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

China Tech

When unicorns lose their magic: Royole shows steep path for China IPOs. Startups cancel listings in face of crushing competition from big players.

When unicorns lose their magic: Royole shows steep path for China IPOs | KrASIA

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When unicorns lose their magic: Royole shows steep path for China IPOs

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

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Investors

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Investment

Private Equity

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

SoftBank's Son turns defensive in face of record USD 16 billion loss. Group vows to scale back new investments after tech sell-off hits its portfolio.

SoftBank's Son turns defensive in face of record USD 16 billion loss | KrASIA

SoftBank&#8217;s Son turns defensive in face of record USD 16 billion loss

Honor

Smartphones

China's Honor bets on growth abroad despite smartphone slowdown. CEO says foldable phone market will grow "five to ten times" by 2023.

China's Honor bets on growth abroad despite smartphone slowdown | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Honor bets on growth abroad despite smartphone slowdown

Electric Vehicles

China's EV investment drive risks veering into overcapacity. Factory usage could fall below 50% once new factories come online.

China's EV investment drive risks veering into overcapacity | KrASIA

China&#8217;s EV investment drive risks veering into overcapacity

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Cambodia builds up EV infrastructure to speed electric ambitions. Aim is for 40% of cars and urban buses, 70% of motorbikes to be electric by 2050.

Cambodia builds up EV infrastructure to supercharge electric ambitions | KrASIA

Cambodia builds up EV infrastructure to supercharge electric ambitions

krasia ai artificial intelligence machine learning

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.

SoftBank to bring big data to small business with USD 40 forecasting. The service predicts customer traffic with AI analysis of location and weather data.

SoftBank to bring big data to small business with USD 40 forecasting | KrASIA

SoftBank to bring big data to small business with USD 40 forecasting

Baidu

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

Mobility

Ditch the driver: U.S. and China race to make self-driving taxis a reality. As Baidu takes to Beijing streets, Waymo and Cruise fear falling behind.

Ditch the driver: US and China race to make self-driving taxis a reality | KrASIA

Ditch the driver: US and China race to make self-driving taxis a reality

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

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

2C2P aims beyond Southeast Asia with Ant Group investment. Majority stake gives Ant access to large regional retailers and airlines.

2C2P aims beyond Southeast Asia with Ant Group investment | KrASIA

2C2P aims beyond Southeast Asia with Ant Group investment

Japan, Korea, and the West

China and South Korea tech deals slump amid Ukraine war woes. Russia's invasion creates headwinds for Asian M&As.

Nikkei Asia

When unicorns lose their magic: Royole shows steep path for China IPOs

SoftBank’s Son turns defensive in face of record USD 16 billion loss

China’s Honor bets on growth abroad despite smartphone slowdown

China’s EV investment drive risks veering into overcapacity

Cambodia builds up EV infrastructure to supercharge electric ambitions

SoftBank to bring big data to small business with USD 40 forecasting

Ditch the driver: US and China race to make self-driving taxis a reality

2C2P aims beyond Southeast Asia with Ant Group investment

China and South Korea tech deals slump amid Ukraine war woes