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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

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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

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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

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

Xiaomi

baidu

Smart speakers

Baidu is in urgent need to find a new frontier and smart speakers are very good entry points for their services

Baidu dethrones Alibaba as China's top smart speaker vendor in Q1 2019 | KrASIA

Baidu dethrones Alibaba as China&#8217;s top smart speaker vendor in Q1 2019

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Luna Lin

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

E-Commerce

AliExpress

consumer protection

The complaints concern AliExpress' return and dispute resolution policies.

Alibaba’s AliExpress criticized by European consumer bodies | KrASIA

Alibaba’s AliExpress criticized by European consumer bodies

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Lao Bei

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

Transportation

AutoNavi

Gaode

Small shops have a new channel to reach more than 100 million potential customers.

Alibaba’s map app rolls out listings for mom-and-pop shops | KrASIA

Alibaba’s map app rolls out listings for mom-and-pop shops

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

Didi

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.

Grab

InMobi

Xiaohongshu

Yitu

Three Chinese and two Southeast Asian tech companies named as 2019 disruptors by CNBC | KrASIA

Three Chinese and two Southeast Asian tech companies named as 2019 disruptors by CNBC

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Song Jingli

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

Enterprise Services

Cloud

Oracle

oracle layoffs

Alibaba's cloud computing business grew 84% year-on-year.

Alibaba Cloud lures Oracle clients with cloud-based database products | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud lures Oracle clients with cloud-based database products

Taobao

Tmall

Alibaba's core commerce businesses still account for almost 90% of overall revenue.

After years of diversification, Alibaba is still an e-commerce company | KrASIA

After years of diversification, Alibaba is still an e-commerce company

Home goods

Red Star Macalline

The two companies will cooperate on selling furniture and home products online as well as on revitalizing department stores and shopping malls.

Alibaba hones in on home goods sector with USD 633 million investment | KrASIA

Alibaba hones in on home goods sector with USD 633 million investment

Fliggy

Marriott

Tourism

Alibaba is a powerful platform to tap into rising demand from China.

Marriott earnings spotlights Alibaba partnership | KrASIA

Marriott earnings spotlights Alibaba partnership

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

BEST

Best serves TMall and Taobao, among other e-commerce heavyweights.