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

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud

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

China Tech

Vietnam

The Chinese tech group is renting server space from state-owned partners in the meantime.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law | KrASIA

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Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law

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

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

Tiktok

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.

Content

Creative

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

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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Jeff Chay

Photo of Victor Lysenko, founder and CEO of Osome.

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

Cambodia

India

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more

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Kuaishou bonus for each employee: USD 4447

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

Kuaishou

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

Social Impact

Several tech firms will have generous bonuses for its employees. Newly-listed short video app Kuaishou (HKEX: 1024) said it prepared a "sunshine award" of 100 shares for each of its regular employees, 36Kr reported. The award is valued at around USD 4,447 based on its current price.

KEY STAT | Kuaishou announces employee dividend as share price rockets | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Kuaishou announces employee dividend as share price rockets

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Julianna Wu

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Live Streaming

Music

TME's US-listed stock has more than doubled since its debut in 2018.

Tencent Music Entertainment mulls USD 5 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong | KrASIA

Tencent Music Entertainment mulls USD 5 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong

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

The world's first short video stock reached a market cap of USD 179 billion. Short video app Kuaishou (HKEX: 1024) on Friday morning raised USD 5.3 billion in the biggest tech IPO since Uber, and the biggest public listing in Hong Kong, with its stock price almost tripling from HKD 115 to HKD 338.

KEY STAT | Kuaishou jumps nearly 200% in Hong Kong debut | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Kuaishou jumps nearly 200% in Hong Kong debut

China's largest short-video platform Douyin on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Tencent for alleged monopolistic behavior, signaling an escalation of the rivalry between the two tech giants.

ByteDance's Douyin sues Tencent, claiming antitrust violations | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin sues Tencent, claiming antitrust violations

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Song Jingli

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

E-Commerce

Visual Stories

Chinese internet users love short video apps. As the most popular short video apps in China, Douyin and Kuaishou are fundamentally different.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | How Kuaishou and Douyin make a business out of short videos | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | How Kuaishou and Douyin make a business out of short videos

Kuaishou IPO to raise at least USD 5 billion

The app saw a drop in daily and monthly active users in the second half of 2020.

KEY STAT | Kuaishou prepares for the biggest IPO since Uber | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Kuaishou prepares for the biggest IPO since Uber

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Short-video company targets e-commerce for growth, in defiance of leader Alipay.

ByteDance unveils payment service for China's version of TikTok | KrASIA

ByteDance unveils payment service for China&#8217;s version of TikTok

Several high-profile ByteDance products flopped or failed to gain steam.

ByteDance to shut down Q&amp;A app Wukong Wenda | KrASIA

ByteDance to shut down Q&amp;A app Wukong Wenda

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

Baidu

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

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Li Auto

Luckin Coffee

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

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

WeRide

WM Motor

Xpeng

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

Videos

The pandemic accelerated tech trends that will continue to dominate daily life in 2021.

Video | Looking back on the biggest news and trends of 2020 | KrASIA

Video | Looking back on the biggest news and trends of 2020

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