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Proponents and opponents of regulation both spurn South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt at compromise.

South Korea flounders in quest to restrain power of online platforms | KrASIA

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South Korea flounders in quest to restrain power of online platforms

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

Bilibili

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

China Tech

Content

Creative

Creator Economy

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

Entertainment

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

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

Gaming and ad growth help Bilibili hit a profit, but sustaining this trajectory could be challenging.

Bilibili hits profitability milestone but faces big questions about its staying power | KrASIA

Bilibili hits profitability milestone but faces big questions about its staying power

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

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Podium nets Series A1 funding, Gyges Labs backed to redefine wearables, xAI raises USD 5 billion, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Podium nets Series A1 funding, Gyges Labs backed to redefine wearables, xAI raises USD 5 billion, 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

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

A victory for the individuals against tech giants.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent and TikTok’s sister app Douyin both steal personal information, Beijing court rules | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent and TikTok’s sister app Douyin both steal personal information, Beijing court rules

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Song Jingli

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

Alibaba

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.

Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance all covet Baidu's search business.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba's intelligent search app Quark releases content product ZVideo | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba&#8217;s intelligent search app Quark releases content product ZVideo

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

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

Enterprise Services

Shushi was founded in June 2020 by Li Kefeng, a former JD.com VP and general manager for Baidu's mobile business.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent pours USD 14.2 million in digitization solution provider Shushi in angel round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent pours USD 14.2 million in digitization solution provider Shushi in angel round

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

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

Visual Stories

Ant Group eyes the largest IPO of 2020 with a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world's most valuable startup that emerged from China's online payment competition | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world&#8217;s most valuable startup that emerged from China&#8217;s online payment competition

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Julianna Wu

The launch of WeChat Pay in Istanbul Airport is expected to increase the shopping volume of Chinese travelers in Turkey.

WeChat Pay launches service in Turkey targeting Chinese tourists | KrASIA

WeChat Pay launches service in Turkey targeting Chinese tourists

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Gozde Celik

The proposed deal follows Tencent's plan to invest around USD 70 billion over the next five years in new digital infrastructure.

Tencent’s USD 2.1 billion buyout of online search service Sogou could supercharge WeChat, analysts say | KrASIA

Tencent’s USD 2.1 billion buyout of online search service Sogou could supercharge WeChat, analysts say

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South China Morning Post

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

Chinese online games giant is now the world’s seventh most valuable company ahead of Facebook.

Tencent grabs Facebook’s social media crown with rally that adds USD 207 billion to market value this year | KrASIA

Tencent grabs Facebook’s social media crown with rally that adds USD 207 billion to market value this year

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

In its push towards the Internet of Vehicles, Tencent has teamed up with more than 30 automakers including Mercedes-Benz, Changan, and Geely.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent brings in-car WeChat, mini apps to BMW in new partnership | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent brings in-car WeChat, mini apps to BMW in new partnership

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

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

Lixhi FM

podcast

QingTing FM

Ximalaya FM

The online audio industry is growing fast in China, but challenges remain.

Meet the players competing for China's USD 3.8 billion 'ear economy' | KrASIA

Meet the players competing for China&#8217;s USD 3.8 billion &#8216;ear economy&#8217;

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Tencent

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent and TikTok’s sister app Douyin both steal personal information, Beijing court rules

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba’s intelligent search app Quark releases content product ZVideo

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent pours USD 14.2 million in digitization solution provider Shushi in angel round

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the world’s most valuable startup that emerged from China’s online payment competition