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Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more

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Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

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Japan, Korea, and the West

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.

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To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools | KrASIA

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

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

KrASIA | Alibaba Archives

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

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

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

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Chinese tech companies aim to share their experience and solutions while attracting overseas users.

Chinese medtech platforms tap overseas market with bilingual services during coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

Chinese medtech platforms tap overseas market with bilingual services during coronavirus outbreak

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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.

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

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Pinduoduo is currently mired in heavy financial losses.

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo plans USD 1.1 billion private placement for long-term investors (updated) | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo plans USD 1.1 billion private placement for long-term investors (updated)

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This move comes after the firm’s net income in the fourth quarter of last year decreased by 42.9% year-on-year.

Weibo opens e-commerce management tool to over 500 million users | KrASIA

Weibo opens e-commerce management tool to over 500 million users

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

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

Automation technologies seen as key to reducing dependence on US tech.

China covets Japan's IoT expertise, a missing piece in tech quest | KrASIA

China covets Japan&#8217;s IoT expertise, a missing piece in tech quest

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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Fenfu will allow users to acquire goods and repay the bill at a later date.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial

Pinduoduo employees have reported a ban from Alibaba to use Taobao's Juhuasuan, while Alibaba says that it will not allow violation of the platform's terms.

Pinduoduo and Alibaba clash over ban affecting group-buying platform Juhuasuan | KrASIA

Pinduoduo and Alibaba clash over ban affecting group-buying platform Juhuasuan

According to one industry ranking, OceanBase beats Oracle in terms of performance.

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches SaaS version of its internal database infrastructure to increase tech service revenues | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches SaaS version of its internal database infrastructure to increase tech service revenues

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The China e-commerce giant is said to have devoted at least USD 800 million in sponsorship for the Olympic Games.

KEY STAT | Alibaba sees Olympic vision hanging in the air after postponement of Tokyo Games | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Alibaba sees Olympic vision hanging in the air after postponement of Tokyo Games

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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

Last Sunday, on average, theaters in China had less than one person for each screened movie.