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

China Tech

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

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

Entertainment

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

The two companies have been cooperating on movie production since April 2017.

Tencent boosts movie and gaming business with acquisition of cartoon studio Byment | KrASIA

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Tencent boosts movie and gaming business with acquisition of cartoon studio Byment

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Song Jingli

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

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

E-Commerce

Grocery Delivery

Shangjia Xiaochengxu aims to help the retail sector to upgrade digitally and seek additional revenue growth.

WeChat Pay launches feature for brick-and-mortar merchants, takes on Meituan and Ele.me | KrASIA

WeChat Pay launches feature for brick-and-mortar merchants, takes on Meituan and Ele.me

Electric Vehicles

In May, another Li One caught fire in Changsha, when a car paint protective pad, that was stuck to the exhaust pipe, ignited.

CHINA BRIEF | Li One vehicle catches fire on the road, two hospitalized | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Li One vehicle catches fire on the road, two hospitalized

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.

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

Enterprise Services

The company features a big data platform which can monitor online information and generate analysis reports automatically.

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Adademy of Sciences-affiliated AI startup Wenge raises USD 29 million in Series C | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Adademy of Sciences-affiliated AI startup Wenge raises USD 29 million in Series C

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Fanslink plans to expand to Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

Fanslink scores millions of dollars in pre-Series A to help Chinese brands go global | KrASIA

Fanslink scores millions of dollars in pre-Series A to help Chinese brands go global

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

Deep Tech

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.

Yungongchang, which was founded in 2015, is a SaaS provider that helps companies find mechanical and electronic parts directly from factories.

CHINA BRIEF | Foxconn-backed B2B procurement platform closes USD 14.4 million Series B | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Foxconn-backed B2B procurement platform closes USD 14.4 million Series B

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

Alibaba

This share sale comes at a time when online healthcare consultation services have played a key role in alleviating the coronavirus crisis.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba Health to raise USD 1.3 billion to expand pharmaceutical and healthcare business | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba Health to raise USD 1.3 billion to expand pharmaceutical and healthcare business

Yipien runs nearly 900 fresh-food neighborhood supermarkets in 17 cities in China.

CHINA BRIEF | Grocery chain Yipien Fresh closes USD 359 million Series C round led by Tencent and Today Capital | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Grocery chain Yipien Fresh closes USD 359 million Series C round led by Tencent and Today Capital

Investments are expected for sectors including construction materials, home appliance, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things.