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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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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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

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

Entertainment

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

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Douyu is now the largest game-centric live-streaming site in China by MAU.

Chinese live-streaming platform Douyu reports profits after its struggling IPO | KrASIA

Chinese live-streaming platform Douyu reports profits after its struggling IPO

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Song Jingli

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

It is among the most downloaded apps in the Philippines and in Malaysia.

As growth at home slows, Tencent Music expands its social entertainment app WeSing to Southeast Asia | KrASIA

As growth at home slows, Tencent Music expands its social entertainment app WeSing to Southeast Asia

BIGO hopes to generate more revenue based on its technology.

BIGO, part of Chinese live-streamer YY, wants to sell “Broadcasting as a Service” | KrASIA

BIGO, part of Chinese live-streamer YY, wants to sell “Broadcasting as a Service”

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

It might soon join Baidu's content family.

Tencent-backed "Chinese Quora" Zhihu receives USD 434 million strategic investment from Baidu and Kuaishou | KrASIA

Tencent-backed &#8220;Chinese Quora&#8221; Zhihu receives USD 434 million strategic investment from Baidu and Kuaishou

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Viktoria Fricova

Qimao had an exceptional run in April, beating ByteDance's Douyin and Toutiao in the number of downloads on the Chinese App Store.

Baidu acquires nearly 40% stake in online free novel app Qimao | KrASIA

Baidu acquires nearly 40% stake in online free novel app Qimao

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Chinese giants Tencent and Baidu have started offering VOD services in Vietnam.

Tencent and Baidu start offering video streaming services in Vietnam | KrASIA

Tencent and Baidu start offering video streaming services in Vietnam

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Thu Huong Le

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

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Timi Studio Group is behind popular games including Honour of Kings and Game for Peace.

Tencent's game studio to develop new game with the company that owns the Pokémon brand | KrASIA

Tencent&#8217;s game studio to develop new game with the company that owns the Pokémon brand

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Luna Lin

The company has been called a dark horse that remains unnoticed in the sector.

Short-video app Kuaishou has the most active daily users in China's video game streaming sector | KrASIA

Short-video app Kuaishou has the most active daily users in China&#8217;s video game streaming sector

The live-streaming platform raised the largest Chinese US offering of the year.

Entertainment

Chinese live-streaming platform Douyu reports profits after its struggling IPO

As growth at home slows, Tencent Music expands its social entertainment app WeSing to Southeast Asia

BIGO, part of Chinese live-streamer YY, wants to sell “Broadcasting as a Service”

Tencent-backed “Chinese Quora” Zhihu receives USD 434 million strategic investment from Baidu and Kuaishou

Baidu acquires nearly 40% stake in online free novel app Qimao

Tencent and Baidu start offering video streaming services in Vietnam

Tencent’s game studio to develop new game with the company that owns the Pokémon brand

Short-video app Kuaishou has the most active daily users in China’s video game streaming sector

Douyu goes public raising USD 775 million in the US IPO

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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