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Deals in brief: Lenovo’s Leshines gains Saudi backing, Ampd Energy and Ensonic secure funding, Swiggy bags USD 606 million from anchor investors, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Lenovo’s Leshines gains Saudi backing, Ampd Energy and Ensonic secure funding, Swiggy bags USD 606 million from anchor investors, and more

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Amid slowing sales, new CEO Brian Niccol is steering Starbucks back to basics, reviving its “third space” community focus.

With Luckin Coffee on the rise, Starbucks scales back discounts and returns to its roots | KrASIA

With Luckin Coffee on the rise, Starbucks scales back discounts and returns to its roots

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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With innovative approaches and a commitment to cultural and environmental needs, Southeast Asian startups can thrive amid competition and market challenges.

Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages | KrASIA

Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages

Michelle Khoo is the leader of the Deloitte Center for The Edge Southeast Asia. With over a decade of experience in advising business and government leaders on long-term strategies, Khoo is passionate about shaping a more sustainable, fairer, and inclusive future in both physical and digital realms. Her work revolves around artificial intelligence, sustainability, metaverse, disruption, and innovation.

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

India Tech

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

The move is aimed to woo offshore funds and make them park their money in India, which is likely to flow into the world's third-largest startup ecosystem.

India steps up its efforts to attract offshore funds | KrASIA

India steps up its efforts to attract offshore funds

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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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. 

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Myanmar aerobics teacher and dancer, Khing Hnin Wai, has become an overnight internet sensation after a video of her dancing against the backdrop of a convoy of military vehicles went viral.

As Myanmar's military pounced, an aerobics video turns viral | KrASIA

As Myanmar&#8217;s military pounced, an aerobics video turns viral

WallStreetBets flock to online brokerage as retail investors seek Robinhood alternative. Webull, a Chinese-owned trading app, became the second most popular app in the US last Thursday, the day online brokerages imposed restrictions on retail investors buying GameStop, AMC Entertainment, and several other volatile stocks.

GameStop turns little-known China firm Webull into No. 2 app in US | KrASIA

GameStop turns little-known China firm Webull into No. 2 app in US

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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.

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Building on its growth momentum from the latter half of 2020, China's electric vehicle (EV) startups opened the new year with strong increases in delivery numbers.

KEY STAT | Nio quadruples EV deliveries in January | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Nio quadruples EV deliveries in January

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Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

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Elsa, the learning platform founded by Vietnamese entrepreneur Vu Van, just announced that it raised USD 15 million in its Series B round to further extend its business into Latin America.

With new funding, language learning app Elsa is bound for Latin America | KrASIA

With new funding, language learning app Elsa is bound for Latin America

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A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

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BlueSG runs a fleet of 667 vehicles and 1,487 charging stations in Singapore. Home-grown transport and engineering group Goldbell is in advanced talks to buy over an electric car-sharing outfit in Singapore.

EV sharing firm BlueSG reportedly in talks to be sold to Goldbell | KrASIA

EV sharing firm BlueSG reportedly in talks to be sold to Goldbell

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

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India has rolled out a slew of measures to give a leg up to digital payments, fintech ecosystem, and home-grown startups in the Union Budget 2021-22 that was tabled on Monday by the country’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

India's FY22 budget gives a leg-up to digital payments, brings tax relief for startups | KrASIA

India&#8217;s FY22 budget gives a leg-up to digital payments, brings tax relief for startups

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

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Dubai-based Camelan gets Y Combinator's backing for its peer-to-peer video-based marketplace. Dubai-based peer-to-peer video-based marketplace Camelan has received Y Combinator's backing. It is part of Y Combinator's ongoing Winter 2021 (YC W21) batch, the startup told MENAbytes today.

Camelan gets Y Combinator’s backing for P2P video-based marketplace | KrASIA

Camelan gets Y Combinator’s backing for P2P video-based marketplace

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Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

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.

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

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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.

The tech giant said it believes that the decision, which makes it impossible for US investors to buy into Xiaomi, was "factually incorrect and has deprived the company of legal due process." Xiaomi hopes that the US District Court for the District of Columbia would declare the decision illegal and reverse it.

Xiaomi files legal complaint against US ban | KrASIA

Xiaomi files legal complaint against US ban

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