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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: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more

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Deals in brief: Stupa scores INR 280 million in funding, Chainstack secures strategic investment, six China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Stupa scores INR 280 million in funding, Chainstack secures strategic investment, six China deals, and more

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

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NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

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Electric vehicle

The Onvo sub-brand expands Nio's electric vehicle lineup beyond its focus on premium consumers.

Nio launches the Onvo L60 SUV, throwing down gauntlet to Tesla’s Model Y | KrASIA

Nio launches the Onvo L60 SUV, throwing down gauntlet to Tesla’s Model Y

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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

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&#8217;s largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

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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.

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To take the subway in Jinan, all you need to do is get your face scanned | KrASIA

To take the subway in Jinan, all you need to do is get your face scanned

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Song Jingli

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.

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

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E-commerce

Not only does this move allow Tencent to step further into e-commerce, it also encourages additional usage of its e-wallet.

Tencent rolls out logistics interface for vendors on WeChat | KrASIA

Tencent rolls out logistics interface for vendors on WeChat

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

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The Chinese messaging service already has many of the features discussed by Zuckerberg.

Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier | KrASIA

Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier

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Will Tencent start a tsunami in live-streaming?

Tencent Live tests live-streaming in WeChat | KrASIA

Tencent Live tests live-streaming in WeChat

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Luna Lin

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

Alibaba

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

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Sending and receiving electric red envelopes posed the biggest pressure to the clearinghouse, followed by shopping and dining.

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival | KrASIA

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival

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

WeChat Pay

This move is designed to help WeChat close the gap between its 1.08 billion monthly active users and WeChat Pay's 900 million monthly active users.

WeChat Pay is now more convenient for senior citizens | KrASIA

WeChat Pay is now more convenient for senior citizens

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The Cyberspace Administration of China has ordered WeChat, Liaotianbao, Duoshan, and Matong to follow legal procedures when adding new functions or publishing new applications.

Major Chinese social media platforms ordered to conduct security evaluations | KrASIA

Major Chinese social media platforms ordered to conduct security evaluations

WeChat exposed partial ID information of 17 accounts to showcase different types of fraudsters, offering cheating information on micro-loans, friends making, stocks and part-time jobs.

WeChat bans more than 6,000 accounts for fraud | KrASIA

WeChat bans more than 6,000 accounts for fraud

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.

On Saturday, Tencent's WeChat said it "cleaned up" its social media platform, punishing a slew of apps that the company says failed to obey its code of conduct. Links to ByteDance's news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao were also scrubbed. The following day, ByteDance vice president Li Liang hit back by accusing China's most popular social media app of misusing its dominance.