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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.

KrASIA

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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.

Content

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.

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

Cambodia

India

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

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.

Gaming

KrASIA | Gaming Archives

Minecraft gamers are using online blueprints to digitally rebuild two medical centers used to help fight the coronavirus.

Minecraft players are recreating China’s rapidly built Wuhan hospitals | KrASIA

Minecraft players are recreating China’s rapidly built Wuhan hospitals

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

Trung Nguyen is on a mission to make a blockchain game accessible to everyone.

This Vietnamese developer is behind one of the world's most popular blockchain games: Profiles in Tech | KrASIA

This Vietnamese developer is behind one of the world&#8217;s most popular blockchain games: Profiles in Tech

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Thu Huong Le

King Pro League, featuring Tencent’s Honor of Kings, will be held online.

Coronavirus moves major Chinese e-sports tournament from stadium to virtual space | KrASIA

Coronavirus moves major Chinese e-sports tournament from stadium to virtual space

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

Education

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

Enterprise Services

Live Streaming

Social Impact

Videos

As many cities are under some form of quarantine, daily life has changed considerably.

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak

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James Chan

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

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

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

On-Demand Services

Visual Stories

Mobile games, short-video apps, and online medical services are some sectors who saw growth.

Infographic | Coronavirus-impacted economy brings new opportunities to these tech sectors | KrASIA

Infographic | Coronavirus-impacted economy brings new opportunities to these tech sectors

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Julianna Wu

WeGame, Tencent’s answer to Steam, lets gamers try Subnautica, Hitman Go, My Time at Portia and Chinese Parents for free.

Tencent offers two-hour free trial for 55 PC games amid coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

Tencent offers two-hour free trial for 55 PC games amid coronavirus outbreak

Three of the top five free mobile games in China on the first day of Lunar New Year were published by ByteDance, showing early signs of a challenge to Tencent.

ByteDance's move into gaming is already paying off | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s move into gaming is already paying off

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

Entertainment

From contactless food delivery to gaming overload, here's how tech is changing because of the viral epidemic.

Five ways the coronavirus is changing how China uses tech | KrASIA

Five ways the coronavirus is changing how China uses tech

Major e-sports matches like these attract large crowds, which China is trying to avoid.