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

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An analysis reveals the limited impact of US tech curbs on consumer products.

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Fashion

Retail

Anta's multi-brand approach is driving revenue growth, positioning Descente as the next breakout brand after Fila.

From Fila to Descente: How Anta’s global play is reshaping the sportswear market | KrASIA

From Fila to Descente: How Anta’s global play is reshaping the sportswear market

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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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

Indonesia

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Happy5 acquires SugarOKR, EDBI backs Arta Finance, Xendit’s XenCapital secures credit facility from Helicap, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Happy5 acquires SugarOKR, EDBI backs Arta Finance, Xendit’s XenCapital secures credit facility from Helicap, and more

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

Alibaba

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

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1688 president Yu Yong. Image source: China (Hangzhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Area

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

China’s largest domestic wholesale marketplace is now moving to serve cross-border demands.

Where does 1688 fit into Alibaba’s e-commerce game plan? | KrASIA

Where does 1688 fit into Alibaba’s e-commerce game plan?

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Alibaba Cloud's upcoming hackathon in Singapore will reward participants who can create innovative AI applications.

Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March

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.

Cloud

Alibaba Cloud's EBITA for Q4 2023 rose despite experiencing a dip in revenue.

Alibaba Cloud is accelerating its reform to achieve profitability this year | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud is accelerating its reform to achieve profitability this year

Taobao

Tmall

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

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

On-Demand Services

E-commerce

new retail

Whether Alibaba sells those businesses or not, it's growingly evident that the Chinese tech giant is shifting its focus from new retail back to e-commerce.

Alibaba considers divesting from Intime, Freshippo, and RT-Mart to refocus on e-commerce | KrASIA

Alibaba considers divesting from Intime, Freshippo, and RT-Mart to refocus on e-commerce

Photo of Jack Ma, co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group.

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

Enterprise Services

Jack Ma

Joseph Tsai and Jack Ma recently acquired a hefty chunk of Alibaba's stocks, emerging as the largest shareholders. Market observers are left pondering the significance of this power move.

Was Jack Ma “buying the dip” in Alibaba, or is there something more? | KrASIA

Was Jack Ma “buying the dip” in Alibaba, or is there something more?

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.

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ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

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Ele.me

In a message to all employees, Yu Yongfu, CEO of Ele.me, sought to quash the rumors before they escalate further.

Ele.me CEO Yu Yongfu addresses rumors of potential acquisition by ByteDance’s Douyin | KrASIA

Ele.me CEO Yu Yongfu addresses rumors of potential acquisition by ByteDance’s Douyin

GoTo

Lazada

Sea Group

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Shopee

Tiktok

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

Malaysia

Philippines

Thailand

Vietnam

TikTok

Several contenders exist, but the verdict on the future leader of Southeast Asia's e-commerce market remains pending.

Southeast Asian e-commerce: TikTok disrupts the market, Shopee and Lazada navigate defensive dilemmas | KrASIA

Southeast Asian e-commerce: TikTok disrupts the market, Shopee and Lazada navigate defensive dilemmas

To categorize the recent layoffs merely as a cost-cutting measure might risk oversimplifying the more nuanced strategy that Alibaba is implementing at Lazada.