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

Deals in brief: IvyCap Ventures announces final close of third fund, Ion Energy raises USD 3 million, 19 China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: IvyCap Ventures announces final close of third fund, Ion Energy raises USD 3 million, 19 China and India deals, and more

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The chipmaking equipment producer looks 'four generations ahead' in bolstering the supply chain.

Tokyo Electron investments help Japan's Silicon Road reclaim glory | KrASIA

Tokyo Electron investments help Japan&#8217;s Silicon Road reclaim glory

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

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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 | KrASIA

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

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Photovoltaics in a desert solar power farm in the Negev desert, Israel. Source: Shutterstock.

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

Food Tech

Whether it's developments in food, agriculture, or renewable energy, Israeli researchers are finding new ways to adapt to changing global conditions.

Jeff Bezos' USD 10 billion Earth Fund should look to Israel for innovative climate change solutions | KrASIA

Jeff Bezos&#8217; USD 10 billion Earth Fund should look to Israel for innovative climate change solutions

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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

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

Enterprise Services

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Live Streaming

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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As many cities are under some form of quarantine, daily life has changed considerably.

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak

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Toutiao to build up a partial paywall for its top-ranked news app in China  

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

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

Kuaishou

Users and official sources are uploading thousands of videos from the quarantined city of Wuhan.

Short-video apps are becoming news sources amid outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus in China | KrASIA

Short-video apps are becoming news sources amid outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus in China

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

Alibaba

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

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

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.

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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. 

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

In China, users spent an average of 600 million cumulative hours watching short-form videos, according to the 2019 Internet Trend Report.

How a decade of smartphone apps changed the way people live, work, and play in China | KrASIA

How a decade of smartphone apps changed the way people live, work, and play in China

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SCMP

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

Chinese authorities have recently detained a band for selling private webcam video content online for less than a dollar.

Growing adoption of private webcams raise risk of security threats in China | KrASIA

Growing adoption of private webcams raise risk of security threats in China

Security

Despite the controversy, facial recognition technology has been expanding quickly in China.

Chinese safari park sued for scanning visitors with facial recognition technology  | KrASIA

Chinese safari park sued for scanning visitors with facial recognition technology 

The collective spirit of generosity will bring about positive changes in society.

Cheryl Low and Ellen Chua of SimplyGiving on #MYGiving: Women in Tech | KrASIA

Cheryl Low and Ellen Chua of SimplyGiving on #MYGiving: Women in Tech

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Jeff Bezos’ USD 10 billion Earth Fund should look to Israel for innovative climate change solutions