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

Alibaba

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

Tencent Weishi

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

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.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Entertainment

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

Bytedance is a latecomer in the IoV sector filled with players including Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu.

ByteDance steers into automobile sector with plans to integrate Douyin and Toutiao into cars | KrASIA

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ByteDance steers into automobile sector with plans to integrate Douyin and Toutiao into cars

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Song Jingli

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

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

The company's digital payment services have been used by more than one-third of the country's population.

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial invests USD 73.5 million in Myanmar firm Wave Money | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial invests USD 73.5 million in Myanmar firm Wave Money

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

The company has gone live an enterprise-facing cloud service platform called Huoshan Yinqing.

ByteDance ventures into cloud computing sector with launch of Huoshan Yinqing | KrASIA

ByteDance ventures into cloud computing sector with launch of Huoshan Yinqing

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

Kuaishou sets a yearly target of RMB 250 billion in livestreaming e-commerce GMV, above Douyin's target of RMB 200 billion.

Kuaishou sets goal to beat Douyin livestream sales by USD 7 billion | KrASIA

Kuaishou sets goal to beat Douyin livestream sales by USD 7 billion

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

Data Grand develops tech that can partially replace humans in a variety of tasks including data comparison and analysis and document reading.

CHINA BRIEF | AI startup Data Grand closes USD 38 million Series B+ round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | AI startup Data Grand closes USD 38 million Series B+ round

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. 

The firm generated USD 904.9 million in revenue in the first quarter, representing a yearly 35.3% historical high increase.

China Brief | Chip foundry firm SMIC books USD 64.2 million in net profits, up 422.8% year-on-year | KrASIA

China Brief | Chip foundry firm SMIC books USD 64.2 million in net profits, up 422.8% year-on-year

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

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

On-Demand Services

Dada Nexus' IPO marks the second China-based company aiming to go public in the US after the Luckin Coffee scandal involving fraudulent financials.

Delivery company Dada Nexus latest China firm to file for US IPO | KrASIA

Delivery company Dada Nexus latest China firm to file for US IPO

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

Motovis provides automakers with different levels of automation solutions.

CHINA BRIEF| Autonomous driving solution provider Motovis scores USD 14 million in Series A2 round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF| Autonomous driving solution provider Motovis scores USD 14 million in Series A2 round

Cainiao has partnered with 4PX Express, a cross-border e-commerce solutions provider headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.