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

Alibaba

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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

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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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

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Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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.

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Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more

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Japan

The industry is aiming to start mutual use of QR code payment systems in Southeast Asia and India by Expo 2025 Osaka.

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code | KrASIA

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

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

China Tech

Lending

The company was founded by former Ant Group employees.

XTransfer simplifies cross-border payments for exporters | Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Agriculture

Thailand

Can a free app improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers? Aukrit Unahalekhaka thinks so.

Ricult is building a 'Bloomberg Terminal' for Thailand's agricultural sector: Startup Stories | KrASIA

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Stephanie Li

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

E-Commerce

Taking a page from the likes of Pinduoduo, Webuy hosts a fleet of community leaders to funnel groceries to customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Webuy is Southeast Asia’s breakout social commerce service: Startup Stories | KrASIA

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Shannen Tan

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

India Tech

The HR tech startup targets users looking for jobs in sales and customer support.

Able Jobs makes entry-level hiring easier for companies in India: Startup Stories | KrASIA

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Avanish Tiwary

Creative

Retail

IDS BuyBuyBuy blends content and e-commerce into a WeChat mini program to lure modern beauty shoppers.

A cross-border cosmetics boutique and beauty brand incubator all within WeChat: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

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AJ Cortese

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.

Deep Tech

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

Enterprise Services

Beijing-based AI firm Aibee digitizes "space, people, and products" for brick-and-mortar retailers.

This firm digitizes offline shopping: Inside China's Startups  | KrASIA

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

On-Demand Services

Recykal works with more than 75 brands, including Coke, Pepsi, Unilever, LG, and Panasonic.

Recykal is India's Uber of waste collection | Startup Stories | KrASIA

The company may be expanding to lend money to SMEs as well.

"Micro-loans for all" is ZestMoney's mantra: Startup Stories | KrASIA

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

Aside from its car-sharing business, Tribecar also provides fleet management software services to other companies.

Startup Stories

XTransfer simplifies cross-border payments for exporters | Inside China’s Startups

Ricult is building a ‘Bloomberg Terminal’ for Thailand’s agricultural sector: Startup Stories

Webuy is Southeast Asia’s breakout social commerce service: Startup Stories

Able Jobs makes entry-level hiring easier for companies in India: Startup Stories

A cross-border cosmetics boutique and beauty brand incubator all within WeChat: Inside China’s Startups

This firm digitizes offline shopping: Inside China’s Startups

Recykal is India’s Uber of waste collection | Startup Stories

“Micro-loans for all” is ZestMoney’s mantra: Startup Stories

This firm wants Singaporeans to ditch private vehicles for shared cars: Startup Stories

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Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more

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