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Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

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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: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more

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

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Marvin Goh

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

China's foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught | KrASIA

China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

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

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

Alibaba

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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.

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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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

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Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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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The coronavirus is prompting facial recognition companies to develop solutions for those with partially covered faces.

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Wearing a mask won’t stop facial recognition anymore

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

Didi

Drivers who fail to wear masks will be warned and even suspended from their shifts.

Didi uses AI facial recognition to ensure its drivers wear masks | KrASIA

Didi uses AI facial recognition to ensure its drivers wear masks

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Sun Henan

The fresh cash will be utilized for international expansion and product development.

Indonesian firm Eureka AI raises USD 20 million in Series B round | KrASIA

Indonesian firm Eureka AI raises USD 20 million in Series B round

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Ursula Florene

The system can complete the recognition process within 20 seconds.

Alibaba says its AI-powered algorithm can identify coronavirus infections with 96% accuracy | KrASIA

Alibaba says its AI-powered algorithm can identify coronavirus infections with 96% accuracy

Insilico Medicine says pharmaceutical firms can use its AI-created compounds that are designed to work on a key “target” of the coronavirus.

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Can AI speed up a cure for coronavirus? This Hong Kong startup opens its resources to global drug firms for free

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

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.

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The SARS-CoV-2 virus has impacted every aspect of daily life in China.

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Video | Five technologies fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus

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James Chan

The firm launched a USD 800 million fund in January to develop AI globally.

AI ecosystem builder Skymind Global Ventures expands into Southeast Asia | KrASIA

AI ecosystem builder Skymind Global Ventures expands into Southeast Asia

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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.

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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. 

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The firm has made it a priority to deliver medical supplies.

JD.com uses L4 autonomous driving solutions to deliver goods in locked-down Wuhan | KrASIA

JD.com uses L4 autonomous driving solutions to deliver goods in locked-down Wuhan

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Song Jingli

Megvii and Baidu have rolled out advanced temperature screening systems in major Beijing railway stations.

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Didi uses AI facial recognition to ensure its drivers wear masks

Indonesian firm Eureka AI raises USD 20 million in Series B round

Alibaba says its AI-powered algorithm can identify coronavirus infections with 96% accuracy

Can AI speed up a cure for coronavirus? This Hong Kong startup opens its resources to global drug firms for free

Video | Five technologies fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus

AI ecosystem builder Skymind Global Ventures expands into Southeast Asia

JD.com uses L4 autonomous driving solutions to deliver goods in locked-down Wuhan

AI firms deploy fever detection systems in Beijing to limit coronavirus outbreak

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