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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.

KrASIA

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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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

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

Startups

unicorns

Sequoia Capital is the most successful unicorn breeder

China now has 202 unicorns, says report | KrASIA

China now has 202 unicorns, says report

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Luna Lin

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

Chile

Colombia

Latin America

ride-hailing

Uber

The move brings Didi increasingly in contention with Uber.

Didi enters Colombia and Chile as it steps up Latin American expansion | KrASIA

Didi enters Colombia and Chile as it steps up Latin American expansion

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Lao Bei

Didi Chuxing

Softbank

The Chinese firm is following tourists to Japan.

Didi expands taxi-hailing service in Japan | KrASIA

Didi expands taxi-hailing service in Japan

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Song Jingli

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

Alibaba

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

E-Commerce

Tencent

Among the most popular workplaces in China are also EV makes Nio and Tesla

LinkedIn data shows Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance are China's top 3 companies to work for in 2019 | KrASIA

LinkedIn data shows Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance are China&#8217;s top 3 companies to work for in 2019

Orang Eenergy

Didi had over 200,000 EVs registered on its platform in January 2017.

Leading EV charging operators disconnect themselves from Didi Chuxing | KrASIA

Leading EV charging operators disconnect themselves from Didi Chuxing

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

autonomous driving

The competition to develop driverless cars is fast and furious.

Didi sets up autonomous driving subsidiary | KrASIA

Didi sets up autonomous driving subsidiary

Didi, China's largest ride-hailing company is about to lay off thousands of employees but is apparently determined not to end things on a bitter note.

Firing thousands, Didi is said to be doling out sweeter-than-expected compensation deals | KrASIA

Firing thousands, Didi is said to be doling out sweeter-than-expected compensation deals

And it's laying off a quarter of its staff.

To subsidize drivers, Didi racks up annual loss of US$1.6 billion | KrASIA

To subsidize drivers, Didi racks up annual loss of US$1.6 billion

Unnamed sources contacted by 36Kr, KrAsia’s parent company, revealed on Wednesday that Didi Chuxing is laying off a quarter of its 13,000 employees to cut costs. Didi is China’s largest rail-hailing company.