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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.

Venture Capital

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

Deals in brief: Pi-xcels raises USD 2.7 million, Vynn Capital backs MediSun Energy, Gobi Partners teams up with Cross Capital, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Pi-xcels raises USD 2.7 million, Vynn Capital backs MediSun Energy, Gobi Partners teams up with Cross Capital, and more

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

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Japan, Korea, and the West

Creative

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Nintendo’s new Pokemon mobile game blends nostalgia with a tried-and-true format, but its long-term success is far from guaranteed.

Pokemon TCG Pocket starts strong, but can Nintendo keep the cards in play? | KrASIA

Pokemon TCG Pocket starts strong, but can Nintendo keep the cards in play?

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

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Huawei is gearing up to launch at least ten new vehicle models next year, targeting the high-end automotive market.

Aito M8 to headline Huawei’s 2025 automotive lineup | KrASIA

Aito M8 to headline Huawei’s 2025 automotive lineup

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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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.

KrASIA | Alibaba Archives

Will Alibaba's digital tools will make it possible for SMEs anywhere in the world to operate like MNCs?

Hold on to your hat—Alibaba.com is building a massive new e-commerce platform (Part 1 of 2) | KrASIA

Hold on to your hat—Alibaba.com is building a massive new e-commerce platform (Part 1 of 2)

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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.

Pinduoduo

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

E-Commerce

Galanz stood up to address this issue in public.

Chinese home appliances maker Galanz accuses Tmall of unfair competition after its deal with Pinduoduo | KrASIA

Chinese home appliances maker Galanz accuses Tmall of unfair competition after its deal with Pinduoduo

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Song Jingli

The plan will help "increase the flexibility" for the company's further capital market activities.

Alibaba proposes one-to-eight share split | KrASIA

Alibaba proposes one-to-eight share split

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Luna Lin

Alibaba has filed its initial public offering application with the Hong Kong bourse this week, hoping to raise up to USD 20 billion in the market,

Alibaba reportedly filed for a second IPO in Hong Kong | KrASIA

Alibaba reportedly filed for a second IPO in Hong Kong

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

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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