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

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

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

xiaomi

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

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

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

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

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

Chery

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

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

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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The decade-old "Oriental Leaf Tea" remained Nongfu Spring's driving force in 2023, spearheading the company's growth.

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash | KrASIA

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash

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.

KrASIA | Softbank Archives

Investors

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

Alibaba

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

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

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. 

Facebook

Flipkart

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

Paytm

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

Global giants like Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are keeping a close watch on Indian digital payments opportunity, which is very much untapped since half of the Indians are yet to come online.

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off | KrASIA

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off

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

Q&amp;A

Billionaire says his group's growth pales beside US and Chinese companies.

SoftBank's Son 'embarrassed' by track record as Asia rivals zoom by | KrASIA

SoftBank&#8217;s Son &#8217;embarrassed&#8217; by track record as Asia rivals zoom by

WeWork is an American company that provides shared workspaces for technology startup subculture communities, and services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups, small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 2010, it is headquartered in New York City.

WeWork

SoftBank had valued WeWork at USD 47 billion in January.

SoftBank Vision Fund chief rejects criticism over valuations | KrASIA

SoftBank Vision Fund chief rejects criticism over valuations

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

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

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

On-Demand Services

Grab's CEO, Grab Indonesia's president, and Tokopedia’s CEO also attended the meeting

SoftBank to invest USD 2 billion in Indonesia following discussions with President Widodo | KrASIA

SoftBank to invest USD 2 billion in Indonesia following discussions with President Widodo

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Khamila Mulia

Investors include Apple, Microsoft, and Japan's top three national banks.

SoftBank launches USD 108 billion second fund to invest in AI | KrASIA

SoftBank launches USD 108 billion second fund to invest in AI

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Zhixin Tan

Stake in Chinese tech giant won't stop generating cash.

SoftBank's magic lamp keeps sending the Alibaba genie | KrASIA

SoftBank&#8217;s magic lamp keeps sending the Alibaba genie

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.

Frost & Sullivan predicts sales related to cloud robotics to reach USD 103 billion by 2023.

SoftBank-backed Chinese robot producer CloudMinds files for USD 500 million IPO | KrASIA

SoftBank-backed Chinese robot producer CloudMinds files for USD 500 million IPO

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Song Jingli

Softbank has made various notable investments into Indonesian tech startups

SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son to meet Indonesian President in August | KrASIA

SoftBank&#8217;s CEO Masayoshi Son to meet Indonesian President in August

Artificial intelligence

SoftBank Group

SoftBank Ventures Asia

Softbank Ventures Korea

SoftBank Ventures Asia's focused on AI in Asia comes as AI investments in the region are expected to continue to rise.

SoftBank Group's early venture arm rebrands, to focus on AI startups in Asia | KrASIA

SoftBank Group&#8217;s early venture arm rebrands, to focus on AI startups in Asia

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Softbank

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off

SoftBank’s Son ’embarrassed’ by track record as Asia rivals zoom by

SoftBank Vision Fund chief rejects criticism over valuations

SoftBank to invest USD 2 billion in Indonesia following discussions with President Widodo

SoftBank launches USD 108 billion second fund to invest in AI

SoftBank’s magic lamp keeps sending the Alibaba genie

SoftBank-backed Chinese robot producer CloudMinds files for USD 500 million IPO

SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son to meet Indonesian President in August

SoftBank Group’s early venture arm rebrands, to focus on AI startups in Asia

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