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Korea

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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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

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

ByteDance to sell securities business as regulatory walls close in. China’s tech firms wanted to step up financial services, but that dream is gone.

ByteDance to sell securities business as regulatory walls close in | KrASIA

ByteDance to sell securities business as regulatory walls close in

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Jiaxing Li

Douyin

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

Douyin removes 8,000 videos after latest copyright infringement lawsuit from Tencent. The companies have a history of wrangling over intellectual property.

Douyin removes 8,000 videos after latest copyright infringement lawsuit from Tencent | KrASIA

Douyin removes 8,000 videos after latest copyright infringement lawsuit from Tencent

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

Kuaishou

Tiktok

A Cyberspace Administration of China investment vehicle, as well as two other state agencies, invested USD 308,770 in April for a 1% stake in ByteDance.

Chinese government builds stake in unit of TikTok-owner ByteDance | KrASIA

Chinese government builds stake in unit of TikTok-owner ByteDance

ByteDance seeks 8000 new hires in its largest campus recruitment campaign. The app factory is stepping up recruitment after its edtech arm was obliterated.

ByteDance seeks 8,000 new hires in its largest campus recruitment campaign | KrASIA

ByteDance seeks 8,000 new hires in its largest campus recruitment campaign

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Mengyuan Ge

Tencent wins copyright infringement case against Douyin. ByteDance has lost another court case against Tencent for hosting videos involving Honor of Kings.

Tencent wins copyright infringement case against Douyin | KrASIA

Tencent wins copyright infringement case against Douyin

TikTok, launched in 2017, has since overtaken Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook messenger in downloads, even in the US.

TikTok overtakes Facebook as world's most downloaded app | KrASIA

TikTok overtakes Facebook as world&#8217;s most downloaded app

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

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

E-Commerce

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Retail

China’s tech giants have started a new proxy war in the food and beverage industry.

Tencent and ByteDance fight for a seat at the dinner table (Part 2 of 2) | KrASIA

Tencent and ByteDance fight for a seat at the dinner table (Part 2 of 2)

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Lin Lingyi

Tencent and ByteDance fight for a seat at the dinner table (Part 1 of 2) | KrASIA

Tencent and ByteDance fight for a seat at the dinner table (Part 1 of 2)

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

ByteDance slashes edtech headcount as regulators curtail private tutoring. Thousands of employees of Dali Education are being laid off.