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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

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.

Meituan

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

E-Commerce

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Retail

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

Ride-hailing

Commerce

E-commerce

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

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

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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India

MENA

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Toku to acquire AiChat, Strativity Group bought by UST, ADQ and OIA launch new fund to stimulate MENA tech innovation, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Toku to acquire AiChat, Strativity Group bought by UST, ADQ and OIA launch new fund to stimulate MENA tech innovation, and more

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Jeff Chay

New Zealand

The recent delegation visit underscores China's openness to collaborate more closely with "friend and partner" New Zealand.

Chinese delegation bolsters bilateral trade and cooperation in recent visit to New Zealand | KrASIA

Chinese delegation bolsters bilateral trade and cooperation in recent visit to New Zealand

KrASIA | China Tech Archives

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

White Rhino’s autonomous delivery system gets tune-up with new investment. The company works with Yonghui Superstores and build new infrastructure.

White Rhino’s autonomous delivery system gets tune-up with new investment | KrASIA

White Rhino’s autonomous delivery system gets tune-up with new investment

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

Alibaba

Mobility

Alibaba’s map app AutoNavi evolves into open service platform to integrate dining, entertainment, and lifestyle services beyond its core mapping function.

Alibaba’s map app AutoNavi evolves into open service platform | KrASIA

Alibaba’s map app AutoNavi evolves into open service platform

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Newsletters

The Uptake Daily Digest | Is your data really yours?

Daily Digest | Is your data really yours? | KrASIA

Daily Digest | Is your data really yours?

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The Uptake

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

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

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

Content

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

Tencent and Alibaba’s truce brings sweeping consequences for ByteDance and Pinduoduo. China's e-commerce landscape is being reshaped completely.

Tencent and Alibaba’s truce brings sweeping consequences for ByteDance and Pinduoduo | KrASIA

Tencent and Alibaba’s truce brings sweeping consequences for ByteDance and Pinduoduo

Deep Tech

Robotics

Moying Robotics closes Series A for advanced logistics automation for high-precision tasks in sectors like biotech and semiconductor manufacturing.

Moying Robotics closes Series A for advanced logistics automation | KrASIA

Moying Robotics closes Series A for advanced logistics automation

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

Live Streaming

Tencent’s game streaming mega merger hit a regulatory wall, so who lost out?

Tencent’s game streaming mega merger hit a regulatory wall, so who lost out? | KrASIA

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AJ Cortese

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

Kuaishou

Creative

Kuaishou adds informative livestreamed content as growth in entertainment vertical slows. Topics include childcare, financial literacy, and legal matters.

Kuaishou adds informative livestreamed content as growth in entertainment vertical stalls | KrASIA

Kuaishou adds informative livestreamed content as growth in entertainment vertical stalls

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

Alibaba and Tencent weigh openings in ‘walled gardens’ to open services to each other. China’s internet sector has long been cleaved into two camps.

Alibaba and Tencent weigh openings in ‘walled gardens’ to make services accessible to each other, report says | KrASIA

Alibaba and Tencent weigh openings in ‘walled gardens’ to make services accessible to each other, report says

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Brady Ng

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