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

China Tech

iFLYTEK

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.

Creative

Deep Tech

Singapore

Singapore will feature heavily in iFlytek's regional expansion plans, serving as its operational hub within Southeast Asia.

iFlytek opens Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore, eyes regional growth | KrASIA

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iFlytek opens Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore, eyes regional growth

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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

India

Kazakhstan

Korea

Malaysia

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

Deals in brief: Uber to buy Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda in Taiwan, Hysata lands USD 111.3 million in Series B funding, Active Surfaces closes oversubscribed pre-seed round, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Uber to buy Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda in Taiwan, Hysata lands USD 111.3 million in Series B funding, Active Surfaces closes oversubscribed pre-seed round, and more

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Jeff Chay

Baidu

Japan, Korea, and the West

Tesla

autonomous driving

baidu

self-driving

The US carmaker has cleared regulatory obstacles, but the timetable remains unclear.

Tesla to work with Baidu in push to offer self-driving tech in China | KrASIA

Tesla to work with Baidu in push to offer self-driving tech in China

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Nikkei Asia

Edtech

KrASIA | Edtech Archives

Education

China's Largest News Aggregator Toutiao Leads $200 Million Investment in Education Startup 17zuoye

The B2B segment of the total K-12 after school education market is projected to surpass RMB 100 billion by 2025, says new report

Hit by pandemic, China’s after-school education market embraces doing business online | KrASIA

Hit by pandemic, China’s after-school education market embraces doing business online

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South China Morning Post

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

This marks a significant increase compared with one year ago.

CHINA BRIEF | Online education company Koolearn Technology predicts USD 114 million net losses in 2020 | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Online education company Koolearn Technology predicts USD 114 million net losses in 2020

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Song Jingli

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

Toppr joins the likes of Byju’s, Unacademy, and Vedantu, among others that raised money this year due to sudden jump in new user enrollments.

Indian edtech startup Toppr raises USD 47 million led by Foundation Holdings | KrASIA

Indian edtech startup Toppr raises USD 47 million led by Foundation Holdings

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Avanish Tiwary

EF will retain significant ownership in the business, which has been operative for more than 20 years and built 288 schools across 62 cities in China and 79 schools in Indonesia.

EF sells stake of kids' education business to Permira to further expand in China | KrASIA

EF sells stake of kids&#8217; education business to Permira to further expand in China

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

The company raised USD 7.5 million in its Series B round led by Alibaba-backed BAce Capital.

ByteDance in talks to invest in Indian edtech company Lido Learning | KrASIA

ByteDance in talks to invest in Indian edtech company Lido Learning

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

Alibaba

COVID-19

Taobao

taobao education

Alibaba throws its weight behind the online education industry. 

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei | KrASIA

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei

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Lin Lingyi

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

M&amp;A deals in India fell by 28% in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year.

Distress sales to accelerate mergers and acquisition deals in the second half of 2020 | KrASIA

Distress sales to accelerate mergers and acquisition deals in the second half of 2020

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Unacademy

This is Coatue Management's first investment in an edtech company in the country.

Investments in Indian edtech sector expected to maintain the pace in the second half of 2020 | KrASIA

Investments in Indian edtech sector expected to maintain the pace in the second half of 2020

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Reliance

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

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

E-Commerce

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Grocery Delivery

Video

The USD 4.5 billion check that Google wrote for a 7.7% stake is the second-largest investment in Jio Platforms after Facebook.