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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

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.

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

Fashion

The global beauty and personal care product market is expected to hit USD 756.63 billion by 2026.

Chinese tech companies bring virtual makeup systems to support cosmetics retailers hit by COVID-19 pandemic | KrASIA

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Chinese tech companies bring virtual makeup systems to support cosmetics retailers hit by COVID-19 pandemic

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

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Song Jingli

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

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

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

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

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

E-Commerce

The move comes after major tech companies like Tencent, Ant Financial, and Meituan have all launched similar platforms.

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com launches mini program platform targeting 270,000 third-party merchants | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com launches mini program platform targeting 270,000 third-party merchants

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

Over 240 million users have bought agricultural products on Pinduoduo last year, amounting to USD 19.3 billion in sales.

Pinduoduo to invest USD 7 billion in rural areas in next five years | KrASIA

Pinduoduo to invest USD 7 billion in rural areas in next five years

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

The company said its 1.4% quarterly revenue increase is in line with expectations.

Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Huawei posts slower revenue growth in Q1 | KrASIA

Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Huawei posts slower revenue growth in Q1

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

Alibaba

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

China Tech

The investment will help businesses speed up digital transformation to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba Cloud to invest USD 28 billion in cloud infrastructure | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba Cloud to invest USD 28 billion in cloud infrastructure

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

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

Transportation

The company is also testing robotaxi services in Beijing and Cangzhou, a city in North China's Hebei province.

CHINA BRIEF | Baidu opens robotaxi services to residents in Changsha | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Baidu opens robotaxi services to residents in Changsha

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

Equator Pure Nature's products are derived from a pineapple fermentation process rather than petrochemicals.

This Thai natural household cleaning products firm eyes fivefold sales increase in China | KrASIA

This Thai natural household cleaning products firm eyes fivefold sales increase in China

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

Entertainment

The share price of Ruhnn, the celebrity incubator also involved in the scandal, dived 6.3%.

Affair allegations involving senior Alibaba exec lead to misconduct speculations | KrASIA

Affair allegations involving senior Alibaba exec lead to misconduct speculations

Pinduoduo will subscribe to USD 200 million in convertible bonds to be issued by Gome as part of the partnership.