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KrASIA Daily: World's 3rd-largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Huobi to Incubate Blockchain Startups Worldwide

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

Plus, Go-Jek provides micro-credit program to take on Grab Financial. Ola and Uber drivers in India are expected to go on a strike today.

KrASIA Daily: World's 3rd-largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Huobi to Incubate Blockchain Startups Worldwide | KrASIA

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KrASIA Daily: World&#8217;s 3rd-largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Huobi to Incubate Blockchain Startups Worldwide

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

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I'm Xiaochun with KrASIA [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Xiaochun Zhao

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

Alibaba

Plus, WeChat Pay will be available to pay for ComfortDelGro Taxis. Amazon Japan had been raided by regulators.

KrASIA Daily: Alibaba to Relist in China This Summer | KrASIA

KrASIA Daily: Alibaba to Relist in China This Summer

Tencent Establishes Robotics X Lab, Mapping out Plan for Tencent AI Lab

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.

Chief researcher at MSR is likely to resign from Microsoft to work for Robotics X.

Tencent Establishes Robotics X Lab, Mapping out Plan for Tencent AI Lab | KrASIA

Qu Toutiao, or Fun Headlines, mulls an IPO in the US as soon as this year.

Deals | Tencent Leads News Aggregator Qu Toutiao’s USD 100 Million+ Pre-IPO Round | KrASIA

Deals | Tencent Leads News Aggregator Qu Toutiao’s USD 100 Million+ Pre-IPO Round

KrASIA Daily: China's News Aggregator Fun Headlines Seeks US IPO at $3 Billion Value

Plus, Singtel Innov8 invests in AI for IT operations startup Moogsoft.  Walmart mulls to become Flipkart's largest shareholder. 

KrASIA Daily: China's News Aggregator Fun Headlines Seeks US IPO at $3 Billion Value | KrASIA

KrASIA Daily: China&#8217;s News Aggregator Fun Headlines Seeks US IPO at $3 Billion Value

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

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

Plus, Ofo raised USD 866 million in a round led by Alibaba. WhatsApp mulls a payment service in India.

KrASIA Daily: Grab Launches Fintech Platform to Provide Loans and Insurance | KrASIA

KrASIA Daily: Grab Launches Fintech Platform to Provide Loans and Insurance

The deal marks the biggest investment in China’s bike-sharing startups to date.

Deals | Alibaba Leads Ofo’s $866 Million Round, Upping Competition with Tencent-backed Rival Mobike | KrASIA

Deals | Alibaba Leads Ofo’s $866 Million Round, Upping Competition with Tencent-backed Rival Mobike

Plus, SGX to Loosen Restrictions on IPOs. Uber is seeking a $1.25 billion loan.

KrASIA Daily: Top Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Offers $ 250K Bounty For Arrest of Hackers | KrASIA

KrASIA Daily: Top Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Offers $ 250K Bounty For Arrest of Hackers

China’s most valuable independent startup Toutiao was courted by Alibaba amid growing Tencent-Toutiao feud

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

The company was on a shopping spree last year, acquiring Musical.ly, News Republic and Flipgram.

Xiaochun Zhao

KrASIA Daily: World’s 3rd-largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Huobi to Incubate Blockchain Startups Worldwide

KrASIA Daily: Alibaba to Relist in China This Summer

Tencent Establishes Robotics X Lab, Mapping out Plan for Tencent AI Lab

Deals | Tencent Leads News Aggregator Qu Toutiao’s USD 100 Million+ Pre-IPO Round

KrASIA Daily: China’s News Aggregator Fun Headlines Seeks US IPO at $3 Billion Value

KrASIA Daily: Grab Launches Fintech Platform to Provide Loans and Insurance

Deals | Alibaba Leads Ofo’s $866 Million Round, Upping Competition with Tencent-backed Rival Mobike

KrASIA Daily: Top Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Offers $ 250K Bounty For Arrest of Hackers

China’s Toutiao to Further Beef up Global Presence in 2018