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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

Mobility

Beijing doubles earlier target as Baidu and Didi test robotaxis.

China wants self-driving tech in half of new cars by 2025 | KrASIA

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China wants self-driving tech in half of new cars by 2025

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

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Microsoft

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.

US tech giant vows to empower world to reduce carbon emissions.

AI has role in future of public health: Microsoft president Smith | KrASIA

AI has role in future of public health: Microsoft president Smith

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

Investment

Vision Fund chief Rajeev Misra and COO Marcelo Claure removed from board.

SoftBank swings to USD 6 billion quarterly profit | KrASIA

SoftBank swings to USD 6 billion quarterly profit

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

Lure of big returns remains despite reminder of Beijing's power.

China investors rethink market risk after Ant's scuppered IPO | KrASIA

China investors rethink market risk after Ant&#8217;s scuppered IPO

Battery

Electric Vehicles

From mines to batteries and cars, country to shoot for ASEAN hub status.

Indonesia aims to grab EV supply chain with CATL and Hyundai | KrASIA

Indonesia aims to grab EV supply chain with CATL and Hyundai

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

Alibaba

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

China Tech

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

E-Commerce

Strong China retail sales buffer group against fintech affiliate's IPO turmoil.

Alibaba expected to fly above Ant turmoil with strong growth | KrASIA

Alibaba expected to fly above Ant turmoil with strong growth

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. 

Investments seen as boost to economy while country tries to make up gap.

Japan's SoftBank and KDDI to pump USD 38 billion into 5G | KrASIA

Japan&#8217;s SoftBank and KDDI to pump USD 38 billion into 5G

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

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

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

SoftBank's investment vehicle steps away from winner-takes-all playbook.

Vision Fund's new strategy: smaller bets, bigger returns | KrASIA

Vision Fund&#8217;s new strategy: smaller bets, bigger returns

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. 

Nikkei Asia

China wants self-driving tech in half of new cars by 2025

AI has role in future of public health: Microsoft president Smith

SoftBank swings to USD 6 billion quarterly profit

China investors rethink market risk after Ant’s scuppered IPO

Indonesia aims to grab EV supply chain with CATL and Hyundai

Alibaba expected to fly above Ant turmoil with strong growth

Japan’s SoftBank and KDDI to pump USD 38 billion into 5G

Vision Fund’s new strategy: smaller bets, bigger returns

How AI and vast data support Ant Group’s financial empire