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

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

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

JD.com

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

Apart from selling its own cars, JD aims to handle every aspect of the automotive business.

What is JD's blueprint for entering the new energy vehicle industry? | KrASIA

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What is JD&#8217;s blueprint for entering the new energy vehicle industry?

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Climate

Deep Tech

Energy

China is tapping into emerging markets for its solar exports amid trade tensions with the US and Europe.

China’s solar surplus creates opportunities for emerging green markets | KrASIA

China’s solar surplus creates opportunities for emerging green markets

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Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

climate change

sustainability

In Malaysia, a weak currency is squeezing financing for decarbonization efforts.

Greenflation causes Indonesia and Vietnam to backtrack on renewables | KrASIA

Greenflation causes Indonesia and Vietnam to backtrack on renewables

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Nikkei Asia

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others.

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Investors

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

E-Commerce

FirstCry will use the money to expand its physical presence and compete with e-tailers such as Amazon India and Flipkart.

SoftBank invests USD 300 million in baby care company FirstCry | KrASIA

SoftBank invests USD 300 million in baby care company FirstCry

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Avanish Tiwary

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

Last month, the company gave pink slips to a total of 1800 employees in India and China.

SoftBank-backed Oyo continues giving pink slips: Over 350 people lost jobs in the US | KrASIA

SoftBank-backed Oyo continues giving pink slips: Over 350 people lost jobs in the US

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

It roped in former Google India interim head Vikas Agnihotri as its first operating partner in the country.

SoftBank makes second hire in India in one month, appoints India head to ante up bets in the country | KrASIA

SoftBank makes second hire in India in one month, appoints India head to ante up bets in the country

The construction of the new capital will start later this year.

Softbank offers to invest USD 40 billion in Indonesia's new capital | KrASIA

Softbank offers to invest USD 40 billion in Indonesia&#8217;s new capital

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Khamila Mulia

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

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.

SoftBank Group to discuss contributing capital to develop smart cities in .

SoftBank and Grab in talks with Indonesian government on potential investment in new capital city | KrASIA

SoftBank and Grab in talks with Indonesian government on potential investment in new capital city

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Cindy Silviana

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. 

Ant Group

Paytm

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

It raised USD 1 billion late last year at a valuation of USD 16 billion.

Paytm not looking to go public anytime soon | KrASIA

Paytm not looking to go public anytime soon

The power bank sharing sector has regained momentum in 2019.

Exclusive | Chinese power bank rental platform Energy Monster raises SoftBank-led USD 71 million Series C | KrASIA

Exclusive | Chinese power bank rental platform Energy Monster raises SoftBank-led USD 71 million Series C

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Sun Henan

This is SoftBank Vision Fund II's maiden investment in India.

Lenskart becomes 25th Indian unicorn with fresh investment from SoftBank | KrASIA

Lenskart becomes 25th Indian unicorn with fresh investment from SoftBank

Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital held about 13% and 11% stake, respectively in Oyo.