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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

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Nowwa follows Cotti in expanding to the Middle East, targeting growth in an untapped market for Chinese coffee brands.

Chinese coffee brands set sights on Middle East as next big market | KrASIA

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KrASIA

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

Indonesia

Philippines

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Insider raises USD 500 million, UOB FinLab funds ASEAN green tech pilots, six China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Insider raises USD 500 million, UOB FinLab funds ASEAN green tech pilots, six China deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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.

Deep Tech

MiniMax’s Talkie app defies AI market skeptics with USD 70 million in projected revenue, but can it replicate its success?

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom | KrASIA

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom

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

Didi

KrASIA | Didi Archives

Mobility

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

On-Demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

Didi shareholders expected to back U.S. delisting plan. Investors forced to "play long game" amid unrelenting pressure from Beijing.

Didi shareholders expected to back U.S. delisting plan | KrASIA

Didi shareholders expected to back U.S. delisting plan

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

Japan, Korea, and the West

Food Delivery

Didi to shut food delivery business in Japan. Majority of 200 employees to be laid off, two years after entry into market.

Didi to shut food delivery business in Japan | KrASIA

Didi to shut food delivery business in Japan

Didi set to lay off 20% of staff as multiple business lines fail to meet expectations. Competitors took Didi’s business after its removal from app stores.

Didi set to lay off 20% of staff as multiple business lines fail to meet expectations | KrASIA

Didi set to lay off 20% of staff as multiple business lines fail to meet expectations

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Jiaxing Li

Gig workers in China. Illustration by KrASIA.

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

Alibaba

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

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

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Social Impact

New regulations aim to improve gig workers’ pay and labor conditions. New regulations aim to improve gig workers’ pay and labor conditions.

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there's still a long way to go | KrASIA

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there&#8217;s still a long way to go

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

Transportation

Didi delisting reflects Chinese worry over losing big data to US. President Xi Jinping keeps tight controls on tech companies ahead of party congress.

Didi delisting reflects Chinese worry over losing big data to US | KrASIA

Didi delisting reflects Chinese worry over losing big data to US

China's Didi Global to delist from New York in favor of Hong Kong. Leading ride-hailer to make dramatic retreat after USD 4.4 billion June IPO.

China's Didi Global to delist from New York in favor of Hong Kong | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Didi Global to delist from New York in favor of Hong Kong

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

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

Insurance

Didi halts mutual aid service as China tightens fintech regulations. Major mutual aid platforms have been suspended as regulators rein in tech firms.

Didi suspends mutual aid service as China tightens fintech regulations | KrASIA

Didi suspends mutual aid service as China tightens fintech regulations

China’s Ministry of Transportation warns ride-hailing platforms against performing ‘illegal’ operations. Drivers that lack permits will be taken offline.

China’s Ministry of Transportation warns ride-hailing platforms against performing ‘illegal’ operations | KrASIA

China’s Ministry of Transportation warns ride-hailing platforms against performing ‘illegal’ operations

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Mengyuan Ge

Close to USD 1 billion worth of offerings in works despite declared 'pause' in US reviews.