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

Miniso

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

Entertainment

Retail

Singapore

With over 30 limited-edition designs from iconic IPs like Disney and Pokemon, Miniso’s latest pop-up taps into Southeast Asia’s craze for blind boxes.

Blind boxes take center stage at Miniso’s festive pop-up in Singapore | KrASIA

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Blind boxes take center stage at Miniso’s festive pop-up in Singapore

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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

Energy

Artificial intelligence

Facing grid strain, tech giants are turning to nuclear power to meet AI-driven energy needs, fueling a new wave of reactor projects despite challenges.

AI’s energy appetite revives nuclear ambitions in the US | KrASIA

AI’s energy appetite revives nuclear ambitions in the US

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

Central Asia

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

Deals in brief: B Capital leads Series A investment in Eureka Robotics, Cove attracts new funding, True Global Ventures backs US-based Prezent, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: B Capital leads Series A investment in Eureka Robotics, Cove attracts new funding, True Global Ventures backs US-based Prezent, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

KrASIA | Tencent Archives

Deals in brief: Tencent backs 13 winners of climate tech program, XSquare and Shomvob secure funding, Mighty Jaxx extends Series A+ round, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Tencent backs 13 winners of climate tech program, XSquare and Shomvob secure funding, Mighty Jaxx extends Series A+ round, and more

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

Alibaba

Taobao

Tmall

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

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 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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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Marvin Goh

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

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain staff as competition ramps up.

China's tech workers trapped in jobs by noncompete contracts | KrASIA

China&#8217;s tech workers trapped in jobs by noncompete contracts

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Deals in brief: Tencent acquires two ByteDance gaming studios, Mitsubishi invests in Tier IV, six China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Tencent acquires two ByteDance gaming studios, Mitsubishi invests in Tier IV, six China and India deals, and more

Content

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

Join Tencent Cloud on November 9 to explore the evolving landscape of new-age consumer behavior.

Tencent Cloud explores the future of e-commerce, gaming, and livestreaming with Digital Industry Singapore | KrASIA

Tencent Cloud explores the future of e-commerce, gaming, and livestreaming with Digital Industry Singapore

Baidu

Cloud

With new challengers emerging, industry leaders are adopting innovative strategies to maintain their dominance and drive growth.

Cloud Computing Giants Compete for Market Share as Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba Release Q1 Financial Reports | KrASIA

Cloud Computing Giants Compete for Market Share as Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba Release Q1 Financial Reports

Chinese gaming giant says will not rush own ChatGPT-style chatbot.

Tencent taps AI technology amid first annual revenue drop | KrASIA

Tencent taps AI technology amid first annual revenue drop

Metaverse

Web3

The summit, held for the first time after an extended lockdown, saw the launch of Metaverse-in-a-Box and a few other exciting announcements for the Web3 community.