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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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Nikkei Asia

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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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

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

Didi

KrASIA | Didi 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

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

On-Demand Services

China’s central bank partners with Didi Chuxing to advance its sovereign digital currency payment program trials.

Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development | KrASIA

Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development

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South China Morning Post

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

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

Xiaomi

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

MedTech

This plan is still in the "preparation phase" awaiting its first 300,000 members.

Finance giant Fosun the latest to jump into China's expanding mutual aid market | KrASIA

Finance giant Fosun the latest to jump into China&#8217;s expanding mutual aid market

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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.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Self-driving technology companies including Didi, Pony.ai, and AutoX all raked in fresh capital this year.

Didi's robotaxi service kicks off in Shanghai, taking another step towards a driverless future | KrASIA

Didi&#8217;s robotaxi service kicks off in Shanghai, taking another step towards a driverless future

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

Mutual aid health coverage is uniquely popular in China, where consumers think insurance providers too costly and unreliable.

Mutual aid plans, not health insurance, emerge as go-to coverage solution in China | KrASIA

Mutual aid plans, not health insurance, emerge as go-to coverage solution in China

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

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

Food Delivery

The Chinese capital has reported 236 new cases of coronavirus since June 11.

CHINA BRIEF | On-demand platforms to test staff amid Beijing's second wave of COVID-19 | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | On-demand platforms to test staff amid Beijing&#8217;s second wave of COVID-19

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

E-Commerce

Grocery Delivery

The move marks the latest attempt for Didi to expand beyond its core ride-hailing business.

Didi ventures into e-commerce, following previous moves in delivery and on-demand trucking | KrASIA

Didi ventures into e-commerce, following previous moves in delivery and on-demand trucking

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

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

Transportation

Visual Stories

As the third-largest unicorn in China, Didi is at a key point in its development.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Didi shows ambitions with 800 million monthly users target | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Didi shows ambitions with 800 million monthly users target

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Julianna Wu and Amos Chen

The two companies are overlapping in some sectors.

Didi denies rumors about acquisition by Meituan Dianping | KrASIA

Didi denies rumors about acquisition by Meituan Dianping

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

Douyin

Jinri Toutiao

TikTok

Recently departed ByteDance executive Liu Zhen was crucial to the creation of ByteDance's unique culture.

From Uber to TikTok: Liu Zhen, the woman behind ByteDance's rise | KrASIA

From Uber to TikTok: Liu Zhen, the woman behind ByteDance&#8217;s rise

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Didi

Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development

Finance giant Fosun the latest to jump into China’s expanding mutual aid market

Didi’s robotaxi service kicks off in Shanghai, taking another step towards a driverless future