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

Alibaba

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

E-Commerce

UCWeb will partner with Flipkart and Paytm Mall to offer online shopping 'within this year.'

Alibaba to launch e-commerce service in India through subsidiary UCWeb | KrASIA

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Alibaba to launch e-commerce service in India through subsidiary UCWeb

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

Travel

ScoutMyTrip puts the road trip planning industry at USD 6.6 billion.

Indian road trip planner ScoutMyTrip treks into Indonesia: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Indian road trip planner ScoutMyTrip treks into Indonesia: Startup Stories

Swiggy

Food Delivery

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Swiggy and other food delivery companies got into trouble last month as 25,000 restaurants logged out of their platforms.

Meituan-backed Indian food delivery unicorn Swiggy launches on-demand delivery service | KrASIA

Meituan-backed Indian food delivery unicorn Swiggy launches on-demand delivery service

Flipkart

After the recent sale of his stake in Flipkart, Binny Bansal still owns a little over 3% in the company.

Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal offloads shares worth USD 14 million to Tiger Global | KrASIA

Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal offloads shares worth USD 14 million to Tiger Global

Paytm

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

Paytm also expanded its offering in ed-tech space with education loans and educations specific insurance products.

Alibaba’s Indian bet Paytm enters healthcare space in diversification efforts | KrASIA

Alibaba’s Indian bet Paytm enters healthcare space in diversification efforts

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.

This will be OnePlus' biggest R&D center globally in three years.

OnePlus plans USD 140 million investment to make Hyderabad R&D center its largest globally | KrASIA

OnePlus plans USD 140 million investment to make Hyderabad R&#038;D center its largest globally

India retracts angel tax, the sword of Damocles for its startup ecosystem, after introducing it seven years ago.

India gets rid of the 'Angel tax'—a devil for startups | KrASIA

India gets rid of the &#8216;Angel tax&#8217;—a devil for startups

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

The Jack Ma-led firm has some of the most valued companies in its portfolio such as Paytm, Zomato and BigBasket.

Alibaba holds off new deals in India as it re-evaluates its past investments | KrASIA

Alibaba holds off new deals in India as it re-evaluates its past investments

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

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

Xiaomi

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

TikTok, which competes with Facebook as well in India, claims it has 200 million users.