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

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud

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

China Tech

Vietnam

The Chinese tech group is renting server space from state-owned partners in the meantime.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law | KrASIA

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Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law

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

KrASIA

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

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

Tiktok

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.

Content

Creative

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

Video

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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Jeff Chay

Photo of Victor Lysenko, founder and CEO of Osome.

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

Cambodia

India

Singapore

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

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

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

KrASIA | Xiaomi Archives

Sales of Lei Jun's first livestreaming show: USD 29 million

Live Streaming

Visual Stories

Over 74 million people tuned in to his maiden show on Douyin.

KEY STAT | Xiaomi CEO becomes latest Chinese internet heavyweight to tout business through livestreaming | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Xiaomi CEO becomes latest Chinese internet heavyweight to tout business through livestreaming

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Julianna Wu

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

They are expected to look and feel just like ordinary glasses in the future.

The world's first temperature-reading AR glasses maker looks for ways to reach consumers: Inside China’s Startups | KrASIA

The world&#8217;s first temperature-reading AR glasses maker looks for ways to reach consumers: Inside China’s Startups

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Song Jingli

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

Flipkart

Samsung

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

E-Commerce

Smartphones

Amazon’s smartphone market share was driven by Xiaomi, Samsung, and OnePlus.

Amazon trumps Flipkart in online sales of smartphones in Q2 2020 | KrASIA

Amazon trumps Flipkart in online sales of smartphones in Q2 2020

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

After reflecting on Xiaomi's rise since 2010, the company faces daunting challenges going forward.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun pledges RMB 10 billion in R&D this year at company's 10th anniversary event | KrASIA

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun pledges RMB 10 billion in R&#038;D this year at company&#8217;s 10th anniversary event

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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Wency Chen

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

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Xiaomi marched into the chip development field in 2014 but has yet to deliver solid results.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says Mix Alpha phone nixed, in-house chip development faces 'difficulties' | KrASIA

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says Mix Alpha phone nixed, in-house chip development faces &#8216;difficulties&#8217;

Xiaomi continued to be the number one player, with about 29% market share, followed by Samsung and Vivo.

Indian smartphone market set to recover in second half of the year | KrASIA

Indian smartphone market set to recover in second half of the year

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

India banned 47 more Chinese apps including Xiaomi's Mi Browser Pro and Baidu Search.

Indian government's ban on Xiaomi's apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy | KrASIA

Indian government&#8217;s ban on Xiaomi&#8217;s apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

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

Chinese fintech firms have identified the Indonesian market as an attractive expansion destination given its resemblance to the early days of China's fintech revolution.

Serving the unbanked: China's influence on Indonesia's fintech development (Part 1 of 2) | KrASIA

Serving the unbanked: China&#8217;s influence on Indonesia&#8217;s fintech development (Part 1 of 2)

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Khamila Mulia

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

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

Transportation

The move follows EV maker Li Auto's strong Nasdaq debut.

Xiaomi

KEY STAT | Xiaomi CEO becomes latest Chinese internet heavyweight to tout business through livestreaming

The world’s first temperature-reading AR glasses maker looks for ways to reach consumers: Inside China’s Startups

Amazon trumps Flipkart in online sales of smartphones in Q2 2020

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun pledges RMB 10 billion in R&D this year at company’s 10th anniversary event

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says Mix Alpha phone nixed, in-house chip development faces ‘difficulties’

Indian smartphone market set to recover in second half of the year

Indian government’s ban on Xiaomi’s apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy

Serving the unbanked: China’s influence on Indonesia’s fintech development (Part 1 of 2)

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