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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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

China Tech

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Japan, Korea, and the West

Deep Tech

Smartphones

Mate 70 users will get an early look at HarmonyOS Next, Huawei’s new Android-free operating system.

Huawei’s Mate 70 targets Apple with competitive pricing and new OS | KrASIA

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Huawei’s Mate 70 targets Apple with competitive pricing and new OS

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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CATL, short for Contemporary Amperex Technology, is a Chinese company specializing in lithium-ion battery production for electric vehicles, energy storage, and battery management systems.

CATL

Battery

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

CATL targets heavy-duty transport with its new Tianxing batteries, boasting breakthroughs in range, charging speed, and durability.

CATL launches advanced battery lineup to electrify heavy-duty vehicles | KrASIA

CATL launches advanced battery lineup to electrify heavy-duty vehicles

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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36Kr English

Creative

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

Offline gaming on the Switch will remain unaffected, though Nintendo’s focus seems to be shifting toward its next-generation console.

Nintendo to end online services for Chinese Switch users by 2026 | KrASIA

Nintendo to end online services for Chinese Switch users by 2026

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.

KrASIA | Alibaba Archives

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

E-Commerce

Social Impact

The new measures are partly a response to the company's controversial workplace culture.

Alibaba stops showing job level in internal communications to create more equal workplace | KrASIA

Alibaba stops showing job level in internal communications to create more equal workplace

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

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

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

Entertainment

Sports in China have seen skyrocketing online viewership, creating new opportunities for digital giants to woo fans and turn them into customers.

As sports in China gain viewers, these five platforms make billions | KrASIA

As sports in China gain viewers, these five platforms make billions

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AJ Cortese

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

On-Demand Services

Alibaba will be the biggest shareholder of the beauty service provider after the deal.

On-demand beauty service platform Helijia secures funding from Alibaba | KrASIA

On-demand beauty service platform Helijia secures funding from Alibaba

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

Paytm

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

Indian technology companies have been trying to distance themselves from their Chinese backers amidst the ongoing political tension.

Ant Group's IPO documents indicate its joint control in Indian payments firm Paytm | KrASIA

Ant Group&#8217;s IPO documents indicate its joint control in Indian payments firm Paytm

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

Okki CRM software will be updated to automatically detect sales clues on alibaba.com, and to allow easier import of product information.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba invests in trade-focused CRM software maker Okki | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba invests in trade-focused CRM software maker Okki

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Song Jingli

Jack Ma's new charity donation, USD 600 million

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

Ma is the biggest individual shareholder of Ant Group.

KEY STAT | Jack Ma to donate 22% of his Ant Group stake to charity | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Jack Ma to donate 22% of his Ant Group stake to charity

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Julianna Wu

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

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

Visual Stories

The firm has greater ambitions than just being the operator behind payment platform Alipay.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Ant Group to launch what could be the world's biggest IPO soon | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Ant Group to launch what could be the world&#8217;s biggest IPO soon

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

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

e-commerce in China

plastic waste

sustainability

By 2025, the country's e-commerce sector is projected to generate 41.3 million tonnes of plastic waste, but efforts are being made.

Can the Chinese e-commerce sector solve its waste problem?  | KrASIA

Can the Chinese e-commerce sector solve its waste problem? 

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Gozde Celik

The biggest investments in China of the decade

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

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

Didi

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.

Investment

The paradox of big guys getting big cheques hands-down while financing in general is getting harder to come by in China.