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ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

A spate of tragedies reveal an industry in crisis.

'I feel like I am delivering with my life': China's couriers reach breaking point | KrASIA

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&#8216;I feel like I am delivering with my life&#8217;: China&#8217;s couriers reach breaking point

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

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Nikkei Asia

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Lending

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

More digital companies dump new businesses under government pressure.

China's Big Tech crackdown drives Meituan out of health coverage | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Big Tech crackdown drives Meituan out of health coverage

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

Kuaishou

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

Chinese short-video app backing comes despite tense Washington-Beijing relations.

Big US funds stake claim on quarter of Kuaishou's USD 5.4 billion IPO | KrASIA

Big US funds stake claim on quarter of Kuaishou&#8217;s USD 5.4 billion IPO

Electric Vehicles

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

Semiconductors

Assembly lines halt as industry vies with consumer gadgets for semiconductors

Asia's chip crunch slams the brakes on carmakers' COVID recovery | KrASIA

Asia&#8217;s chip crunch slams the brakes on carmakers&#8217; COVID recovery

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

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.

5G, EV chargers, and AI to be boosted as Beijing eyes prolonged tensions with US.

China to pump USD 1.6 trillion into tech infrastructure through 2025 | KrASIA

China to pump USD 1.6 trillion into tech infrastructure through 2025

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

Douyin

Short-video company targets e-commerce for growth, in defiance of leader Alipay.

ByteDance unveils payment service for China's version of TikTok | KrASIA

ByteDance unveils payment service for China&#8217;s version of TikTok

Investment

Money flows into health care and digital transformation-related sectors.

US and Chinese startup investments swell amid pandemic | KrASIA

US and Chinese startup investments swell amid pandemic

Investors

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

Yosuke Sasaki has helped small office grow into a tech investment titan.

Force behind SoftBank Vision Fund is 44-year-old 'chief of staff' | KrASIA

Force behind SoftBank Vision Fund is 44-year-old &#8216;chief of staff&#8217;

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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Nikkei Asia

‘I feel like I am delivering with my life’: China’s couriers reach breaking point

China’s Big Tech crackdown drives Meituan out of health coverage

Big US funds stake claim on quarter of Kuaishou’s USD 5.4 billion IPO

Asia’s chip crunch slams the brakes on carmakers’ COVID recovery

China to pump USD 1.6 trillion into tech infrastructure through 2025

ByteDance unveils payment service for China’s version of TikTok

US and Chinese startup investments swell amid pandemic

Force behind SoftBank Vision Fund is 44-year-old ‘chief of staff’

Asians dump WhatsApp for Signal and Telegram on privacy concerns