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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

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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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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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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

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Fintech

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

The online payment platform seeks to consolidate its top position in the Indian payments market.

Google Pay in India adds strategic features to keep competition away | KrASIA

Google Pay in India adds strategic features to keep competition away

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Priya Pradeep

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

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

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

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

E-Commerce

Security

An estimated 390 million yuan was lost to internet fraud in China last year, a five-year high

Why more of China’s digital-savvy Gen Z youth are falling victim to online fraud than their elders | KrASIA

Why more of China’s digital-savvy Gen Z youth are falling victim to online fraud than their elders

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Flipkart

Paytm

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.

There might be a cap on each company's share of total UPI transactions.

India gets jittery as non-banking companies dominate payment transactions | KrASIA

India gets jittery as non-banking companies dominate payment transactions

About half of the population still do not have access to bank accounts.

Mobile money soon to be piloted in Vietnam | KrASIA

Mobile money soon to be piloted in Vietnam

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Thu Huong Le

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

Travel

Alipay and WeChat Pay lure Chinese outbound tourists with favorable exchange rates and streamlined processes.

China’s top two mobile giants take battle to tax refunds | KrASIA

China’s top two mobile giants take battle to tax refunds

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Sun Henan

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Some consumers may be unconcerned but experts warn they can be hurt by giving too much information away.

In China’s tech hub of Shenzhen, it’s hard to pay without an app and that is starting to raise privacy concerns | KrASIA

In China’s tech hub of Shenzhen, it’s hard to pay without an app and that is starting to raise privacy concerns

QFPay operates in 13 markets across Asia and the Middle East.

China-based mobile payment firm QFPay closes USD 20 million funding round | KrASIA

China-based mobile payment firm QFPay closes USD 20 million funding round

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Luna Lin

VIA alliance brings Thai and Singapore-based digital services to Tokyo airports.

Asian tourists have new payment options in Japan as Singtel arrives | KrASIA

Asian tourists have new payment options in Japan as Singtel arrives

Slowly but surely, Vietnamese e-wallet providers are making moves to win over users across the country.