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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.

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

microsoft

Oracle

TikTok

walmart

The Chinese app factory has submitted a proposal to mollify the Trump administration at the eleventh hour, leaving TikTok's fate in the balance.

ByteDance lobs ball into Trump's court with sights on Oracle and Walmart partnerships | KrASIA

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ByteDance lobs ball into Trump&#8217;s court with sights on Oracle and Walmart partnerships

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

KrASIA

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Lin Lingyi

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.

Venture Capital

funding

Silicon Valley

Startups

vc/pe

venture debt

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, venture debt is set to boost its position in Southeast Asia's startup ecosystem.

Will venture debt be a white knight for startups in Southeast Asia? | KrASIA

Will venture debt be a white knight for startups in Southeast Asia?

The avatar for Microsoft's Xiaoice, which boasts 660 million users globally. Courtesy of Microsoft via South China Morning Post.

Microsoft

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.

Chatbot

Xiaoice

Following Xiaoice’s split from Microsoft, CEO Li Di is confident that development remains on track.

Tracing an independent future for Xiaoice, China's most popular chatbot | KrASIA

Tracing an independent future for Xiaoice, China&#8217;s most popular chatbot

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

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

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.

Smart CIty

Acclaimed industry leaders from China and Southeast Asia shared their thoughts on smart city development during the first installment of the Singapore x Asia Innovation Partnership Forum.

Singapore x Asia Innovation Partnership Forum｜Smart Cities - Event Recap | KrASIA

Singapore x Asia Innovation Partnership Forum｜Smart Cities &#8211; Event Recap

iglobe partners

koh soo boon

vmtv

Koh Soo Boon, founding partner iGlobe Partners and Singapore's first female VC, joins KrASIA to discuss the evolution of entrepreneurship over the years and timeless qualities that endure.

These kids take only ten years when rich old men took thirty, says iGlobe Partners' Koh Soo Boon | KrASIA

These kids take only ten years when rich old men took thirty, says iGlobe Partners&#8217; Koh Soo Boon

Deep Tech

deeptech

early stage

Korea

PE/VC

Research

startup

university

Q&amp;A

The Korean fund has invested in six startups in Southeast Asia so far, with more to come down the pipeline.

'We create industries by connecting the dots': Q&amp;A with Sunbo Angel Partners founders | KrASIA

&#8216;We create industries by connecting the dots&#8217;: Q&amp;A with Sunbo Angel Partners founders

beauty industry

E-commerce

social commerce

Xiaohongshu

Grassroots feedback on Xiaohongshu drives perceptual changes for Chinese beauty brands.

Chinese cosmetics brands use Xiaohongshu to shake off shady image | KrASIA

Chinese cosmetics brands use Xiaohongshu to shake off shady image

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

Event

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?

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

Kuaishou

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

E-Commerce

ecommerce

livestreaming

video

Kuaishou's head of e-commerce, Yu Shuang, reveals details about the firm's e-commerce strategy.

Lin Lingyi

ByteDance lobs ball into Trump’s court with sights on Oracle and Walmart partnerships

Will venture debt be a white knight for startups in Southeast Asia?

Tracing an independent future for Xiaoice, China’s most popular chatbot

Singapore x Asia Innovation Partnership Forum｜Smart Cities – Event Recap

These kids take only ten years when rich old men took thirty, says iGlobe Partners’ Koh Soo Boon

‘We create industries by connecting the dots’: Q&A with Sunbo Angel Partners founders

Chinese cosmetics brands use Xiaohongshu to shake off shady image

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

An inside look into Kuaishou’s livestreaming e-commerce plans