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

Alibaba

The platform will roll out a content creator center, and promises incomes of about USD 1,400 per month for its trendsetters.

Social commerce unicorn Xiaohongshu wants to monetize by driving revenues for its content creators | KrASIA

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Social commerce unicorn Xiaohongshu wants to monetize by driving revenues for its content creators

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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.

The platform has been deployed in powering various businesses within the Alibaba ecosystem.

Alibaba Cloud open-sources its machine learning algorithm platform Alink | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud open-sources its machine learning algorithm platform Alink

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

E-Commerce

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

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

The firm is not alone in seeking opportunities in the country's fast-growing mobile internet sector.

China's Shunwei hunts Chinese unicorns' counterparts in India | WISE New Economy Conference 2019 | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Shunwei hunts Chinese unicorns&#8217; counterparts in India | WISE New Economy Conference 2019

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

Half of the aided users are under 40 years old.

Ant Financial’s Xiang Hu Bao gains 100 million users, supporting about 12,000 patients | KrASIA

Ant Financial’s Xiang Hu Bao gains 100 million users, supporting about 12,000 patients

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 company now takes user engagement as the top priority over monetization, but difficulties remain ahead.

Five key challenges for China's Pinduoduo to gain a firm foothold in e-commerce sector | KrASIA

Five key challenges for China&#8217;s Pinduoduo to gain a firm foothold in e-commerce sector

In the next three years, Pinduoduo will introduce more than 10,000 international brands to its platform.

With 20,000 import goods, Pinduoduo wants to leverage Black Friday to lure consumers | KrASIA

With 20,000 import goods, Pinduoduo wants to leverage Black Friday to lure consumers

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

Users can monetize their influence by getting part of the sales commission fees.

ByteDance's Douyin integrates shopping feature to increase revenues | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin integrates shopping feature to increase revenues

Pinduoduo reached 536.3 million active buyers, up 39% year-on-year.

Despite widening losses, Pinduoduo continues to prioritize user engagement over monetization (updated) | KrASIA

Despite widening losses, Pinduoduo continues to prioritize user engagement over monetization (updated)

Alibaba now controls a 50% stake of the company.

Song Jingli

Social commerce unicorn Xiaohongshu wants to monetize by driving revenues for its content creators

Alibaba Cloud open-sources its machine learning algorithm platform Alink

China’s Shunwei hunts Chinese unicorns’ counterparts in India | WISE New Economy Conference 2019

Ant Financial’s Xiang Hu Bao gains 100 million users, supporting about 12,000 patients

Five key challenges for China’s Pinduoduo to gain a firm foothold in e-commerce sector

With 20,000 import goods, Pinduoduo wants to leverage Black Friday to lure consumers

ByteDance’s Douyin integrates shopping feature to increase revenues

Despite widening losses, Pinduoduo continues to prioritize user engagement over monetization (updated)

Alibaba’s latest move in new retail: Investing in milk delivery startup Tianxianpei