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36Kr (EN)

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

China Tech

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Indonesia

Electric vehicle

indonesia

The automakers are planning local productions to crack a market dominated by Japanese players.

China's BYD, Neta eye growth in Indonesia with new EV investments | KrASIA

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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

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

India

Japan

Philippines

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Humble bags additional funding, A&D invests in Aevice Health, RecycleSmart crowdfunds USD 1.15 million, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Humble bags additional funding, A&#038;D invests in Aevice Health, RecycleSmart crowdfunds USD 1.15 million, and more

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Jeff Chay

Baidu

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.

Cloud

Deep Tech

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Artificial intelligence is reshaping every aspect of Baidu's business.

Baidu posts promising Q1 financials amid AI-driven uptick | KrASIA

Baidu posts promising Q1 financials amid AI-driven uptick

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

KrASIA | SEA Tech Archives

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

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

Indonesia recently blocked 26 unauthorized investment businesses, including three crypto platforms.

Indonesia's growing crypto market is a staging ground for illegal platforms | KrASIA

Indonesia&#8217;s growing crypto market is a staging ground for illegal platforms

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Khamila Mulia

Digital Banks

The round brings Tonik’s total funding to USD 44 million. 

Tonik raises USD 17 million for its neobank aimed at the Philippines' unbanked population | KrASIA

Tonik raises USD 17 million for its neobank aimed at the Philippines&#8217; unbanked population

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Stephanie Li

Vietnam

In April, the company said it is considering a US IPO or SPAC merger that could value VinFast at around USD 60 billion.

Vingroup retires smartphone ambitions to focus on US electric vehicle market | KrASIA

Vingroup retires smartphone ambitions to focus on US electric vehicle market

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

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

On-Demand Services

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

Even before the investment, Gojek and Telkomsel have been working together for some time.

Telkomsel dials up investment in Gojek, expands collaboration in ads and gaming | KrASIA

Telkomsel dials up investment in Gojek, expands collaboration in ads and gaming

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Ursula Florene

Malaysia

Joe McGuire is the founder of MyMy, a company bidding for one of five digital banking licenses that Malaysia will provide in Q1 2022.

This entrepreneur aims to build Malaysia's first sharia-compliant neobank | Startup stories | KrASIA

This entrepreneur aims to build Malaysia&#8217;s first sharia-compliant neobank | Startup stories

Creative

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

Singapore-based Pops Worldwide is attracting viewers with an approach that differs from global entertainment giants.

As streaming services gain screen time in Southeast Asia, one local contender makes strides | KrASIA

As streaming services gain screen time in Southeast Asia, one local contender makes strides

Despite a pandemic-induced drop in overseas workers, remittances from Filipinos abroad reached USD 33.2 billion in 2020, nearly unchanged from a year earlier.

With OFBank, the Philippine government enters the remittance business | KrASIA

With OFBank, the Philippine government enters the remittance business

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Elyssa Christine Lopez

Tiktok

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

E-Commerce

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

TikTok Shop was launched in Indonesia in mid-April, at the beginning of Ramadan, with heavy celebrity endorsement.

Here's what to expect when you shop on TikTok’s new e-commerce portal | KrASIA

Here&#8217;s what to expect when you shop on TikTok’s new e-commerce portal

Lending

The company has disbursed over SGD 850 million in loans for SMEs across Southeast Asia so far.

SEA Tech

Indonesia’s growing crypto market is a staging ground for illegal platforms

Tonik raises USD 17 million for its neobank aimed at the Philippines’ unbanked population

Vingroup retires smartphone ambitions to focus on US electric vehicle market

Telkomsel dials up investment in Gojek, expands collaboration in ads and gaming

This entrepreneur aims to build Malaysia’s first sharia-compliant neobank | Startup stories

As streaming services gain screen time in Southeast Asia, one local contender makes strides

With OFBank, the Philippine government enters the remittance business

Here’s what to expect when you shop on TikTok’s new e-commerce portal

Fintech lender Validus raises SGD 30 million for SME loans in Singapore

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