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Bilibili

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

China Tech

Content

Creative

Creator Economy

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

Entertainment

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

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

Video

Gaming and ad growth help Bilibili hit a profit, but sustaining this trajectory could be challenging.

Bilibili hits profitability milestone but faces big questions about its staying power | KrASIA

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Bilibili hits profitability milestone but faces big questions about its staying power

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

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Podium nets Series A1 funding, Gyges Labs backed to redefine wearables, xAI raises USD 5 billion, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Podium nets Series A1 funding, Gyges Labs backed to redefine wearables, xAI raises USD 5 billion, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

Alibaba

Taobao

Tmall

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

E-Commerce

The integration aims to enhance cross-border commerce and streamline operations, with Jiang Fan leading the newly consolidated division.

Alibaba unites domestic and global e-commerce operations in major overhaul | KrASIA

Alibaba unites domestic and global e-commerce operations in major overhaul

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

KrASIA | Apple Archives

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

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

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

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

Think that's high? The rate goes up to 50% for app stores in China, the world's largest Android market.

Google to enforce 30% cut from app developers | KrASIA

Google to enforce 30% cut from app developers

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

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Smartphones

Apple started assembling low-cost iPhones in the country in 2017 with Wistron.

Apple's contract manufacturers to invest USD 900 million to ramp up production in India | KrASIA

Apple&#8217;s contract manufacturers to invest USD 900 million to ramp up production in India

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Samsung

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

Xiaomi

Samsung led the premium smartphone segment with a 37% market share in the first half of 2020.

Samsung and OnePlus gear up for a fight as competition intensifies in India's premium smartphone segment | KrASIA

Samsung and OnePlus gear up for a fight as competition intensifies in India&#8217;s premium smartphone segment

health

health promotion board

Healthtech

physical activity

Smart Nation

Users can earn rewards worth up to USD 280 through LumiHealth, a health initiative that requires an Apple Watch and app download.

Apple partners with Singapore government to offer rewards for physical activity | KrASIA

Apple partners with Singapore government to offer rewards for physical activity

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Yin Lin Tan

Apple's market share dropped from Q4 2019's 41% to Q2 2020's 35%.

Budget Chinese wireless earbuds erode Apple Airpod dominance | KrASIA

Budget Chinese wireless earbuds erode Apple Airpod dominance

While Huawei's sales also declined year-over-year, it experienced 27.4% quarterly growth, moving it into a virtual tie with Samsung for the place of world's top smartphone manufacturer.

Global smartphone sales drop 20% in Q2: Report | KrASIA

Global smartphone sales drop 20% in Q2: Report

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Gozde Celik

Game developers in China and around the world are caught between the legal altercation involving Epic, Apple, and Google.

Epic-Apple dispute hurts games powered by Unreal Engine, including PUBG Mobile | KrASIA

Epic-Apple dispute hurts games powered by Unreal Engine, including PUBG Mobile

Deep Tech

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

Enterprise Services

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

Yungongchang, which was founded in 2015, is a SaaS provider that helps companies find mechanical and electronic parts directly from factories.

CHINA BRIEF | Foxconn-backed B2B procurement platform closes USD 14.4 million Series B | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Foxconn-backed B2B procurement platform closes USD 14.4 million Series B

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Song Jingli

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.

Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology has been locked in a legal battle with Apple over the Siri voice assistant system since 2012.

Apple rebuffs USD 1.4 billion patent lawsuit filed by Chinese AI company | KrASIA

Apple rebuffs USD 1.4 billion patent lawsuit filed by Chinese AI company

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