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China Tech

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

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

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

KrASIA

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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Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

climate change

sustainability

In Malaysia, a weak currency is squeezing financing for decarbonization efforts.

Greenflation causes Indonesia and Vietnam to backtrack on renewables | KrASIA

Greenflation causes Indonesia and Vietnam to backtrack on renewables

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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

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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Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

Entertainment

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

video streaming

It's an effort to shield youngsters from social media addiction and harmful content.

China rolls out child protection features on all major short-video sharing and video streaming platforms | KrASIA

China rolls out child protection features on all major short-video sharing and video streaming platforms

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Luna Lin

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

Smartphone

It bought some patents of smartphone maker Smartisan earlier this year.

ByteDance plans to launch a smartphone for children | KrASIA

ByteDance plans to launch a smartphone for children

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Song Jingli

Feiliao

Jinri Toutiao

TikTok

The company has reportedly secured deals with two big Indian music labels.

ByteDance to launch paid music service in emerging markets, challenging Spotify and Apple Music | KrASIA

ByteDance to launch paid music service in emerging markets, challenging Spotify and Apple Music

Wechat

It's its second horse in the race to challenge WeChat. Tencent might hit back.

ByteDance launches new social app to challenge WeChat | KrASIA

ByteDance launches new social app to challenge WeChat

The viral short video app is on a winning streak.

TikTok is the most downloaded app on the App Store for five consecutive quarters | KrASIA

TikTok is the most downloaded app on the App Store for five consecutive quarters

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

facebook

India

Tik Tok

The short video app had 188 million downloads in Q1 2019, slightly ahead of Facebook.

TikTok pips Facebook in India and becomes world’s most downloaded social app in Q1 2019 | KrASIA

TikTok pips Facebook in India and becomes world’s most downloaded social app in Q1 2019

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Lao Bei

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

E-Commerce

Douyin

Douyin’s strengths in short video virality, along with the network of internet stars on its platform, could put it in an enviable position to capitalize on influencers and social e-commerce.

Douyin set to add “Products” category to its search bar | KrASIA

Douyin set to add “Products” category to its search bar

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

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

Didi

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

Startups

unicorns

Sequoia Capital is the most successful unicorn breeder

China now has 202 unicorns, says report | KrASIA

China now has 202 unicorns, says report

The United States alone accounted for about two-thirds of TikTok's global revenue.