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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

Home

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

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

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&#8217;s core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

KrASIA | Bytedance Archives

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

Alibaba

Baidu

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

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

Tiktok

Xpeng

Visual Stories

Take a look at this year's significant technology and business developments with KrASIA.

TECH PANO | 2020 and the future in the words of China's tech titans | KrASIA

TECH PANO | 2020 and the future in the words of China&#8217;s tech titans

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Julianna Wu

Douyin

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

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

Retail

The retail giant announced in September that it intended to purchase 7.5% of the new TikTok Global.

Walmart introduces TikTok livestreaming shows to US shoppers | KrASIA

Walmart introduces TikTok livestreaming shows to US shoppers

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Song Jingli

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

Didi

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

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

Microsoft

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

Entertainment

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

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

The area is the hometown of Chinese unicorns like ByteDance, Xiaomi, Didi, and Meituan.

How Zhongguancun became the innovation hub powering China's tech aspirations | KrASIA

How Zhongguancun became the innovation hub powering China&#8217;s tech aspirations

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

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.

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

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

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

The fresh investment would value ByteDance at USD 180 billion.

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR | KrASIA

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Music

Resso offers a freemium service, with a monthly ad-free subscription for IDR 49,000 or USD 3.27.

Google honors ByteDance’s Resso as one of Android's best apps in 2020 | KrASIA

Google honors ByteDance’s Resso as one of Android&#8217;s best apps in 2020

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Ursula Florene

Video

Singapore

Bigo is not for sale, an insider tells 36Kr.

A Bigo VP has left over short-video app Likee's sluggish monetization growth: Report | KrASIA

A Bigo VP has left over short-video app Likee&#8217;s sluggish monetization growth: Report

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

Kuaishou

Douyin Huoshan and Douyin have more than 600 million daily active users.

Former Didi executive joins ByteDance's Douyin Huoshan | KrASIA

Former Didi executive joins ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin Huoshan

Latecomers have to be able to endure large-scale losses, says Haitong's Natalie Wu.

ByteDance and Kuaishou venture into China's red-hot group-buying sector | KrASIA

ByteDance and Kuaishou venture into China&#8217;s red-hot group-buying sector

Platforms need to assign content moderators for every 50 online livestreaming channels.

Bytedance

TECH PANO | 2020 and the future in the words of China’s tech titans

Walmart introduces TikTok livestreaming shows to US shoppers

How Zhongguancun became the innovation hub powering China’s tech aspirations

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR

Google honors ByteDance’s Resso as one of Android’s best apps in 2020

A Bigo VP has left over short-video app Likee’s sluggish monetization growth: Report

Former Didi executive joins ByteDance’s Douyin Huoshan

ByteDance and Kuaishou venture into China’s red-hot group-buying sector

China blocks teens, unverified users from spending on livestreaming apps

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