioning China's rural economy to livestreaming | KrASIA

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The challenges of transitioning China&#8217;s rural economy to livestreaming

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AJ Cortese

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

search engine

Sogou

Sogou has struggled in the US capital markets ahead of Tencent's go-private offer.

Tencent to acquire Chinese search engine Sogou | KrASIA

Tencent to acquire Chinese search engine Sogou

A Chinese biotech company wants its employee to work even after age 100

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Hillhouse Capital's long-term plays in domestic healthcare are starting to pay off.

Turning billions into trillions: How a Chinese VC struck gold in healthcare | KrASIA

Turning billions into trillions: How a Chinese VC struck gold in healthcare

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

Xiaomi

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

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

Chinese home appliance companies are modernizing by empowering their products with technology.

These six Chinese home appliance brands are bringing the Internet of Things to your home | KrASIA

These six Chinese home appliance brands are bringing the Internet of Things to your home

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

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

With Alipay and WeChat Pay dominating China's mobile payments sector, PayPal's GoPay searches for other market niches.

PayPal's GoPay scrounges for opportunities in China's payments market | KrASIA

PayPal&#8217;s GoPay scrounges for opportunities in China&#8217;s payments market

Airbnb

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

home-sharing

online travel

Sharing economy

The home-sharing market in China has transitioned from growth to stabilization as the impact of COVID-19 persists.

Airbnb's battle against local unicorns resumes as China's home-sharing market recovers | KrASIA

Airbnb&#8217;s battle against local unicorns resumes as China&#8217;s home-sharing market recovers

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. 

Read stories of Travel service providers, platforms or the trending of the travel industry.

Travel

5G's impact goes deeper than consumer-facing tech products, with the potential to spark deep industrial evolution.

More than just mobile, 5G plays a central role in China's new industrial push | KrASIA

More than just mobile, 5G plays a central role in China&#8217;s new industrial push

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

From the historic Canton Fair to Apple's WWDC20, offline events are forced to transition online for the first time.

How have offline events embraced digitization as COVID-19 persists? | KrASIA

How have offline events embraced digitization as COVID-19 persists?

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

India

smartphones

Vivo

xiaomi

China is home to three of the world's top five smartphone makers accounting for over one-third of global sales.

AJ Cortese

The challenges of transitioning China’s rural economy to livestreaming

Tencent to acquire Chinese search engine Sogou

Turning billions into trillions: How a Chinese VC struck gold in healthcare

These six Chinese home appliance brands are bringing the Internet of Things to your home

PayPal’s GoPay scrounges for opportunities in China’s payments market

Airbnb’s battle against local unicorns resumes as China’s home-sharing market recovers

More than just mobile, 5G plays a central role in China’s new industrial push

How have offline events embraced digitization as COVID-19 persists?

How are China’s smartphone titans reacting to the struggling market?