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Despite headwinds, 20% of listed companies reach new heights in first-half earnings.

From Hello Kitty to missiles, fifth of Japan firms reap record profits | KrASIA

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From Hello Kitty to missiles, fifth of Japan firms reap record profits

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

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

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

China Tech

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

Dubbed the “Nvidia of China,” Moore Threads is set to become a bellwether of China’s semiconductor sector.

Moore Threads moves toward IPO as China’s GPU ambitions take shape | KrASIA

Moore Threads moves toward IPO as China’s GPU ambitions take shape

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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Xpeng

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Strong sales of the Mona M03 and P7+ highlight Xpeng’s growing momentum in the EV market.

Xpeng hits its stride with Q3 financial and EV production breakthroughs | KrASIA

Xpeng hits its stride with Q3 financial and EV production breakthroughs

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

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

Tencent is hiring for at least five game-related positions in California, requiring candidates to have experience creating blockbuster games.

Tencent hires big names including Ken-Ichiro Imaizumi and Scott Warner in blockbuster game push | KrASIA

Tencent hires big names including Ken-Ichiro Imaizumi and Scott Warner in blockbuster game push

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South China Morning Post

Social Impact

two sessions

Wechat

Despite being absent from this year's Lianghui, Ma will be submitting seven proposals on behalf of Tencent.

Tencent boss Pony Ma to not attend China's top political meeting | KrASIA

Tencent boss Pony Ma to not attend China&#8217;s top political meeting

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

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

Samsung

Swiggy

Food Delivery

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

Swiggy has asked 1,100 employees to leave, giving them three months notice period and other severance packages.

Swiggy raises an additional USD 1.88 million from Samsung Ventures after recent layoff | KrASIA

Swiggy raises an additional USD 1.88 million from Samsung Ventures after recent layoff

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Avanish Tiwary

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

E-Commerce

Grocery Delivery

Visual Stories

A summary of what these companies did right to survive, rise, and shine from the global health crisis.

TECH PANORAMA | Companies using digitization to boost business amid the COVID-19 outbreak | KrASIA

TECH PANORAMA | Companies using digitization to boost business amid the COVID-19 outbreak

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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

China gaming industry

gaming addiction in China

Tencent Games

Tencent Games rolled out an in-house "health system" in 2017 to stem youth gaming addiction. These new rules take that further.

Tencent Games cuts screen time for minors again following government guidelines | KrASIA

Tencent Games cuts screen time for minors again following government guidelines

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

Alibaba

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

The company has gone live an enterprise-facing cloud service platform called Huoshan Yinqing.

ByteDance ventures into cloud computing sector with launch of Huoshan Yinqing | KrASIA

ByteDance ventures into cloud computing sector with launch of Huoshan Yinqing

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Song Jingli

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

Shimao Service, an arm of Shimao Property, has over 500 management projects in more than 60 cities across China.

Shimao Property subsidiary gets USD 244 million from Tencent and Sequoia Capital | KrASIA

Shimao Property subsidiary gets USD 244 million from Tencent and Sequoia Capital

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.

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

Enterprise Services

PUBG mobile

Tencent gaming revenue, aided by a gaming consumption boom, has allowed the company to withstand COVID-19 headwinds and look to the future.

Tencent gaming revenue growth pushes company past Q1 expectations | KrASIA

Tencent gaming revenue growth pushes company past Q1 expectations

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AJ Cortese

The Canadian cafe chain aims to tap on China's online coffee market, following the rise of several coffee brands in recent years.