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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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

China Tech

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. 

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

HiSilicon

Smartphone

HiSilicon's chips powered 90% of Huawei's phones targeting the domestic market in the first quarter of 2020.

Huawei's HiSilicon topples Qualcomm as the top smartphone chip supplier in China | KrASIA

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Huawei&#8217;s HiSilicon topples Qualcomm as the top smartphone chip supplier in China

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

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JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

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

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

E-Commerce

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

On-Demand Services

However, Yonghui Superstores' stock dived more than 6% following the announcement.

CHINA BRIEF | Supermarket chain backed by Tencent and JD.com reports nearly 40% increase in Q1 net profits | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Supermarket chain backed by Tencent and JD.com reports nearly 40% increase in Q1 net profits

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

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 online bank's average outstanding loan size is USD 4,300.

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial's MYbank serves 20.9 million small and micro business in 2019, up 70% yearly | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial&#8217;s MYbank serves 20.9 million small and micro business in 2019, up 70% yearly

Airbnb

Despite being cleared of any legal wrongdoing, Jiang has been stripped of his position as a partner at the firm.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba punishes Tmall president for damaging corporate image after affair allegations | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba punishes Tmall president for damaging corporate image after affair allegations

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

Alibaba

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

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

Amid competition from Luckin, Starbucks hopes to digitalize its services in the country.

CHINA BRIEF| Starbucks teams up with Sequoia Capital China to co-invest in beverage startups | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF| Starbucks teams up with Sequoia Capital China to co-invest in beverage startups

The firm distributes smartphones and personal computers of companies including Apple and Huawei.

CHINA BRIEF| Alibaba invests USD 57.5 million to gain 6% stake in consumer tech distributor Aisidi | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF| Alibaba invests USD 57.5 million to gain 6% stake in consumer tech distributor Aisidi

Read stories of Travel service providers, platforms or the trending of the travel industry.

Travel

This investment also marks JD.com's foray into the tourism industry, which is being hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com invests USD 63.5 million to gain 7.4% stake in tourism company Caissa | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com invests USD 63.5 million to gain 7.4% stake in tourism company Caissa

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.

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

IoV refers to vehicles communicating in real time with drivers, pedestrians, other vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and fleet management systems.

CHINA BRIEF | WeRide teams up with Gosuncn to apply IoV tech to autonomous vehicles | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | WeRide teams up with Gosuncn to apply IoV tech to autonomous vehicles

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

The Cadillac XT5 model starts at over USD 46,000, but Pinduoduo promises discounts of USD 14,000.

Song Jingli

Huawei’s HiSilicon topples Qualcomm as the top smartphone chip supplier in China

CHINA BRIEF | Supermarket chain backed by Tencent and JD.com reports nearly 40% increase in Q1 net profits

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial’s MYbank serves 20.9 million small and micro business in 2019, up 70% yearly

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba punishes Tmall president for damaging corporate image after affair allegations

CHINA BRIEF| Starbucks teams up with Sequoia Capital China to co-invest in beverage startups

CHINA BRIEF| Alibaba invests USD 57.5 million to gain 6% stake in consumer tech distributor Aisidi

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com invests USD 63.5 million to gain 7.4% stake in tourism company Caissa

CHINA BRIEF | WeRide teams up with Gosuncn to apply IoV tech to autonomous vehicles

Other than iPhones, Pinduoduo now wants you to buy Cadillacs