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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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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more

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

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

China Tech

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

The Chinese tech company is spending billions, snapping up talent in its battle against the US crackdown.

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai | KrASIA

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&#038;D center in Shanghai

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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

Douyin

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

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

E-Commerce

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Retail

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Commerce

E-commerce

quick commerce

Meituan Shangou, its quick commerce business, could play a significant role in its strategy to counter competition from main rival Douyin.

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business | KrASIA

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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

Alibaba

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

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

Transportation

smart cars

Tmall Genie

Alibaba is adding smart speakers in Audi, Renault and Honda cars to improve car-human interaction | KrASIA

Alibaba is adding smart speakers in Audi, Renault and Honda cars to improve car-human interaction

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Top-tier AI chip companies are sought after, while mediocre startups will find difficulty in financing

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

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Barefoot Networks' flagship product is one of the fastest networking chips in the world.

Intel to acquire Alibaba- and Tencent-backed switch chip maker | KrASIA

Intel to acquire Alibaba- and Tencent-backed switch chip maker

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

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.

baidu

Smart speakers

xiaomi

They are as popular as PCs and smart TVs.

China sees a nearly eightfold increase in smart speaker shipment | KrASIA

China sees a nearly eightfold increase in smart speaker shipment

Russia

social commerce

The deal will see AliExpress Russia collaborate with parts of Mail.ru's e-commerce business

Alibaba's Russia operations link up with Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Mail.ru in major JV | KrASIA

Alibaba&#8217;s Russia operations link up with Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Mail.ru in major JV

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Ele.me

Hummingbird

Hummingbird fulfills an average delivery time of fewer than 30 minutes.

Alibaba upgrades Ele.me’s logistics network Hummingbird into a standalone unit   | KrASIA

Alibaba upgrades Ele.me’s logistics network Hummingbird into a standalone unit  

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Lao Bei

bonds

Red Star Macalline

It would use RMB 1.8 billion from the first batch of the bonds to repay old debt.

After gaining USD 633m from Alibaba, Chinese furniture retail center developer Red Star Macalline plans to issue USD 579m in bonds | KrASIA

After gaining USD 633m from Alibaba, Chinese furniture retail center developer Red Star Macalline plans to issue USD 579m in bonds

E-cigarettes

New tobacco

Tmall

Government regulations for e-cigarettes may soon be in place.

Alibaba hints at future e-cigarette sales on Tmall | KrASIA

Alibaba hints at future e-cigarette sales on Tmall

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Short video

Vmate

The app now has 30 million monthly active users.

Indian short video app VMate gains USD 100 million from Alibaba to take on TikTok | KrASIA

Indian short video app VMate gains USD 100 million from Alibaba to take on TikTok

Piaoniu.com, a Ticketing Platform Offering Data Service for Companies in Upstream Markets, Finishes Series B Funding

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