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JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

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JD.com is entering China’s food delivery market, turning its logistics muscle into a platform for hot meals, groceries, and more.

JD.com sees financial surge in Q1, eyes food delivery as next big bet

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How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

Why do firms join forces? Investigate synergy goals, valuation methods, and negotiations driving corporate consolidation.

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What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

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What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

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Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Granite Asia leads investment in VFlowTech, Alterno and BrioHR raise funding, latest China deals, and more

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How is healthcare going digital? Investigate telemedicine, wearable sensors, and data-driven platforms improving patient experiences.

Health Tech

With real-time radar tracking and predictive AI, Tsingray lets families care from afar without wearables, cameras, or compromise.

How radar sensors—and a son’s worry—sparked a smarter eldercare system

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How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

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Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

How does information move at light speed? Review 5G rollouts, fiber networks, and connectivity standards advancing global communication.

Telecommunications

The Chinese government hopes companies can develop homegrown core technologies.

Alibaba's Pingtouge launches own processor, aiming to be a chip infrastructure provider for AI and IoT

Alibaba&#8217;s Pingtouge launches own processor, aiming to be a chip infrastructure provider for AI and IoT

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Song Jingli

It has delivered more than 150 autonomous vehicles to clients like Huawei and JD.com.

Chinese startup Neolix Technologies will provide self-driving delivery vans to Middle Eastern e-commerce company Noon

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

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How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

AutoX wants to beat its peers Waymo and Zoox in bringing this to the market.

A Chinese founder is determined to bring the first self-driving taxi service to Silicon Valley

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Viktoria Fricova

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

While Tencent is chasing domestic carmakers, its major competitor Alibaba holds out olive branches to foreign auto giants.

Tencent forms strategic partnership with carmaker Dongfeng Motor

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Luna Lin

It has ten cameras and can detect objects 700 feet away.

Baidu rolls out affordable, camera-based sensor system for autonomous driving

Huawei, a global telecom and smartphone vendor, delivers networking equipment, 5G solutions, and consumer devices integrating cutting-edge tech.

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The company says its self-driving vehicle development is progressing despite its ban from doing business with US companies.

Huawei eyes self-driving cars across China and Europe by 2022

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Lao Bei

Autonomous Driving

Logistics

NeoLix

The company says Huawei and JD are among its clients.

Chinese startup Neolix Technologies starts to mass-produce self-driving delivery vans in Changzhou

Opinion

It has in-house "vehicle-to-everything" technologies.

Alibaba buys into autonomous driving tech provider China TransInfo at USD 520 million

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Volkwagen

The automaker wants to stay relevant in China's mobility market.