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

Didi

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

Transportation

Highlights from the past week, as well as something cool for the weekend.

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

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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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Xiaochun Zhao

Emerging technologies, powered by big data, algorithms, and AI, are increasingly taking over human editors and reshaping the media industry in a way unseen before. In this article, we tell stories happened in the new era of media we all live in.

Collapse or Reborn? The Media Industry in the Age of AI (Part 3) | KrASIA

Collapse or Reborn? The Media Industry in the Age of AI (Part 3)

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

Enterprise Services

HarbData helps retailers (distributors) establish data analysis systems, integrating user data in the process, and ultimately serving brand owners.

Deals | China's Dunnhumby Banks Tens of Millions of RMB, Consumer Science Company HarbData May Have the Largest Offline Consumer Database | KrASIA

Deals | China&#8217;s Dunnhumby Banks Tens of Millions of RMB, Consumer Science Company HarbData May Have the Largest Offline Consumer Database

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

Plus, oBike announced to have logged over 10 million rides in 60 cities. Intel share price has dropped over 5% since a report on the vulnerability of its chips.

Kr-Asia Daily: Tencent Helped Spotify Solve A $1 Billion Debt Problem | KrASIA

Kr-Asia Daily: Tencent Helped Spotify Solve A $1 Billion Debt Problem

Didi's strategy for globalization is backed by its $12 billion cash reserves.

Analysis: By Acquiring Brazilian 99, Didi Sets a Foothold in Latin America, Where Escalated War Between Uber and Didi Is Expected | KrASIA

Analysis: By Acquiring Brazilian 99, Didi Sets a Foothold in Latin America, Where Escalated War Between Uber and Didi Is Expected

Plus, South Korean ride-sharing startup SoCar, is set to launch its service in Malaysia. Spotify reported having filed IPO documents with the SEC.

Kr-Asia Daily: Didi Acquires Brazilian Taxi and Car-Hailing Company 99 | KrASIA

Kr-Asia Daily: Didi Acquires Brazilian Taxi and Car-Hailing Company 99

What makes Meipian stand out is a target market consisting primarily of middle-aged users and the ability to achieve high growth by taking advantage of established social networking platforms.

Deals | Offering Middle-Aged Users with A Content Generation Tool, Post Editing App Meipian Banks $6.6M | KrASIA

Deals | Offering Middle-Aged Users with A Content Generation Tool, Post Editing App Meipian Banks $6.6M

Plus, Regional VC firm Gobi Partners expands ASEAN team with two new VPs. Uber is studying a subscription model for UberEats, its food delivery service.

Kr-Asia Daily: Didi Acquires Bike-Sharing Startup Bluegogo, Escalating The Competition in China's Transportation Industry | KrASIA

Kr-Asia Daily: Didi Acquires Bike-Sharing Startup Bluegogo, Escalating The Competition in China&#8217;s Transportation Industry

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

Plus, Bitcoin started the year by tumbling. Salarium teamed up with Unionbank of the Philippines to develop the blockchain wallet.