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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

Tiktok

Content

Creative

Creator Economy

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

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

TikTok

Banning TikTok is unlikely to address wider concerns regarding data harvesting and trading.

Why a TikTok ban will do little to protect user privacy | KrASIA

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Why a TikTok ban will do little to protect user privacy

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

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Jeff Chay

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

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

India

Indonesia

Japan

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: HD, WasteX, and Viruma secure funding, Animoca Brands invests in Xion, 14 China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: HD, WasteX, and Viruma secure funding, Animoca Brands invests in Xion, 14 China and India deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

GoTo

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Malaysia

Vietnam

funding

startup

Startups

Tied to the fortunes of SoftBank's Vision Fund, the tech sector must now sink or swim.

From Grab to GoTo, Southeast Asia's startups weather funding winter | KrASIA

From Grab to GoTo, Southeast Asia&#8217;s startups weather funding winter

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

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

KrASIA | Blockchain Archives

Fintech

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

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

China Tech

Digital Banks

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.

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

ant group

Under the new structure, Ant International, OceanBase, and Ant Digital Technologies will function as independent subsidiaries.

Ant Group names new president and spins off three businesses in major restructuring | KrASIA

Ant Group names new president and spins off three businesses in major restructuring

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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The Kompas Gramedia unit sees promise in using blockchain technology to defend intellectual property.

Indonesian book giant turns to tech to fight piracy | KrASIA

Indonesian book giant turns to tech to fight piracy

Cryptocurrencies

In theory, account abstraction offers benefits like social recovery, role-based access control, batch transactions, and more. But how feasible is its implementation?

Is account abstraction the key to mass crypto adoption? | KrASIA

Is account abstraction the key to mass crypto adoption?

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Amber Group

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

Alibaba

Metaverse

Digital avatars stole the show at the 19th Asian Games recently held in Hangzhou, China, sparking a new wave of interest and innovation.

Digital torchbearers reignite interest in virtual avatars at the Asian Games in Hangzhou | KrASIA

Digital torchbearers reignite interest in virtual avatars at the Asian Games in Hangzhou

Onboarding new users to Web3 still requires work, encompassing initiatives like social recovery, user-friendly wallets, and greater regulatory clarity.

Six key takeaways about crypto and Web3 from TOKEN2049 Singapore | KrASIA

Six key takeaways about crypto and Web3 from TOKEN2049 Singapore

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Gideon Ng

Brewer employs blockchain technology to create sake NFTs.

Whisky used to back long-term loans to Japanese distiller | KrASIA

Whisky used to back long-term loans to Japanese distiller

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Web3

The Singapore-based Web3 gaming startup has announced its partnership with BNB Chain as part of the latter’s third-year anniversary celebrations.

Ethlas partners with BNB Chain to break new frontiers in Web3 gaming | KrASIA

Ethlas partners with BNB Chain to break new frontiers in Web3 gaming

Ethereum doesn't have the most active users anymore, so how has it retained its number one standing among L1 blockchains?

Can any Layer-1 blockchain overtake Ethereum? | KrASIA

Can any Layer-1 blockchain overtake Ethereum?

The system would link Japan, India, China, and Southeast Asia using Cambodia's digital currency.