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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

Alibaba's platforms Koubei, Ele.me, and Juhuasuan will be soon interconnected.

Alibaba brings on-demand lifestyle services to Juhuasuan to take on Meituan | KrASIA

Alibaba brings on-demand lifestyle services to Juhuasuan to take on Meituan

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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

Live Streaming

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

Dominance of Youku, iQiyi and Tencent Video adds to film industry’s “cold winter,” a state newspaper says.

Are video streaming platforms killing film studios in China? | KrASIA

Are video streaming platforms killing film studios in China?

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

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

Entertainment

The Japanese games company partners with Tencent to clear regulatory hurdles.

Nintendo to market Switch console in China | KrASIA

Nintendo to market Switch console in China

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

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

Kuaishou

Tencent would own 20% of Kuaishou after the completion of the deal.

Tencent leads Kuaishou’s USD 3 billion pre-IPO round with Jack Ma-backed Yunfeng Capital in tow | KrASIA

Tencent leads Kuaishou’s USD 3 billion pre-IPO round with Jack Ma-backed Yunfeng Capital in tow

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

The platform will roll out a content creator center, and promises incomes of about USD 1,400 per month for its trendsetters.

Social commerce unicorn Xiaohongshu wants to monetize by driving revenues for its content creators | KrASIA

Social commerce unicorn Xiaohongshu wants to monetize by driving revenues for its content creators

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.

The platform has been deployed in powering various businesses within the Alibaba ecosystem.

Alibaba Cloud open-sources its machine learning algorithm platform Alink | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud open-sources its machine learning algorithm platform Alink

The e-commerce giant is enabling more companies to become digital, data-driven enterprises.

‘Cloud infrastructure is critical to the future of society’ and Alibaba wants to play its part, says CEO Daniel Zhang | KrASIA

‘Cloud infrastructure is critical to the future of society’ and Alibaba wants to play its part, says CEO Daniel Zhang

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SCMP

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

E-Commerce

Asia’s most valuable company raised USD 12.9 billion in the biggest IPO globally this year.

Alibaba shares rise in Hong Kong market debut after completing biggest IPO in 2019 | KrASIA

Alibaba shares rise in Hong Kong market debut after completing biggest IPO in 2019

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

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

Paytm

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

Paytm is now valued at USD 16 billion, making it one of the most valued Asian startups.

SoftBank participates in USD 1 billion round in Indian fintech decacorn Paytm | KrASIA

SoftBank participates in USD 1 billion round in Indian fintech decacorn Paytm

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