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Despite headwinds, 20% of listed companies reach new heights in first-half earnings.

From Hello Kitty to missiles, fifth of Japan firms reap record profits | KrASIA

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From Hello Kitty to missiles, fifth of Japan firms reap record profits

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

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Nikkei Asia

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

China Tech

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

Dubbed the “Nvidia of China,” Moore Threads is set to become a bellwether of China’s semiconductor sector.

Moore Threads moves toward IPO as China’s GPU ambitions take shape | KrASIA

Moore Threads moves toward IPO as China’s GPU ambitions take shape

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Xpeng

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Strong sales of the Mona M03 and P7+ highlight Xpeng’s growing momentum in the EV market.

Xpeng hits its stride with Q3 financial and EV production breakthroughs | KrASIA

Xpeng hits its stride with Q3 financial and EV production breakthroughs

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

KrASIA | JD Archives

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

Alibaba

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

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

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

E-Commerce

The Double Five shopping festival is part of measures to boost consumer spending, which has slowed during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Online push helps Shanghai shopping festival pull in USD 2.2 billion of sales in first 24 hours | KrASIA

Online push helps Shanghai shopping festival pull in USD 2.2 billion of sales in first 24 hours

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SCMP

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Alibaba Cloud

cloud computing

cloud services

Cloud services are set to boom as e-commerce props up SMEs amid post-COVID-19 economic recovery.

Asia's post-virus economic revival to be built on the back of Chinese cloud services | KrASIA

Asia&#8217;s post-virus economic revival to be built on the back of Chinese cloud services

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AJ Cortese

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.

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

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

Transportation

Neolix develops autonomous transportation solutions for a variety of uses, from parcel delivery to mobile vending machines, and expects to break even in 2020.

Meet the company behind China's self-driving vending machines: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Meet the company behind China&#8217;s self-driving vending machines: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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Song Jingli

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

Visual Stories

The VC/PE firm that backed Tencent and JD.com is reloading USD 13 billion for future investments.

KEY STAT | Hillhouse Capital building one of Asia's biggest PE pool with USD 13 billion raise | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Hillhouse Capital building one of Asia&#8217;s biggest PE pool with USD 13 billion raise

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Julianna Wu

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

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

Chinese vendors sold a total of 73.2 million smartphones, down by 22% YoY due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHINA BRIEF| Huawei sells 28.7 million smartphones in Q1 in China, up 6% amid industry downturn | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF| Huawei sells 28.7 million smartphones in Q1 in China, up 6% amid industry downturn

With JD Cloud & AI as partner, Cloudflare plans to establish 150 new data centers in mainland China.

JD.com, US firm Cloudflare join forces to challenge Alibaba in China’s vast cloud market | KrASIA

JD.com, US firm Cloudflare join forces to challenge Alibaba in China’s vast cloud market

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South China Morning Post

A lack of investor confidence in US-listed Chinese companies may push more firms to consider returning to domestic exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

KEY STAT | JD.com plans for secondary listing in Hong Kong as US-listed Chinese stocks face increased scrutiny | KrASIA

KEY STAT | JD.com plans for secondary listing in Hong Kong as US-listed Chinese stocks face increased scrutiny

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

On-Demand Services

However, Yonghui Superstores' stock dived more than 6% following the announcement.

CHINA BRIEF | Supermarket chain backed by Tencent and JD.com reports nearly 40% increase in Q1 net profits | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Supermarket chain backed by Tencent and JD.com reports nearly 40% increase in Q1 net profits

Beijing-headquartered company aims to raise USD 2 billion in Hong Kong listing.

JD

Online push helps Shanghai shopping festival pull in USD 2.2 billion of sales in first 24 hours

Asia’s post-virus economic revival to be built on the back of Chinese cloud services

Meet the company behind China’s self-driving vending machines: Inside China’s Startups

KEY STAT | Hillhouse Capital building one of Asia’s biggest PE pool with USD 13 billion raise

CHINA BRIEF| Huawei sells 28.7 million smartphones in Q1 in China, up 6% amid industry downturn

JD.com, US firm Cloudflare join forces to challenge Alibaba in China’s vast cloud market

KEY STAT | JD.com plans for secondary listing in Hong Kong as US-listed Chinese stocks face increased scrutiny

CHINA BRIEF | Supermarket chain backed by Tencent and JD.com reports nearly 40% increase in Q1 net profits

Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com files for secondary listing in Hong Kong, sources say

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