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

Alibaba

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

China Tech

Lazada

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Alibaba injects another USD 230 million into Lazada, Arpwood Partners acquires majority stake in Sitara, five China deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Alibaba injects another USD 230 million into Lazada, Arpwood Partners acquires majority stake in Sitara, five China deals, and more

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

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Marvin Goh

Li Auto

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Tesla

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

Xiaomi

Xpeng

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

autonomous driving

self-driving

Self-driving cars

There's no standout leader in China's autonomous driving landscape yet, but Tesla's influence has ignited Level 3 ambitions.

The current state of self-driving across China in 2024 | KrASIA

The current state of self-driving across China in 2024

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Electric Vehicles

Indonesia

Electric vehicle

indonesia

The automakers are planning local productions to crack a market dominated by Japanese players.

China's BYD, Neta eye growth in Indonesia with new EV investments | KrASIA

China&#8217;s BYD, Neta eye growth in Indonesia with new EV investments

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Nikkei Asia

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

KrASIA | Payments Archives

Fintech

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

India Tech

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

DotPe helps restaurants with catalogue management, in-store ordering, digital payments, and customer engagement.

DotPe challenges Zomato and Swiggy with F&B enterprise tools | Startup Stories | KrASIA

DotPe challenges Zomato and Swiggy with F&#038;B enterprise tools | Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

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

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Lending

India ranks second after China among developing countries where residents don’t have a bank account or access to financial services.

How neo-banks are ushering a new age of digital banking in India | KrASIA

How neo-banks are ushering a new age of digital banking in India

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Namrata Acharya

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

Visual Stories

Ant Group eyes the largest IPO of 2020 with a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world's most valuable startup that emerged from China's online payment competition | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world&#8217;s most valuable startup that emerged from China&#8217;s online payment competition

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Julianna Wu

The launch of WeChat Pay in Istanbul Airport is expected to increase the shopping volume of Chinese travelers in Turkey.

WeChat Pay launches service in Turkey targeting Chinese tourists | KrASIA

WeChat Pay launches service in Turkey targeting Chinese tourists

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Gozde Celik

EMQ cooperates with digital payment services such as Qianfang’s QFPay and WeChat Pay in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's EMQ notches USD 20 million in Series B round, plans market expansion | KrASIA

Hong Kong&#8217;s EMQ notches USD 20 million in Series B round, plans market expansion

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Ursula Florene

AwanTunai says it is able to originate low-interest financing to the underserved and unbanked merchants by leveraging merchant transaction data recorded on its app.

AwanTunai raises USD 20 million to fund Indonesia’s MSMEs merchants | KrASIA

AwanTunai raises USD 20 million to fund Indonesia’s MSMEs merchants

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

E-Commerce

Saudi Payments and JCB International agree on a partnership to enable the acceptance of JCB cards in Saudi Arabia.

Tata receives a license in Saudi Arabia, Uber launches a bus service in Egypt, and other news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup | KrASIA

Tata receives a license in Saudi Arabia, Uber launches a bus service in Egypt, and other news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup

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Qadisha Group

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

Gojek

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

LinkAja could be the key to dominate the digital payments sector in Indonesia.

Gojek and Grab compete for investment in Indonesia's LinkAja | KrASIA

Gojek and Grab compete for investment in Indonesia&#8217;s LinkAja

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Cindy Silviana

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

Entertainment

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

Unipin confirmed the vulnerability, which included usernames, purchase amounts, and email addresses.

Vulnerability exposes 10 million transactions at Indonesia's largest mobile games payment processor Unipin | KrASIA

Vulnerability exposes 10 million transactions at Indonesia&#8217;s largest mobile games payment processor Unipin

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Payments

DotPe challenges Zomato and Swiggy with F&B enterprise tools | Startup Stories

How neo-banks are ushering a new age of digital banking in India

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world’s most valuable startup that emerged from China’s online payment competition

WeChat Pay launches service in Turkey targeting Chinese tourists

Hong Kong’s EMQ notches USD 20 million in Series B round, plans market expansion

AwanTunai raises USD 20 million to fund Indonesia’s MSMEs merchants

Tata receives a license in Saudi Arabia, Uber launches a bus service in Egypt, and other news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup

Gojek and Grab compete for investment in Indonesia’s LinkAja

Vulnerability exposes 10 million transactions at Indonesia’s largest mobile games payment processor Unipin

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