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

Alibaba

Taobao

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

Tmall

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

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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

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Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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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.

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Singapore

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

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: RayGen and Uncharted secure funding, Temasek and BlackRock close USD 1.4 billion climate fund, Bahrain’s Investcorp teams up with China, and more

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Japan

The industry is aiming to start mutual use of QR code payment systems in Southeast Asia and India by Expo 2025 Osaka.

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code | KrASIA

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Q&amp;A

MDI Ventures became the largest multi-fund CVC firm in the country after closing a recent USD 500 million fund.

MDI Ventures to invest up to USD 30 million in startups to boost digitization of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises, CEO says | KrASIA

MDI Ventures to invest up to USD 30 million in startups to boost digitization of Indonesia&#8217;s state-owned enterprises, CEO says

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Khamila Mulia

Amidst a capital winter that befell the technology sector in China last year, consumer-facing brands became the new frontier in investment circles.

The siege of consumer brands: Winning China’s final B2C battle (Part 1 of 2) | KrASIA

The siege of consumer brands: Winning China’s final B2C battle (Part 1 of 2)

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

China Tech

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

E-Commerce

The startup aims to become a leading online healthcare platform in China with an ecosystem that includes insurers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and drug stores.

Tencent and Swiss Re lead insurtech firm Waterdrop’s USD 230 million Series D | KrASIA

Tencent and Swiss Re lead insurtech firm Waterdrop’s USD 230 million Series D

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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

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Robotics

From manufacturing to service sector, robots are playing a bigger role in China.

Investors bet big on Chinese robot makers amid the COVID-19 pandemic | KrASIA

Investors bet big on Chinese robot makers amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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

India Tech

Sequoia's seventh fund will direct USD 1.35 billion toward startups in South and Southeast Asia.

'Growth at all cost is a thing of the past': Q&A with Sequoia Capital India's managing director Abheek Anand | KrASIA

&#8216;Growth at all cost is a thing of the past&#8217;: Q&#038;A with Sequoia Capital India&#8217;s managing director Abheek Anand

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Ursula Florene

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Smart CIty

KrASIA and EDB are proud to host an event that aims to facilitate robust discussions on SEA's tech and innovation ecosystem, featuring speakers from Grab, Sea Group, and more.

Reshuffling the cards: What do industry players think about Southeast Asia’s new economy? | KrASIA

Reshuffling the cards: What do industry players think about Southeast Asia’s new economy?

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Startups

Chin HuiLin, an associate partner at Antler China, speaks to KrASIA about the importance of cross-regional partnerships and embracing localization.

Localizing is key: Lessons from a Singaporean VC in China | KrASIA

Localizing is key: Lessons from a Singaporean VC in China

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Yin Lin Tan

Supported startups will provide value-added digital services to SOEs, and help them to adapt to a rapidly changing business landscape in Indonesia.

MDI Ventures closes USD 500 million fund, wants to digitize Indonesia's state-owned enterprises | KrASIA

MDI Ventures closes USD 500 million fund, wants to digitize Indonesia&#8217;s state-owned enterprises

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OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

Lightspeed India Partners made partial exits of nearly USD 900 million last year from its two star portfolio firms, Oyo and Byju's.

Lightspeed India Partners raised USD 275 million for its third India fund | KrASIA

Lightspeed India Partners raised USD 275 million for its third India fund

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Venture Capital

MDI Ventures to invest up to USD 30 million in startups to boost digitization of Indonesia’s state-owned enterprises, CEO says

The siege of consumer brands: Winning China’s final B2C battle (Part 1 of 2)

Tencent and Swiss Re lead insurtech firm Waterdrop’s USD 230 million Series D

Investors bet big on Chinese robot makers amid the COVID-19 pandemic

‘Growth at all cost is a thing of the past’: Q&A with Sequoia Capital India’s managing director Abheek Anand