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

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

KrASIA

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

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

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

The fast-spreading virus has infected over 9,600 people and claimed 213 lives in China.

Chinese tech giants open cloud computing technology to researchers amid coronavirus emergency | KrASIA

Chinese tech giants open cloud computing technology to researchers amid coronavirus emergency

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Sun Henan

The two tech giants have been quietly researching genetics for years, which might now be put to good use.

Alibaba and Baidu offer AI gene sequencing tools to help fight the China coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

Alibaba and Baidu offer AI gene sequencing tools to help fight the China coronavirus outbreak

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

On-Demand Services

Chinese companies have also pledged funds and resources to support medical staff.

China’s Ele.me to deliver food from 100 restaurants to frontline medical staff in Wuhan amid coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

China’s Ele.me to deliver food from 100 restaurants to frontline medical staff in Wuhan amid coronavirus outbreak

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SCMP

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

E-Commerce

Visual Stories

Short-video apps are taking over Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent as the biggest spenders on the holiday campaign.

Infographic | Internet giants are giving away RMB 10 billion this Lunar New Year | KrASIA

Infographic | Internet giants are giving away RMB 10 billion this Lunar New Year

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Julianna Wu

Alibaba has been trying to tap into India’s rapidly growing mobile-first users.

Alibaba forays in Indian social e-commerce market with Yoli | KrASIA

Alibaba forays in Indian social e-commerce market with Yoli

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

The government has ordered people in Wuhan to wear masks in public spaces.

Amid Wuhan virus outbreak, Alibaba says it has only 46.1 million masks in stock(updated) | KrASIA

Amid Wuhan virus outbreak, Alibaba says it has only 46.1 million masks in stock(updated)

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Song Jingli

Q&amp;A

"Lazada is in Southeast Asia to stay," said chief strategy officer Magnus Ekbom.

Lazada's chief strategist on dominating Southeast Asian e-commerce in the long run | KrASIA

Lazada&#8217;s chief strategist on dominating Southeast Asian e-commerce in the long run

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Thu Huong Le

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

Didi

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.

ele.me

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

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

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

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

Ride-hailing

Companies have taken a series of measures to contain the illness.

How Chinese tech companies are responding to the coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

How Chinese tech companies are responding to the coronavirus outbreak

Institutional investors tout market size for corporate training in China.