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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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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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36Kr English

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

There is top-down support for the country to go cashless.

Mobile payments are becoming more popular in Malaysia, says deputy finance minister | KrASIA

Mobile payments are becoming more popular in Malaysia, says deputy finance minister

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Zhixin Tan

Lakala

Lei Jun

Sun Taoran

xiaomi

Turns out, Lei Jun's promises are as good as gold.

Xiaomi's Lei Jun gives Lakala founder a 1kg gold bar to celebrate successful IPO | KrASIA

Xiaomi&#8217;s Lei Jun gives Lakala founder a 1kg gold bar to celebrate successful IPO

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Luna Lin

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

E-Commerce

early stage

Winner, winner: Early Stage | KrASIA

Winner, winner: Early Stage

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KrASIA Writers

Dianrong

online lending

With regulators cracking down, the vast majority of Chinese P2P lenders is expected to disappear. Dianrong does not want to be one of them.

P2P lending platform Dianrong seeks USD 100 million investment | KrASIA

P2P lending platform Dianrong seeks USD 100 million investment

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Lao Bei

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

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.

Blue Mobile

digital payment

smart retail

Moving forward, it plans to partner with major e-money platforms.

Southeast Asian smart retail startup Blue Mobile closes Series C funding round led by Ant Financial | KrASIA

Southeast Asian smart retail startup Blue Mobile closes Series C funding round led by Ant Financial

China trends

mobile payments

No sign of slowdown: Chinese consumers made 60.5 billion mobile payment transactions in 2018

Chinese mobile payments hit new record with 61% growth in 2018 | KrASIA

Chinese mobile payments hit new record with 61% growth in 2018

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

Entertainment

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

On-Demand Services

Internet

Chinese ordering food online only accounted for 49% of the country's entire internet population, the lowest utilization late among all internet services, indicating there is more room for food delivery service to grow than other services.

One out of two Chinese uses e-commerce sites, but appetite for online food delivery still lagging | KrASIA

One out of two Chinese uses e-commerce sites, but appetite for online food delivery still lagging

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Song Jingli

JD.com

Tencent

How will China’s internet economy develop further? (Part two) | KrASIA

How will China’s internet economy develop further? (Part two)

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Robin Moh

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.

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

online payment

Sending and receiving electric red envelopes posed the biggest pressure to the clearinghouse, followed by shopping and dining.