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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more

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

China Tech

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

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

The Chinese tech company is spending billions, snapping up talent in its battle against the US crackdown.

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai | KrASIA

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&#038;D center in Shanghai

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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.

Bytedance

Douyin

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

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

E-Commerce

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Retail

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

Ride-hailing

Commerce

E-commerce

quick commerce

Meituan Shangou, its quick commerce business, could play a significant role in its strategy to counter competition from main rival Douyin.

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business | KrASIA

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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

KrASIA | Tencent Archives

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

Alibaba

The business of online marketing is ultimately all about traffic.

China's internet giants diversify revenue streams amidst ad market crunch | KrASIA

China&#8217;s internet giants diversify revenue streams amidst ad market crunch

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Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

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

Social Impact

New regulations aim to improve gig workers’ pay and labor conditions. New regulations aim to improve gig workers’ pay and labor conditions.

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there's still a long way to go | KrASIA

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there&#8217;s still a long way to go

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Content

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

Wechat unblocks more links to rival apps and websites. It will soon allow users to share listings of goods on e-commerce sites run by other companies.

WeChat unblocks more links to rival apps and websites | KrASIA

WeChat unblocks more links to rival apps and websites

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Chinese regulator halts updates of Tencent’s apps for data protection inspections. This comes after China implemented stringent personal information laws.

Tencent app updates halted by regulator for data protection inspections | KrASIA

Tencent app updates halted by regulator for data protection inspections

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Game over? China hits developers with regulatory triple threat. License freeze, child gaming limits, and compliant app stores cloud industry.

Game over? China hits developers with regulatory triple threat | KrASIA

Game over? China hits developers with regulatory triple threat

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Metaverse

China’s most valuable company Tencent sees slower growth in profits. Regulatory changes are weighing down revenues for all major tech firms in China.

China’s most valuable company Tencent sees slower growth in profits | KrASIA

China’s most valuable company Tencent sees slower growth in profits

Music

Tencent Music Entertainment misses revenue estimates as users move to other platforms. TME lost a key advantage when it scrapped exclusive licensing.

Tencent Music Entertainment misses revenue estimates as users move to competing platforms | KrASIA

Tencent Music Entertainment misses revenue estimates as users move to competing platforms

Tencent reveals new chips as China’s tech giants become semiconductor designers. The roadmap to mass production remains unclear.

Tencent reveals new chips as China’s tech giants become semiconductor designers | KrASIA

Tencent reveals new chips as China’s tech giants become semiconductor designers

Tencent to acquire stake in Japanese media publisher Kadokawa to boost global presence. The deal marks the largest investment Tencent has made in Japan.

Tencent

China’s internet giants diversify revenue streams amidst ad market crunch

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there’s still a long way to go