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

China Tech

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

The leading Chinese operator is eyeing expansion into other markets.

Food delivery service Meituan beats revenue forecast | KrASIA

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Food delivery service Meituan beats revenue forecast

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

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

Photo of Benjamin Stein, co-founder and CEO of Staple.

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

Europe

India

Japan

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Staple and Aliena secure funding, Toyota earmarks USD 300 million for climate and “frontier” tech investments, Carro eyes pre-IPO financing, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Staple and Aliena secure funding, Toyota earmarks USD 300 million for climate and “frontier” tech investments, Carro eyes pre-IPO financing, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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.

Fintech

Insurance

The insurance group says its stock price falls out of line with company fundamentals.

China's Ping An hit by USD 2.7 billion loss in asset management business | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Ping An hit by USD 2.7 billion loss in asset management business

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

Travel

KrASIA | Travel Archives

Mobility

Photo by Christopher Alvarenga on Unsplash.

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

By setting trends and spurring #FOMO, photo sharing has taken travel to the next level.

How Instagram is shaking up Southeast Asia's tourism industry | KrASIA

How Instagram is shaking up Southeast Asia&#8217;s tourism industry

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Stephanie Francesca Pereira

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

It covers Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania and America now.

China's Ctrip teams up with 10 ride-hailers worldwide to offer mobility service in 785 cities | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Ctrip teams up with 10 ride-hailers worldwide to offer mobility service in 785 cities

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Song Jingli

The number of visitors from Southeast Asia to Japan is on the rise.

Indonesia's Traveloka integrates tickets for Japanese trains on its platform for seamless travel | KrASIA

Indonesia&#8217;s Traveloka integrates tickets for Japanese trains on its platform for seamless travel

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Khamila Mulia

Competition between venture-backed hotel-tech chains will bring down prices and force smaller players to change their ways.

As OYO casts its shadow on Southeast Asia, it's adapt or die for traditional budget hotels | KrASIA

As OYO casts its shadow on Southeast Asia, it&#8217;s adapt or die for traditional budget hotels

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

TikTok will train Vietnam's tourism partners to promote destinations via the short video app

TikTok signs agreement to help promote Vietnam’s tourism | KrASIA

TikTok signs agreement to help promote Vietnam’s tourism

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Thu Huong Le

PouchNation will be Traveloka’s on-ground tech partner for events and activities.

Traveloka leads investment in Singapore-based event tech platform PouchNation | KrASIA

Traveloka leads investment in Singapore-based event tech platform PouchNation

Startups will also receive help with their visa applications.

Singapore launches accelerator program targeting travel tech startups | KrASIA

Singapore launches accelerator program targeting travel tech startups

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Zhixin Tan

digital insurance

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Traveloka

More and more digital platforms are launching insurance products

Traveloka offers a home protection insurance during the holiday season | KrASIA

Traveloka offers a home protection insurance during the holiday season

YouTrip

Armed with fresh funds, YouTrip eyes the fast-growing Southeast Asian outbound traveler market.

Singaporean mobile wallet YouTrip rakes in USD 25.5 million in pre-Series A round | KrASIA

Singaporean mobile wallet YouTrip rakes in USD 25.5 million in pre-Series A round

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Travel

How Instagram is shaking up Southeast Asia’s tourism industry

China’s Ctrip teams up with 10 ride-hailers worldwide to offer mobility service in 785 cities

Indonesia’s Traveloka integrates tickets for Japanese trains on its platform for seamless travel

As OYO casts its shadow on Southeast Asia, it’s adapt or die for traditional budget hotels