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Proponents and opponents of regulation both spurn South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt at compromise.

South Korea flounders in quest to restrain power of online platforms | KrASIA

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South Korea flounders in quest to restrain power of online platforms

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

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As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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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

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

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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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

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

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

Education

This formation links up with sentiments shared by the highest political office in the country.

Tencent Games leads new partnership to promote scientific education | KrASIA

Tencent Games leads new partnership to promote scientific education

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Luna Lin

Douyin

Tik Tok

ByteDance's Douyin app, which features 15-second videos and is known as TikTok outside of China, has started to allow a subset of users to share videos

Douyin tests long videos to win new users | KrASIA

Douyin tests long videos to win new users

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Song Jingli

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

online education

The company has been paving the way for this service in the past year.

ByteDance will reportedly launch a K–12 online education platform this summer | KrASIA

ByteDance will reportedly launch a K–12 online education platform this summer

game

ByteDance, currently considered the world's most valuable startup, has invested in another game publisher, a sign of its ambition in the gaming industry,

ByteDance invests in another game publisher | KrASIA

ByteDance invests in another game publisher

TikTok

China's ByteDance grossed an estimated US$75 million in revenue through selling virtual currency on its TikTok and Douyin.

Douyin/TikTok makes $75m from live-broadcasting | KrASIA

Douyin/TikTok makes $75m from live-broadcasting

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

Kuaishou

Kuai

live video

Short video

Kwai Concept's goal is very transparent - to lure more users from first and second-tier cities.

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin's core users | KrASIA

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin&#8217;s core users

live viedo

ByteDance is making moves to amp up revenues from its live broadcasting businesses

ByteDance shifts attention to live broadcasting business with its new centralised platform | KrASIA

ByteDance shifts attention to live broadcasting business with its new centralised platform

Mini-programmes could bolster the company's profits.

ByteDance makes mini-programmes easier to use, following Tencent's footstep | KrASIA

ByteDance makes mini-programmes easier to use, following Tencent&#8217;s footstep

video games

The buyout may buoy the profits of the world's most valuable startup.