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Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

Temasek

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

India

Philippines

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more

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

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Marvin Goh

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

China's foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught | KrASIA

China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

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

Alibaba

Taobao

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

Tmall

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.

Wechat

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.

Fintech

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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

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&#8217;s core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

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China Tech

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

The losses are mainly in the US and India, while Southeast Asian countries continue to bring growth.

TikTok reports first-ever overall decrease in downloads | KrASIA

TikTok reports first-ever overall decrease in downloads

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Song Jingli

Is TikTok about to host original, exclusive tracks?

TikTok owner ByteDance acquires Jukedeck and its AI-powered music composer | KrASIA

TikTok owner ByteDance acquires Jukedeck and its AI-powered music composer

It announced this on the website of one of its apps.

ByteDance to set up data center in India amid government concerns over data storage | KrASIA

ByteDance to set up data center in India amid government concerns over data storage

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Luna Lin

The Chinese company has recently received a long list of questions from the Indian government.

ByteDance faces fresh trouble in India | KrASIA

ByteDance faces fresh trouble in India

Three upgrades to highlight its mini-app platforms

News aggregator Jinri Toutiao tweaks its interface to prioritize mini programs | KrASIA

News aggregator Jinri Toutiao tweaks its interface to prioritize mini programs

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Lao Bei

The reason for its vanishing is still unknown.

Feiliao, ByteDance's second social app to challenge WeChat, gets removed from Apple's App Store | KrASIA

Feiliao, ByteDance&#8217;s second social app to challenge WeChat, gets removed from Apple&#8217;s App Store

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Now its investment in this specific sector goes beyond borders.

ByteDance leads USD 57 million Series C round for US edtech startup Minerva | KrASIA

ByteDance leads USD 57 million Series C round for US edtech startup Minerva

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

Entertainment

ByteDance says it now has 1.5 billion monthly active users | KrASIA

ByteDance says it now has 1.5 billion monthly active users

It's the company's eighth education-focused app.