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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more

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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

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Semiconductors

The Chinese tech company is spending billions, snapping up talent in its battle against the US crackdown.

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai | KrASIA

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&#038;D center in Shanghai

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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.

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Douyin

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

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

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An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

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Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

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quick commerce

Meituan Shangou, its quick commerce business, could play a significant role in its strategy to counter competition from main rival Douyin.

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business | KrASIA

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business

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

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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

BIGO

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Short video

TikTok

Chinese apps dominate Middle East short video and live streaming market | KrASIA

Chinese apps dominate Middle East short video and live streaming market

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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

Education

This formation links up with sentiments shared by the highest political office in the country.

Tencent Games leads new partnership to promote scientific education | KrASIA

Tencent Games leads new partnership to promote scientific education

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Tik Tok

ByteDance's Douyin app, which features 15-second videos and is known as TikTok outside of China, has started to allow a subset of users to share videos

Douyin tests long videos to win new users | KrASIA

Douyin tests long videos to win new users

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

online education

The company has been paving the way for this service in the past year.

ByteDance will reportedly launch a K–12 online education platform this summer | KrASIA

ByteDance will reportedly launch a K–12 online education platform this summer

game

ByteDance, currently considered the world's most valuable startup, has invested in another game publisher, a sign of its ambition in the gaming industry,

ByteDance invests in another game publisher | KrASIA

ByteDance invests in another game publisher

China's ByteDance grossed an estimated US$75 million in revenue through selling virtual currency on its TikTok and Douyin.

Douyin/TikTok makes $75m from live-broadcasting | KrASIA

Douyin/TikTok makes $75m from live-broadcasting

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

Kuaishou

Kuai

live video

Kwai Concept's goal is very transparent - to lure more users from first and second-tier cities.

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin's core users | KrASIA

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin&#8217;s core users

live viedo

ByteDance is making moves to amp up revenues from its live broadcasting businesses

ByteDance shifts attention to live broadcasting business with its new centralised platform | KrASIA

ByteDance shifts attention to live broadcasting business with its new centralised platform

Mini-programmes could bolster the company's profits.