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

China Tech

Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

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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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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

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.

Deep Tech

Artificial intelligence

To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools | KrASIA

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

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

Video

TikTok's CEO spoke at the APEC event in Latin America, where the app's user base is growing rapidly.

TikTok wants to become "most trusted" company as US ban looms | KrASIA

TikTok wants to become &#8220;most trusted&#8221; company as US ban looms

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

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

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

Xiaomi

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

Electric Vehicles

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

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 move follows EV maker Li Auto's strong Nasdaq debut.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba-backed EV maker Xpeng Motors to kick off USD 700 million US IPO | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba-backed EV maker Xpeng Motors to kick off USD 700 million US IPO

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Song Jingli

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

Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance all covet Baidu's search business.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba's intelligent search app Quark releases content product ZVideo | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba&#8217;s intelligent search app Quark releases content product ZVideo

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

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

E-Commerce

Over 1,000 shops that buy goods on Lingshoutong have made more than RMB 1 million (USD 142,686) in net profits.

Mom-and-pop stores beat 11% of Chinese listed companies in profitability | KrASIA

Mom-and-pop stores beat 11% of Chinese listed companies in profitability

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

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

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

Food Delivery

Wang Xing, founder and chairman of Meituan, seemed to call out Alibaba on social media over the fact Taobao users cannot pay with WeChat.

CHINA BRIEF | Meituan removes Alipay for payments as chairman calls out Alibaba | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Meituan removes Alipay for payments as chairman calls out Alibaba

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

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

Ant Group eyes the largest IPO of 2020 with a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world's most valuable startup that emerged from China's online payment competition | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world&#8217;s most valuable startup that emerged from China&#8217;s online payment competition

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Julianna Wu

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

The Duoduo Pifa wholesaling feature is similar to Alibaba's 1688 platform, which is the country's largest online platform for businesses to procure goods.

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo to launch wholesaling feature to take on Alibaba | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo to launch wholesaling feature to take on Alibaba

Shopline, said to be Asia’s largest e-commerce enabler, has so far helped more than 200,000 merchants, mostly in Hong Kong and Taiwan, start new online stores.

Alibaba-backed Shopline helps thousands of Hong Kong entrepreneurs set up online as pandemic spurs e-commerce | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed Shopline helps thousands of Hong Kong entrepreneurs set up online as pandemic spurs e-commerce

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South China Morning Post

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Building local servers expand the market pool for cloud providers.

In Indonesia's cloud war, Google and Alibaba are one step ahead of competitors | KrASIA

In Indonesia&#8217;s cloud war, Google and Alibaba are one step ahead of competitors

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Ursula Florene

Edtech

COVID-19

Taobao

taobao education

Alibaba throws its weight behind the online education industry. 

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei | KrASIA

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei

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Alibaba

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba-backed EV maker Xpeng Motors to kick off USD 700 million US IPO

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba’s intelligent search app Quark releases content product ZVideo

Mom-and-pop stores beat 11% of Chinese listed companies in profitability

CHINA BRIEF | Meituan removes Alipay for payments as chairman calls out Alibaba

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world’s most valuable startup that emerged from China’s online payment competition

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo to launch wholesaling feature to take on Alibaba

Alibaba-backed Shopline helps thousands of Hong Kong entrepreneurs set up online as pandemic spurs e-commerce

In Indonesia’s cloud war, Google and Alibaba are one step ahead of competitors

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei

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