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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

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Major Chinese tech companies have been vying for dominance in this booming market.

Pinduoduo unveils Knock app, entering booming workplace collaboration market | KrASIA

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Pinduoduo unveils Knock app, entering booming workplace collaboration market

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NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

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

Xiaomi

Electric Vehicles

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 new app is compatible with all Nio's models currently on sale.

CHINA BRIEF | Xiaomi users to control Nio's cars from their smartwatches | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Xiaomi users to control Nio&#8217;s cars from their smartwatches

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.

Robotics

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 will use the fresh capital for market expansion, research, and development of products.

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese robotic solution platform Encoo bags USD 30 million in Sequoia-led Series B round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese robotic solution platform Encoo bags USD 30 million in Sequoia-led Series B round

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

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. 

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

On-Demand Services

New retail, enterprise services, artificial intelligence, and capital management are other sectors included in the partnership.

CHINA BRIEF | Meituan partners with state-owned carrier China Telecom for 5G and IoT development | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Meituan partners with state-owned carrier China Telecom for 5G and IoT development

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

The fund will provide financial relief to drivers and food delivery couriers in Asia and Latin America.

CHINA BRIEF | Didi sets up USD 10 million relief fund for coronavirus-stricken drivers outside China | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Didi sets up USD 10 million relief fund for coronavirus-stricken drivers outside China

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

The firm focuses on the development of artificial meat made from bean protein.

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese artificial meat startup Starfield secures funds from investor of Beyond Meat | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese artificial meat startup Starfield secures funds from investor of Beyond Meat

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

Eight members of senior management have also left the company since July.

Oyo left with skeleton crew in China after massive layoffs | KrASIA

Oyo left with skeleton crew in China after massive layoffs

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

The automaker will start mass production of vehicles equipped with this system later this month.

CHINA BRIEF | State-owned Changan Automobile unveils level 3 self-driving system | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | State-owned Changan Automobile unveils level 3 self-driving system

Neolix has booked orders for nearly 300 autonomous vehicles since the beginning of 2020.