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

China Tech

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

Xiaomi

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

xiaomi

The smartphone maker hopes to turn the 'Apple Car' idea into reality.

China's Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto | KrASIA

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China&#8217;s Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto

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

KrASIA

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Chery

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

The Chinese automaker is banking on the new brand to change its fortunes in the NEV market.

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end | KrASIA

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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The decade-old "Oriental Leaf Tea" remained Nongfu Spring's driving force in 2023, spearheading the company's growth.

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash | KrASIA

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash

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

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

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

QR code payments are already widely popular in China, and Apple adoption could help it catch on elsewhere.

Apple Pay could add QR code payments to iOS 14, similar to China’s WeChat and Alipay | KrASIA

Apple Pay could add QR code payments to iOS 14, similar to China’s WeChat and Alipay

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

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

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

Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

Temasek

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

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

Zomato

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

Social Impact

Seven out of the top 20 most-downloaded apps in India in 2020 are on the list.

India just banned 59 Chinese apps, including some of country's most popular | KrASIA

India just banned 59 Chinese apps, including some of country&#8217;s most popular

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

App Clips, coming with iOS 14, are designed to let users complete a quick task in seconds. Courtesy of Apple via South China Morning Post.

Apple’s next iPhone operating system will introduce App Clips, a new feature similar to WeChat’s mini programs.

iOS 14 adds Apple’s answer to WeChat’s most powerful feature | KrASIA

iOS 14 adds Apple’s answer to WeChat’s most powerful feature

Deep Tech

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

Arm-based chipset to be produced by TSMC, sources say.

Apple to replace Intel processors for Macs with in-house chips | KrASIA

Apple to replace Intel processors for Macs with in-house chips

Last year, China contributed USD 246 billion to Apple's App Store sales.

CHINA BRIEF | Apple to take down thousands of unauthorized games from Chinese App Store | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Apple to take down thousands of unauthorized games from Chinese App Store

Edtech

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

The Swift Student Challenge brings together young coders worldwide to show off their skills.

12-year-old programmer in Hong Kong tackles Apple’s first student coding contest | KrASIA

12-year-old programmer in Hong Kong tackles Apple’s first student coding contest

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

Didi

Life can be problematic in China without a smartphone.

I've lost my phone, now what? | KrASIA

I&#8217;ve lost my phone, now what?

Facial Recognition

Apple identified the Face ID problem and provided a workaround in their latest iOS 13.5 software update.

Apple's newest update lets you unlock your phone easily when wearing a mask | KrASIA

Apple&#8217;s newest update lets you unlock your phone easily when wearing a mask

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Vulcan Post

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

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

Shunned in the West, the QR code underpins China’s cashless economy and coronavirus tracing efforts. Now it could be part of Apple’s new Gobi AR app.

Apple

Apple Pay could add QR code payments to iOS 14, similar to China’s WeChat and Alipay

India just banned 59 Chinese apps, including some of country’s most popular

iOS 14 adds Apple’s answer to WeChat’s most powerful feature

Apple to replace Intel processors for Macs with in-house chips

CHINA BRIEF | Apple to take down thousands of unauthorized games from Chinese App Store

12-year-old programmer in Hong Kong tackles Apple’s first student coding contest

I’ve lost my phone, now what?

Apple’s newest update lets you unlock your phone easily when wearing a mask

China’s beloved QR code may make a global comeback through Apple

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