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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.

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

Deals in brief: Pi-xcels raises USD 2.7 million, Vynn Capital backs MediSun Energy, Gobi Partners teams up with Cross Capital, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Pi-xcels raises USD 2.7 million, Vynn Capital backs MediSun Energy, Gobi Partners teams up with Cross Capital, and more

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Creative

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

Nintendo’s new Pokemon mobile game blends nostalgia with a tried-and-true format, but its long-term success is far from guaranteed.

Pokemon TCG Pocket starts strong, but can Nintendo keep the cards in play? | KrASIA

Pokemon TCG Pocket starts strong, but can Nintendo keep the cards in play?

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

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Mobility

Huawei is gearing up to launch at least ten new vehicle models next year, targeting the high-end automotive market.

Aito M8 to headline Huawei’s 2025 automotive lineup | KrASIA

Aito M8 to headline Huawei’s 2025 automotive lineup

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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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

Tencent aims to compete with Zoom in the booming workplace collaboration sector as quarantine measures take hold globally.

Tencent looks to overseas videoconferencing market with new VooV Meeting app | KrASIA

Tencent looks to overseas videoconferencing market with new VooV Meeting app

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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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. 

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Despite record earnings, the ubiquitous giant faced a series of challenges in 2019 and began testing a new corporate strategy.

TECH PANORAMA | Tencent's 2019: midlife crisis, short video pain, and a strategic pivot | KrASIA

TECH PANORAMA | Tencent&#8217;s 2019: midlife crisis, short video pain, and a strategic pivot

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Julianna Wu

WeChat has redefined what a social network can be. Photo by Jeffrey Towson.

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.

Apple

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

Along with dark mode, WeChat has also rolled out several new functions.

WeChat goes dark in latest release for iOS | KrASIA

WeChat goes dark in latest release for iOS

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

Alibaba

China’s cloud infrastructure market grew 66.9% to USD 3.3 billion in the fourth quarter of last year.

Tencent, Baidu gain ground on Alibaba as China’s cloud market expands at rapid pace | KrASIA

Tencent, Baidu gain ground on Alibaba as China’s cloud market expands at rapid pace

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The New Delhi-based startup will bring PUBG Mobile tournaments on its platform in ten regional languages.

Indian gaming startup WinZO ties up with Tencent to conduct PUBG Mobile tournament | KrASIA

Indian gaming startup WinZO ties up with Tencent to conduct PUBG Mobile tournament

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

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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

Revenues from online entertainment and office collaboration saw a boost while the giant's fintech business declined.

Tencent Q4 revenue up 25%, but coronavirus expected to impact next quarter | KrASIA

Tencent Q4 revenue up 25%, but coronavirus expected to impact next quarter

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

Enterprise Services

WeChat Work telecommuting app sees 15% gain in new users.

Tencent ramps up hiring to meet stay-at-home demand | KrASIA

Tencent ramps up hiring to meet stay-at-home demand

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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

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

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

The firm also announced an expected slowdown in revenue for the first half of 2020 due to coronavirus.

Tencent Music Entertainment sees profits grow as paying users rise | KrASIA

Tencent Music Entertainment sees profits grow as paying users rise

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

E-Commerce

Tencent is seeking apologies and USD 143,000 from each defendant.