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

Entertainment

Inke’s local rival Huya and Douyu are all eyeing to list this year.

Live-streaming Platform Inke Files to List in HK Ahead of Tencent’s Douyu and Huya | KrASIA

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Live-streaming Platform Inke Files to List in HK Ahead of Tencent’s Douyu and Huya

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I'm Xiaochun with KrASIA [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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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

Plus, Alibaba is in talks to build a logistics center in Thailand. Facebook is heading toward its worst month since May 2013.

KrASIA Daily: SoftBank Mulls Investing $1 Billion in China’s Truck-hailing Unicorn Manbang | KrASIA

KrASIA Daily: SoftBank Mulls Investing $1 Billion in China’s Truck-hailing Unicorn Manbang

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

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

On-Demand Services

The world’s two largest ride-hailing companies, Didi Chuxing and Uber are now all Grab’s shareholders.

Deals | Uber Sells Businesses in SE Asia to Local Rival Grab (Updated with Grab Internal Email to Staff) | KrASIA

Deals | Uber Sells Businesses in SE Asia to Local Rival Grab (Updated with Grab Internal Email to Staff)

Plus, Ant Financial CEO: blockchain technologies will be the cornerstone of the future digital society. Waymo CEO said Waymo would likely have avoided the fatal Uber crash.

KrASIA Daily: Uber Is Retreating from SE Asia | KrASIA

KrASIA Daily: Uber Is Retreating from SE Asia

According to a newly released report, China has 164 Chinese unicorns worth in total $ 628.4 billion.

KrASIA Weekly Roundup: Is China Underestimated in Terms of Incubating Unicorn Startups? | KrASIA

KrASIA Weekly Roundup: Is China Underestimated in Terms of Incubating Unicorn Startups?

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

China has 587.5 active credit cards as of December 31, 2017

China’s Largest Credit Card Service Startup 51 Credit Card Filed to List in HK | KrASIA

China’s Largest Credit Card Service Startup 51 Credit Card Filed to List in HK

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

Tencent and Walmart are all major shareholders in JD.com.

Walmart Sides with Tencent; Stops Accepting Alipay in Southwest China Stores | KrASIA

Walmart Sides with Tencent; Stops Accepting Alipay in Southwest China Stores

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

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

Plus, Tokopedia plans to build an innovation center. Dropbox priced IPO at $21 per share.