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Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more

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

China Tech

Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep

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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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

Japan, Korea, and the West

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.

Deep Tech

Artificial intelligence

To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools | KrASIA

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

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

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

The Chinese startup is collecting more than USD 1 billion in a pre-IPO round which targets a USD 25 billion valuation.

Kuaishou seeks US IPO in 2020 as it gears up for overseas expansion | KrASIA

Kuaishou seeks US IPO in 2020 as it gears up for overseas expansion

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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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

The tool could bring extra revenues to the Chinese internet giant.

Tencent incubates new credit payment product to take on Ant Financial's Huabei | KrASIA

Tencent incubates new credit payment product to take on Ant Financial&#8217;s Huabei

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Song Jingli

Its clients include H&amp;M, Walmart, Amazon, Hugo Boss, Armani. and Calvin Klein.

Tencent and Sequoia lead Smart Fabric's USD 100 million Series C | KrASIA

Tencent and Sequoia lead Smart Fabric&#8217;s USD 100 million Series C

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

E-Commerce

Tech giants are increasing their presence in the Chinese second-hand trading market.

Tencent sets bigger bet on second-hand trading unicorn Zhuan Zhuan | KrASIA

Tencent sets bigger bet on second-hand trading unicorn Zhuan Zhuan

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

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

Entertainment

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

GoGames builds upon Gojek's previous entry into mobile gaming through its payments portal.

Gojek launches GoGames, bringing full ecosystem to Indonesia’s mobile game industry | KrASIA

Gojek launches GoGames, bringing full ecosystem to Indonesia’s mobile game industry

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

Transportation

Industry watchers say the move shows Tencent's confidence in the loss-making auto manufacturer.

Tencent places bigger bet on struggling EV maker Nio | KrASIA

Tencent places bigger bet on struggling EV maker Nio

The deal is in line with the social giant's To-B strategy.

Tencent pours USD 120 million into Xiaoshouyi in China’s largest CRM investment in history | KrASIA

Tencent pours USD 120 million into Xiaoshouyi in China’s largest CRM investment in history

The social and gaming giant is actually an earlier investor for this startup.

Tencent-backed Kuaishou invests in comic startup Crossingstar as China's manga scene grows | KrASIA

Tencent-backed Kuaishou invests in comic startup Crossingstar as China&#8217;s manga scene grows

Short video platforms are tapping into e-commerce.

Tencent

Kuaishou seeks US IPO in 2020 as it gears up for overseas expansion

Tencent incubates new credit payment product to take on Ant Financial’s Huabei

Tencent and Sequoia lead Smart Fabric’s USD 100 million Series C