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

China Tech

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

xiaomi

The smartphone maker hopes to turn the 'Apple Car' idea into reality.

China's Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto | KrASIA

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Chery

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

The Chinese automaker is banking on the new brand to change its fortunes in the NEV market.

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end | KrASIA

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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The decade-old "Oriental Leaf Tea" remained Nongfu Spring's driving force in 2023, spearheading the company's growth.

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash | KrASIA

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash

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

On-Demand Services

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The company has reached the store level break-even point for the first time with a profit margin of 12.5%.

Luckin reports 540% revenue growth on quest to outnumber Starbucks storefronts in China | KrASIA

Luckin reports 540% revenue growth on quest to outnumber Starbucks storefronts in China

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Sun Henan

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

Alibaba

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

E-Commerce

The nod clears the way for Hangzhou-based Alibaba to start a weeklong roadshow from November 13 to garner interest from global investors.

Alibaba gets nod to sell shares in Hong Kong, in a secondary listing that catapults city back to the top of world’s IPO ranking | KrASIA

Alibaba gets nod to sell shares in Hong Kong, in a secondary listing that catapults city back to the top of world’s IPO ranking

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SCMP

The startup connects businesses with informal workers in Southeast Asia.

Singapore-headquartered Workmate raises USD 5.2 million funding in Series A round | KrASIA

Singapore-headquartered Workmate raises USD 5.2 million funding in Series A round

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Khamila Mulia

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

Widjaja believes in creating a safe environment in the tech space so women can excel.

Crystal Widjaja on Gojek's growth and gender diversity in IT: Women In Tech | KrASIA

Crystal Widjaja on Gojek&#8217;s growth and gender diversity in IT: Women In Tech

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

This partnership means that OVO is no longer the exclusive digital payment partner at Grab Indonesia.

After Gojek, LinkAja has now formed a partnership with Grab | KrASIA

After Gojek, LinkAja has now formed a partnership with Grab

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

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

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

While ShareChat is yet to find a revenue model, ByteDance has posted its maiden profit in India.

ByteDance India posts profit while Indian rival ShareChat reels under losses | KrASIA

ByteDance India posts profit while Indian rival ShareChat reels under losses

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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 estimated that by 2020, India will have over 650 million internet users, more than the combined population of the G7 countries.

Tencent makes its first bet in India's video-streaming segment | KrASIA

Tencent makes its first bet in India&#8217;s video-streaming segment

The startup wants to expand its Gojek-style multi-service model in Vietnam's key cities.

Vietnamese startup Lozi closes funding led by South Korea’s Smilegate Investment | KrASIA

Vietnamese startup Lozi closes funding led by South Korea’s Smilegate Investment

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Thu Huong Le

Read stories of Travel service providers, platforms or the trending of the travel industry.

Travel

Kicking off in Singapore, the service will be available in Indonesia and Thailand by year end.

On-Demand Services

Luckin reports 540% revenue growth on quest to outnumber Starbucks storefronts in China

Alibaba gets nod to sell shares in Hong Kong, in a secondary listing that catapults city back to the top of world’s IPO ranking

Singapore-headquartered Workmate raises USD 5.2 million funding in Series A round

Crystal Widjaja on Gojek’s growth and gender diversity in IT: Women In Tech

After Gojek, LinkAja has now formed a partnership with Grab

ByteDance India posts profit while Indian rival ShareChat reels under losses

Tencent makes its first bet in India’s video-streaming segment

Vietnamese startup Lozi closes funding led by South Korea’s Smilegate Investment

Booking.com launches ride-hailing service via partnership with Grab

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