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Tiktok

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

Entertainment

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

American tech giant Microsoft is said to be in talks with ShareChat to invest USD 100 million.

TikTok rival ShareChat brings back its laid-off employees as traffic spikes | KrASIA

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TikTok rival ShareChat brings back its laid-off employees as traffic spikes

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

KrASIA

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Flipkart

Samsung

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

Xiaomi

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

E-Commerce

Smartphones

Amazon’s smartphone market share was driven by Xiaomi, Samsung, and OnePlus.

Amazon trumps Flipkart in online sales of smartphones in Q2 2020 | KrASIA

Amazon trumps Flipkart in online sales of smartphones in Q2 2020

Reliance

Although Reliance has about 400 million telecom subscribers, its wide range of digital offerings do not have mass user appeal.

Reliance may become TikTok's savior in India | KrASIA

Reliance may become TikTok&#8217;s savior in India

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Swiggy

Zomato

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

Education

Electric 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

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 total value of all known unicorns based in India is USD 73.2 billion, while the value of unicorns founded overseas by Indians sums up to USD 99.6  billion.

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally | KrASIA

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally

Bjyu's

Sequoia Capital

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

Edtech

In a meteoric rise, Byju’s valuation has jumped from USD 1 billion to USD 10.5 billion in mere two years.

The making of Byju's–the world's most valuable edtech startup | KrASIA

The making of Byju&#8217;s–the world&#8217;s most valuable edtech startup

Food Delivery

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

Food Tech

Grocery Delivery

Swiggy already delivers grocery through Swiggy Stores, which partners with kirana stores to facilitate grocery delivery in two hours.

Swiggy aims to deliver grocery as fast as food | KrASIA

Swiggy aims to deliver grocery as fast as food

Xiaomi continued to be the number one player, with about 29% market share, followed by Samsung and Vivo.

Indian smartphone market set to recover in second half of the year | KrASIA

Indian smartphone market set to recover in second half of the year

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.

India banned 47 more Chinese apps including Xiaomi's Mi Browser Pro and Baidu Search.

Indian government's ban on Xiaomi's apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy | KrASIA

Indian government&#8217;s ban on Xiaomi&#8217;s apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy

Tiger Global

Investment

Edtech has emerged as one of the most sought after sectors by global as well as local venture capital firms.

Moulishree Srivastava

TikTok rival ShareChat brings back its laid-off employees as traffic spikes

Amazon trumps Flipkart in online sales of smartphones in Q2 2020

Reliance may become TikTok’s savior in India

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally

The making of Byju’s–the world’s most valuable edtech startup

Swiggy aims to deliver grocery as fast as food

Indian smartphone market set to recover in second half of the year

Indian government’s ban on Xiaomi’s apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy

Byju’s to raise USD 400 million from DST Global