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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

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

China Tech

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

Proposed reshuffle includes under-fire lending and insurance platforms.

Ant eyes holding company structure under regulatory pressure | KrASIA

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Ant eyes holding company structure under regulatory pressure

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

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

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

E-Commerce

Retail

Shein and Zaful's ultracheap styles drive sales in US, Europe and Middle East.

China's fast-fashion newcomers target Zara in global push | KrASIA

China&#8217;s fast-fashion newcomers target Zara in global push

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Investors

Japan, Korea, and the West

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Tesla

Deep Tech

Smartphones

Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services. 

Space Tech

Amazon and Tesla join the fray for future mobile communication infrastructure.

SoftBank sets eye on airborne telecom base stations | KrASIA

SoftBank sets eye on airborne telecom base stations

Xpeng

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

Electric Vehicles

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

Transportation

Companies speed up exports with support of governments despite COVID.

Chinese EV maker Xpeng and rivals bet on European market | KrASIA

Chinese EV maker Xpeng and rivals bet on European market

New-energy-vehicle market expected to reach 1.8m units in 2021.

China slashes eco-car subsidies 20% as sales rebound | KrASIA

China slashes eco-car subsidies 20% as sales rebound

Investment

China Mobile tumbles to lowest level since 2006, while oil companies also fall.

Chinese telecom shares drop in Hong Kong on NYSE act to delist | KrASIA

Chinese telecom shares drop in Hong Kong on NYSE act to delist

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

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. 

Global tech-giant scrutiny casts shadow on Ambani's growth tactics in India.

Reliance copies Facebook's playbook, including antitrust fears | KrASIA

Reliance copies Facebook&#8217;s playbook, including antitrust fears

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

Alibaba

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

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

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

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

New battleground for internet giants threatens small businesses.

China's community group-buying fever meets Beijing's snub | KrASIA

China&#8217;s community group-buying fever meets Beijing&#8217;s snub

SEA to offer $400m convertible notes after losses tripled in Q1

Sea Group

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

TSMC joins global top 20 in market cap, as analysts say market rally still has legs.

Nikkei Asia

Ant eyes holding company structure under regulatory pressure

China’s fast-fashion newcomers target Zara in global push

SoftBank sets eye on airborne telecom base stations

Chinese EV maker Xpeng and rivals bet on European market

China slashes eco-car subsidies 20% as sales rebound

Chinese telecom shares drop in Hong Kong on NYSE act to delist

Reliance copies Facebook’s playbook, including antitrust fears

China’s community group-buying fever meets Beijing’s snub

Sea and BYD biggest winners among major Asia stocks in 2020