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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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Marvin Goh

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

China Tech

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.

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

The Onvo sub-brand expands Nio's electric vehicle lineup beyond its focus on premium consumers.

Nio launches the Onvo L60 SUV, throwing down gauntlet to Tesla’s Model Y | KrASIA

Nio launches the Onvo L60 SUV, throwing down gauntlet to Tesla’s Model Y

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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

E-Commerce

Retail

LVMH and other groups see sales slip in the region as consumers turn thrifty.

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China&#8217;s shoppers still want luxury, but they are okay with secondhand goods

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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. 

Short Video

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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Creative

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

618 Shopping Festival

Douyin

TikTok says it's launching its own shopping cart, while its mini-app platform will give access to JD.com and other e-commerce platforms.

JD.com (sort of, not really) partners with Douyin for 618 Shopping Festival | KrASIA

JD.com (sort of, not really) partners with Douyin for 618 Shopping Festival

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Lao Bei

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

music streaming

spotify

TikTok

It's not immediately clear if it's related to the company's ongoing negotiation with major music labels over royalties.

ByteDance reportedly has more than 100 people working on a Spotify-like music streaming app | KrASIA

ByteDance reportedly has more than 100 people working on a Spotify-like music streaming app

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Luna Lin

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

Entertainment

But the move could curtail their future growth.

Chinese short video apps Douyin and Kwai introduce feature to cut users' screen time | KrASIA

Chinese short video apps Douyin and Kwai introduce feature to cut users&#8217; screen time

BIGO

live-streaming

Short video

Chinese apps dominate Middle East short video and live streaming market | KrASIA

Chinese apps dominate Middle East short video and live streaming market

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Song Jingli

Kuai

live video

Kwai Concept's goal is very transparent - to lure more users from first and second-tier cities.

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin's core users | KrASIA

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin&#8217;s core users

Anti-pornography

Bigo Live

indonesia

live-video app

video streaming

Indonesia has tough anti-pornography laws

Live-video app Bigo already had to block 200,000 pieces of content in Indonesia | KrASIA

Live-video app Bigo already had to block 200,000 pieces of content in Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

TikTok, a short-video app created by the world's most valuable startup ByteDance, is out seeking advertisers in the United States, Digiday reported on

Touting better user stickiness than Facebook, TikTok looks for advertisers in the US | KrASIA

Touting better user stickiness than Facebook, TikTok looks for advertisers in the US

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

Alibaba

Aibaba

Bilibili

Alibaba announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday that its subsidiary Taobao has bought nearly 24 million shares of

Alibaba buys into online video-sharing site Bilibili to tap young consumers | KrASIA

Alibaba buys into online video-sharing site Bilibili to tap young consumers

Tik Tok

Tik Tok in India

India contributed the rapidest growth as downloads in this country grew from 1.3 million in December 2017 to 32.3 million in December 2018.

Short Video

JD.com (sort of, not really) partners with Douyin for 618 Shopping Festival

ByteDance reportedly has more than 100 people working on a Spotify-like music streaming app

Chinese short video apps Douyin and Kwai introduce feature to cut users’ screen time

Chinese apps dominate Middle East short video and live streaming market

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin’s core users

Live-video app Bigo already had to block 200,000 pieces of content in Indonesia

Touting better user stickiness than Facebook, TikTok looks for advertisers in the US

Alibaba buys into online video-sharing site Bilibili to tap young consumers

Tik Tok’s growth hit new peak last month thanks to surging downloads from India

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