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

China Tech

Honor

Deep Tech

Smartphones

With its striking design and powerful AI capabilities, the Magic V3 sets the stage for Honor’s dominance in the foldable phone market.

Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe | KrASIA

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Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe

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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

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

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

Creative

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

Apple and Tencent square off again—this time over China’s booming minigames market.

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues | KrASIA

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues

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

E-Commerce

Retail

New COO Zheng Shuohuai takes on the challenge of aligning Sam’s Club’s e-commerce and offline operations as Walmart China sharpens its omnichannel strategy.

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle | KrASIA

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle

MENA

KrASIA | MENA Archives

In July 2020, Mobileye announced that Germany’s independent technical service provider, TÜV Süd, had awarded it an automated vehicle testing permit. It allows the company to drive its test vehicles in real-world traffic on all German roads at speeds up to 130 kilometers per hour. Mobileye is starting testing in Munich and also plans testing in other parts of Germany. Courtesy of Mobileye via NoCamels.

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

Mobility

Mobileye is permitted to perform autonomous vehicle tests in urban and rural areas as well as on the Autobahn at up to 130 kilometers per hour.

Mobileye takes autonomous vehicle for test spin in Munich traffic | KrASIA

Mobileye takes autonomous vehicle for test spin in Munich traffic

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NoCamels

An Innoviz Technologies vehicle. Courtesy of Innoviz via NoCamels.

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Innoviz is a leading provider of lidar sensing solutions for the mass commercialization of autonomous vehicles.

Israeli lidar sensor firm Innoviz to go public at USD 1.4 billion valuation | KrASIA

Israeli lidar sensor firm Innoviz to go public at USD 1.4 billion valuation

Food Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Jahez has quickly grown into one of the largest food delivery players in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi food delivery startup Jahez plans to go public in 2021 | KrASIA

Saudi food delivery startup Jahez plans to go public in 2021

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MENAbytes

Microsoft

Eloops' platform provides human resource leaders with gamification tools combined with a rich marketplace of pre-made content templates and virtual activities.

Israel's Eloops to integrate platform into Microsoft Teams app | KrASIA

Israel&#8217;s Eloops to integrate platform into Microsoft Teams app

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

A majority of the investments in 2020 went to late-stage startups and companies, following a trend in the high-sector that has been on the rise for several years.

Israeli companies raise record-smashing USD 9.5 billion in 2020 | KrASIA

Israeli companies raise record-smashing USD 9.5 billion in 2020

Startup Istanbul has built up a deal flow through its annual event and now wants to cut checks for promising participants.

Startup Istanbul launches USD 10 million fund for pre-seed startups | KrASIA

Startup Istanbul launches USD 10 million fund for pre-seed startups

Startup World Cup's Israeli chapter is currently vetting applicants.

Startup World Cup to make Israel debut with final prize worth USD 1 million | KrASIA

Startup World Cup to make Israel debut with final prize worth USD 1 million

Sprii was the second most funded startup in the e-commerce category for products for babies and mothers within the region.

Dubai’s Sprii enters liquidation after running out of cash | KrASIA

Dubai’s Sprii enters liquidation after running out of cash

Technion faculty practice distance teaching ahead of the opening of the online spring semester. Courtesy of Technion Spokesperson’s Office via NoCamels.

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

Today, Ex Libris is an Israel-based edtech company working with more than 7,500 academic institutes, insluding Harvard, Yale, and Oxford.