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

Alibaba

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

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

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

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Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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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

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Singapore

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

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more

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Japan

The industry is aiming to start mutual use of QR code payment systems in Southeast Asia and India by Expo 2025 Osaka.

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code | KrASIA

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

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Nikkei Asia

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

KrASIA | SEA Tech Archives

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

China Tech

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

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The Uptake Daily Digest | Reading the wind (and floods and fires).

Daily Digest | Reading the wind (and floods and fires) | KrASIA

Daily Digest | Reading the wind (and floods and fires)

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Japan, Korea, and the West

Highlights from SOSV’s 8x8 Fall 2021 Speaker Series. Mentors shared lessons, while the new Chinaccelerator cohort was revealed.

Highlights from SOSV’s 8x8 Fall 2021 Speaker Series | KrASIA

Highlights from SOSV’s 8&#215;8 Fall 2021 Speaker Series

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Indonesia

Grab will own 90% of Ovo after acquiring stakes from Tokopedia and Lippo Group, report says. Ovo was seen as the most complex part in the GoTo merger.

Grab will own 90% of Ovo after acquiring stakes from Tokopedia and Lippo Group, report says | KrASIA

Grab will own 90% of Ovo after acquiring stakes from Tokopedia and Lippo Group, report says

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Khamila Mulia

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

E-Commerce

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

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

On-Demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

Malaysia

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Thailand

Vietnam

5 key takeaways from Grab and Bain's report on Southeast Asia's platform economy. Around 115 million regional internet users use more than 3 O2O platforms.

5 key takeaways from Grab and Bain's report on Southeast Asia's platform economy | KrASIA

5 key takeaways from Grab and Bain&#8217;s report on Southeast Asia&#8217;s platform economy

Retail

B2B e-commerce platform Ula lands USD 87 million from Amazon's Jeff Bezos and others. Ula is active in tier-2 and tier-3 Indonesian cities.

B2B e-commerce platform Ula lands USD 87 million from Amazon's Jeff Bezos and others | KrASIA

B2B e-commerce platform Ula lands USD 87 million from Amazon&#8217;s Jeff Bezos and others

The Uptake Daily Digest | The COVID payment app. How many multifunctional apps do we need?

Daily Digest | The COVID payment app | KrASIA

Daily Digest | The COVID payment app

Twitter

Content

Social Impact

Data from Twitter provides new ways to mitigate disasters and generate insights about climate crises.

Data from Twitter provides new ways to mitigate disasters and generate insights about climate crises | KrASIA

Data from Twitter provides new ways to mitigate disasters and generate insights about climate crises

Cryptocurrencies

Singapore kicks off new crypto era by granting licenses to DBSV and Independent Reserve.

Singapore kicks off new crypto era by granting licenses to DBSV and Independent Reserve | KrASIA

Singapore kicks off new crypto era by granting licenses to DBSV and Independent Reserve

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Stephanie Li

Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator announces finalists for Indonesia Demo Day.

Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator announces finalists for Indonesia Demo Day | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator announces finalists for Indonesia Demo Day

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