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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

How Chinese payments pioneer Lakala lost the battle against the rising tide of WeChat Pay and Alipay | KrASIA

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How Chinese payments pioneer Lakala lost the battle against the rising tide of WeChat Pay and Alipay

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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

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. 

Short Video

Its first video got 400,000 likes in just a few hours.

Chinese foreign ministry gains more than half a million followers on its first day on Douyin | KrASIA

Chinese foreign ministry gains more than half a million followers on its first day on Douyin

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

Most app removal requests came from Beijing. Apple rejected only one.

Apple removed 517 apps from its Chinese App Store in the second half of last year | KrASIA

Apple removed 517 apps from its Chinese App Store in the second half of last year

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

Xiaomi

The acquisition will improve Tiger Brokers profitability.

Xiaomi-backed Tiger Brokers is getting itself a US clearing license via acquisition | KrASIA

Xiaomi-backed Tiger Brokers is getting itself a US clearing license via acquisition

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

Transportation

This time it's looking to welcome international investors.

Baidu-backed WM Motor seeking up to USD 1 billion in new funds, says founder | KrASIA

Baidu-backed WM Motor seeking up to USD 1 billion in new funds, says founder

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

Alibaba

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

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

While Tencent is chasing domestic carmakers, its major competitor Alibaba holds out olive branches to foreign auto giants.

Tencent forms strategic partnership with carmaker Dongfeng Motor | KrASIA

Tencent forms strategic partnership with carmaker Dongfeng Motor

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

Sellers want to be able to sell on multiple platforms without fearing sanctions.

Chinese home appliance makers call for an end to unfair competition practices among e-commerce platforms | KrASIA

Chinese home appliance makers call for an end to unfair competition practices among e-commerce platforms

Shanghaiers are having fun with a new waste-classification mini program on Alipay | KrASIA

Shanghaiers are having fun with a new waste-classification mini program on Alipay

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. 

The company now holds more more than 87,000 patents worldwide.