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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

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

China Tech

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

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

From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain staff as competition ramps up.

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

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

JD.com

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

Apart from selling its own cars, JD aims to handle every aspect of the automotive business.

What is JD's blueprint for entering the new energy vehicle industry? | KrASIA

What is JD&#8217;s blueprint for entering the new energy vehicle industry?

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Climate

Deep Tech

Energy

China is tapping into emerging markets for its solar exports amid trade tensions with the US and Europe.

China’s solar surplus creates opportunities for emerging green markets | KrASIA

China’s solar surplus creates opportunities for emerging green markets

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Jeff Chay

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization.

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Flipkart

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

E-Commerce

India's FDI policy bars online marketplaces from offering deep discounts and forging exclusive deals with brands.

India to look closer at discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart during festive season | KrASIA

India to look closer at discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart during festive season

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Priya Pradeep

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.

Smart speaker vendors are expanding the AI assistant technology into Chinese’s everyday lives.

85% of Chinese sans smart speaker plan to get one: report | KrASIA

85% of Chinese sans smart speaker plan to get one: report

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

The e-commerce giant will employ a dedicated team to support Vietnamese businesses to sell globally on Amazon.

Amazon launches its Global Selling program in Vietnam | KrASIA

Amazon launches its Global Selling program in Vietnam

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Thu Huong Le

Cloudtail had to temporarily halt its operations in February 2019 due to changes in India's FDI rules.

Amazon India’s biggest seller Cloudtail reports profitability in FY 2019 | KrASIA

Amazon India’s biggest seller Cloudtail reports profitability in FY 2019

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

Alibaba

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. 

Ant Group

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

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. 

Google

Paytm

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

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

Global giants like Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are keeping a close watch on Indian digital payments opportunity, which is very much untapped since half of the Indians are yet to come online.

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off | KrASIA

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

Snapdeal

Amid slowdown, the Diwali season gives e-retailers like Amazon and Flipkart a significant boost.

Online festive sales in India generate USD 3 billion in GMV | KrASIA

Online festive sales in India generate USD 3 billion in GMV

India's new FDI rules for e-commerce companies might have to do with the fall in investment.

Amazon reduces its India investment by one-third | KrASIA

Amazon reduces its India investment by one-third

BigBasket

Grofers

Grocery Delivery

Grofers ended FY 2019 with USD 360 million in revenues.

How SoftBank-backed Grofers is preparing to take on India's online grocery market | KrASIA

How SoftBank-backed Grofers is preparing to take on India&#8217;s online grocery market

Samsung

Over 42.6 million handsets have been shipped to India in the last two months to cater to the demand.

Amazon

India to look closer at discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart during festive season

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Amazon launches its Global Selling program in Vietnam

Amazon India’s biggest seller Cloudtail reports profitability in FY 2019

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off

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Amazon reduces its India investment by one-third

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Online mobile sales skyrocket during festive season in India

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