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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more

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

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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.

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The Chinese tech company is spending billions, snapping up talent in its battle against the US crackdown.

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai | KrASIA

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&#038;D center in Shanghai

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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.

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

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Meituan Shangou, its quick commerce business, could play a significant role in its strategy to counter competition from main rival Douyin.

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business | KrASIA

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business

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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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TuSimple will start commercializing its autonomous driving technologies; it is already providing transportation services for companies like UPS and US Postal Service.

CHINA BRIEF | TuSimple partners with Navistar to sell self-driving trucks in North America | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | TuSimple partners with Navistar to sell self-driving trucks in North America

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5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Electric Vehicles

Huawei has been leveraging its 5G expertise to develop autonomous driving technology.

BYD’s new 5G-equipped electric car runs on the Huawei HarmonyOS car platform | KrASIA

BYD’s new 5G-equipped electric car runs on the Huawei HarmonyOS car platform

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

Transportation

The company has delivered 10,473 electric SUVs by the end of June since last November.

CHINA BRIEF | EV maker Lixiang files for US IPO after closing USD 550 million Series D | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | EV maker Lixiang files for US IPO after closing USD 550 million Series D

The tests, in which cars do not have safety operators, make WeRide the second company in the world to run fully driverless vehicles.

WeRide starts testing driverless autonomous vehicles in Guangzhou | KrASIA

WeRide starts testing driverless autonomous vehicles in Guangzhou

Jack Ma appears on stage as a hologram at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 9. Courtesy of WAIC via South China Morning Post.

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

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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.

Ma explained how Chinese technicians developed a machine powered by algorithms during the pandemic that was 60 times more efficient than a human doctor.

Jack Ma encourages more AI cooperation as Elon Musk says Tesla is close to L5 autonomous driving | KrASIA

Jack Ma encourages more AI cooperation as Elon Musk says Tesla is close to L5 autonomous driving

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Challenges to TuSimple’s autonomous trucking network include both regulatory and technical obstacles.

TuSimple appears ready for a nationwide autonomous freight network with its partner UPS, but challenges remain | KrASIA

TuSimple appears ready for a nationwide autonomous freight network with its partner UPS, but challenges remain

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Robotics

China's largest food delivery company invested more than USD 14 million into the robot manufacturer.

Meituan raises bet on autonomous robots with investment in PuduTech | KrASIA

Meituan raises bet on autonomous robots with investment in PuduTech

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

Startup eyes data-sharing tie-ups to scrap 'safety drivers' by 2024.

Tencent-backed Momenta begins robotaxi trials this fall | KrASIA

Tencent-backed Momenta begins robotaxi trials this fall

The new JV, called Wibot, hopes to bring autonomous street-cleaning vehicles to the US and Europe.