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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more

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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.

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Semiconductors

The Chinese tech company is spending billions, snapping up talent in its battle against the US crackdown.

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai | KrASIA

Huawei building vast chip equipment R&#038;D center in Shanghai

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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.

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Douyin

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.

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

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

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Meituan Shangou, its quick commerce business, could play a significant role in its strategy to counter competition from main rival Douyin.

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business | KrASIA

With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business

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Indian founders and VCs ACT against COVID-19: Q&A with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital | KrASIA

Indian founders and VCs ACT against COVID-19: Q&#038;A with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital

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It's a really bad time for funds that made investments in 2015 and 2016, as they are entering what was meant to be their harvest.

VCs shouldn't rush to sell in the secondary market now, says BRI Ventures’ Nicko Widjaja | KrASIA

VCs shouldn&#8217;t rush to sell in the secondary market now, says BRI Ventures’ Nicko Widjaja

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The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

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

Transportation

MapmyIndia is backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Flipkart, and Japanese map publisher Zenrin Co. Ltd.

On locating COVID-19 testing and quarantine centers on a map: Q&A with MapmyIndia's Rakesh and Rohan Verma | KrASIA

On locating COVID-19 testing and quarantine centers on a map: Q&#038;A with MapmyIndia&#8217;s Rakesh and Rohan Verma

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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.

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DeeMoney’s Rasmegh Srisethi and the passion of an early tech entrepreneur: Profiles in Tech

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Sng established the private investment platform that is financing growth and pre-IPO stage companies and funds.

Fundnel’s Khai Lin Sng on making hard calls in the tech industry: Profiles in Tech | KrASIA

Fundnel’s Khai Lin Sng on making hard calls in the tech industry: Profiles in Tech

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. 

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Grab is committed to support the livelihoods of drivers and merchants in .

Grab Vietnam managing director on new car-hailing regulations, impact from COVID-19 | KrASIA

Grab Vietnam managing director on new car-hailing regulations, impact from COVID-19

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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.

Businesses will have to enhance their AI capabilities in the near future, according to Fanglin Wang, head of computer vision at Advance.AI.

Ethical usage of facial recognition is critical during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis, computer vision expert says | KrASIA

Ethical usage of facial recognition is critical during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis, computer vision expert says

Qlue

As tech startups mature, they also experience growing pains.

Maya Arvini of Qlue on restructuring chaotic startup culture | KrASIA

Maya Arvini of Qlue on restructuring chaotic startup culture

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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. 

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Based in Singapore, he currently runs Livspace, a home design and renovation platform.

Q&A

Indian founders and VCs ACT against COVID-19: Q&A with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital

VCs shouldn’t rush to sell in the secondary market now, says BRI Ventures’ Nicko Widjaja

On locating COVID-19 testing and quarantine centers on a map: Q&A with MapmyIndia’s Rakesh and Rohan Verma