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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

Taobao

Tmall

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

E-Commerce

High GMV and 88VIP engagement drove Alibaba’s Q3 growth, but profit pressures highlight a fiercely contested market.

88VIP shines amid Alibaba’s Q3 growth and profitability struggles | KrASIA

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88VIP shines amid Alibaba’s Q3 growth and profitability struggles

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

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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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JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

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

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

On-Demand Services

Improved margins and a rebound in sales lifted JD.com’s Q3 profits, but market skepticism lingered over future growth.

JD.com’s Q3: Strong profits and growth fail to buoy investor confidence | KrASIA

JD.com’s Q3: Strong profits and growth fail to buoy investor confidence

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.

Deep Tech

Artificial intelligence

After Meta’s success with Ray-Ban, Xiaomi joins Baidu in the race to make AI glasses China’s next tech hit.

Xiaomi to launch new AI glasses after Ray-Ban Meta stirs China demand | KrASIA

Xiaomi to launch new AI glasses after Ray-Ban Meta stirs China demand

KrASIA | News Archives

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA 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

Over 800 global speakers will join this year's Fintech Festival, including heads of state, financial and tech leaders, policy makers, leading startups, and multilateral agencies.

The Singapore Fintech Festival is back in December—in a hybrid format | KrASIA

The Singapore Fintech Festival is back in December—in a hybrid format

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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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. 

Hardware

Before the livestreaming event was announced, Baidu’s shopping channel, which launched quietly in the last month, only offered a limited range of products.

China Unicom, Baidu offer iPhone 12 on newly launched shopping channel | KrASIA

China Unicom, Baidu offer iPhone 12 on newly launched shopping channel

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Song Jingli

Ant Group's Q1-Q3 gorss profit year-on-year increase: 74%

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

Alibaba is subscribing for a fifth of the available Ant shares in the IPO, that could raise as much as USD 35 billion.

KEY STAT | Ant Group posts 74% year-on-year profit increase ahead of mega IPO | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Ant Group posts 74% year-on-year profit increase ahead of mega IPO

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Julianna Wu

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. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

Entertainment

Regulators step up oversight of tech giants.

Google faces antitrust scrutiny in Asia after US lawsuit | KrASIA

Google faces antitrust scrutiny in Asia after US lawsuit

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Nikkei Asia

Intel's Ignite growth accelerator selects 10 new startups

Intel Ignite selects Israeli seed-stage startups for its second cohort in March 2020. Courtesy of Intel Ignite via NoCamels.

60 judges decided which of the 230 applicants made the cut.

Intel's Ignite growth accelerator selects 10 new startups for third cohort | KrASIA

Intel&#8217;s Ignite growth accelerator selects 10 new startups for third cohort

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Amazon India

Flipkart

The opening days of the festive sales saw consumers rushing to make big value purchases such as smartphones and home appliances.

Amazon and Flipkart scoop up USD 3.5 billion in first four days of festive sales | KrASIA

Amazon and Flipkart scoop up USD 3.5 billion in first four days of festive sales

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Jack Ma & family's total wealth: USD 58.8 billion

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

Tencent's Pony Ma registers the biggest personal wealth increase among all the names on the rich list.

KEY STAT | Alibaba's Jack Ma retains title of richest man in China for the third year | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Alibaba&#8217;s Jack Ma retains title of richest man in China for the third year

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

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

Douyin will roll out landscape mode soon and mobile editing tool Jianying will have a PC version.

ByteDance's Xigua Video pivots to 'middle video,' incentivizing creators with USD 300 million | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Xigua Video pivots to &#8216;middle video,&#8217; incentivizing creators with USD 300 million

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

Singapore

The news came after a handful of other US-based food tech firms have already sprung up to fill the rising demand for plant-based food in Asia such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.

Egg substitute maker Eat Just to build first Asia factory in Singapore, eyes takeoff in Q1 2021 | KrASIA

Egg substitute maker Eat Just to build first Asia factory in Singapore, eyes takeoff in Q1 2021

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