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Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

Temasek

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

India

Philippines

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more

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

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Marvin Goh

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

China's foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught | KrASIA

China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

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

Alibaba

Taobao

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

Tmall

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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.

KrASIA | IoT Archives

Deep Tech

IPO of IoT cloud platform Tuya raises USD 915 million

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

China Tech

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.

Tencent-backed internet of things (IoT) cloud platform Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA) opened for trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, raising USD 915 million with at an initial offering price of USD 21, higher than its original target of USD 20. The stock finished the session at USD 25, up 19%.

KEY STAT | Stock of Chinese IoT cloud software Tuya rallies in NYSE debut | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Stock of Chinese IoT cloud software Tuya rallies in NYSE debut

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Julianna Wu

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

Xiaomi

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

Health Tech

A HKD 10 billion (USD 1.3 billion) share repurchase plan pushed up Xiaomi's Hong Kong-listed stock by almost 10% on Friday morning, to later close the session 4.12% higher at HKD 22.75. The smartphone vendor, together with its affiliate Shunwei Capital, also announced that both invested in the Series C round of Shanghai-based company I-Fitness, contributing more than RMB 100 million (USD 15 million).

Xiaomi invests in bodybuilding community to lift IoT products | KrASIA

Xiaomi invests in bodybuilding community to lift IoT products

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Song Jingli

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

SkyTran offers driverless, taxi-like pods that can cut down passengers' hour-long drive to just a few minutes.

Why India's richest person Mukesh Ambani is betting on American futuristic mobility company SkyTran | KrASIA

Why India&#8217;s richest person Mukesh Ambani is betting on American futuristic mobility company SkyTran

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

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Baidu

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

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

E-Commerce

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

The takeover of YY Live has been "substantially completed."

Baidu reports solid profits, expects first EV within 3 years | KrASIA

Baidu reports solid profits, expects first EV within 3 years

The tech giant said it believes that the decision, which makes it impossible for US investors to buy into Xiaomi, was "factually incorrect and has deprived the company of legal due process." Xiaomi hopes that the US District Court for the District of Columbia would declare the decision illegal and reverse it.

Xiaomi files legal complaint against US ban | KrASIA

Xiaomi files legal complaint against US ban

BeatO is creating a digital care ecosystem for chronic condition management powered by AI to proactively intervene and provide actionable insights to users in real time.

India's healthtech startup BeatO enters Singapore | KrASIA

India&#8217;s healthtech startup BeatO enters Singapore

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Avanish Tiwary

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Agriculture

The company aims to reach 1 million farmers within three years.

eFishery appoints former GoPay CEO as commissioner | KrASIA

eFishery appoints former GoPay CEO as commissioner

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Ursula Florene

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

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. 

Smartphones

The new operating system can help Huawei reduce its reliance on US technology and services.

Huawei rolls out Harmony OS for smartphones to replace Android | KrASIA

Huawei rolls out Harmony OS for smartphones to replace Android

A newly-established health lab in Xi'an includes areas for experimental smart-wearable product testing and sports health innovation development.

Huawei tops the global wrist-wearable market, exec says | KrASIA

Huawei tops the global wrist-wearable market, exec says

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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IoT

KEY STAT | Stock of Chinese IoT cloud software Tuya rallies in NYSE debut

Xiaomi invests in bodybuilding community to lift IoT products

Why India’s richest person Mukesh Ambani is betting on American futuristic mobility company SkyTran