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

Deals in brief: Brainfish and Jejakin secure fresh funding, Ai Palette extends Series A1 round, six China deals, and more | KrASIA

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China Tech

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

Xiaomi

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Mobility

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

Transportation

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xiaomi

The smartphone maker hopes to turn the 'Apple Car' idea into reality.

China's Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto

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The Chinese automaker is banking on the new brand to change its fortunes in the NEV market.

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end | KrASIA

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end

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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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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TikTok

In an internal letter, founder Zhang Yiming emphasized that ByteDance will stay the course.

Zhang Yiming says ByteDance's goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged | KrASIA

Zhang Yiming says ByteDance&#8217;s goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged

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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

In a statement on Sunday, ByteDance also accuses Facebook of plagiarism and smears.

CHINA BRIEF | Microsoft moves ahead with TikTok purchase as Trump grants 45-day deadline | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Microsoft moves ahead with TikTok purchase as Trump grants 45-day deadline

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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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.

Xiaoice boasts 660 million global users and a reach of 450 million smart devices.

Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot to become its own company in China | KrASIA

Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot to become its own company in China

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

Alibaba

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.

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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

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. 

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

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Nreal brings VR, AR, and XR technologies to the mass market.

Augmented reality glasses, not a sci-fi thing anymore: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Augmented reality glasses, not a sci-fi thing anymore: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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. 

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

E-Commerce

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

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

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36Kr Chuhai and KrASIA successfully organized Globiz, a webinar aimed at shedding light on doing business in Southeast Asia.

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap | KrASIA

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap

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. 

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Jio Platforms has divested a 22.3% stake for over USD 13.7 billion, from nine high profile investors.

US-based PE firms TPG and L Catterton become latest investors in Reliance's Jio Platforms (Update) | KrASIA

US-based PE firms TPG and L Catterton become latest investors in Reliance&#8217;s Jio Platforms (Update)

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Paytm was valued at USD 16 billion last year when the US-based asset manager T Rowe Price—as a new investor—poured USD 150 million into the Noida-based company.

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment | KrASIA

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment

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

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

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Social Impact

The Chinese super app joins other tech giants looking to develop new software to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

WeChat to participate in COVID-19 hackathon in support of WHO | KrASIA

WeChat to participate in COVID-19 hackathon in support of WHO

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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

Edtech and medtech have reached maturity and will change how we operate.

Microsoft

Zhang Yiming says ByteDance’s goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged

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Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot to become its own company in China

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Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap

US-based PE firms TPG and L Catterton become latest investors in Reliance’s Jio Platforms (Update)

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment

WeChat to participate in COVID-19 hackathon in support of WHO

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