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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

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

China Tech

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Japan, Korea, and the West

Deep Tech

Smartphones

Mate 70 users will get an early look at HarmonyOS Next, Huawei’s new Android-free operating system.

Huawei’s Mate 70 targets Apple with competitive pricing and new OS | KrASIA

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Huawei’s Mate 70 targets Apple with competitive pricing and new OS

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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CATL, short for Contemporary Amperex Technology, is a Chinese company specializing in lithium-ion battery production for electric vehicles, energy storage, and battery management systems.

CATL

Battery

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

CATL targets heavy-duty transport with its new Tianxing batteries, boasting breakthroughs in range, charging speed, and durability.

CATL launches advanced battery lineup to electrify heavy-duty vehicles | KrASIA

CATL launches advanced battery lineup to electrify heavy-duty vehicles

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

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

Offline gaming on the Switch will remain unaffected, though Nintendo’s focus seems to be shifting toward its next-generation console.

Nintendo to end online services for Chinese Switch users by 2026 | KrASIA

Nintendo to end online services for Chinese Switch users by 2026

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

Visual Stories

Honor of Kings and Game for Peace are losing users, but they still are the two most popular mobile games in China

Infographic | Tencent's blockbuster games are losing users to short video | KrASIA

Infographic | Tencent&#8217;s blockbuster games are losing users to short video

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Julianna Wu

Despite their stellar performance, women gamers in China see limited exposure and scant resources.

The trials and tribulations of women e-sports players in China | KrASIA

The trials and tribulations of women e-sports players in China

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Luna Lin

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

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

E-Commerce

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

KrASIA attended Tencent's WeChat annual flagship conference in Guangzhou.

WeChat to enhance short-form content on its platform, says creator Allen Zhang | KrASIA

WeChat to enhance short-form content on its platform, says creator Allen Zhang

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

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

Alibaba

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

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

Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, Didi, and Ele.me are among the 14 companies

Following labor dispute scandals, trade union urges China's top internet companies to prioritize employees | KrASIA

Following labor dispute scandals, trade union urges China&#8217;s top internet companies to prioritize employees

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Song Jingli

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

Currently, merchants have to offer different codes for each payment service.

Tencent and state-owned UnionPay to merge QR code systems for mobile payments in China | KrASIA

Tencent and state-owned UnionPay to merge QR code systems for mobile payments in China

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SCMP

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

The brand aims to offer live-streamed English and maths courses to primary students in China.

Tencent, Sequoia lead USD 80 million funding for VipKid’s new education brand Dami Wangxiao | KrASIA

Tencent, Sequoia lead USD 80 million funding for VipKid’s new education brand Dami Wangxiao

Videos

Can these lightweight mini programs replace traditional app stores?

Mini programs are now a big thing in China. So what exactly are they? | KrASIA

Mini programs are now a big thing in China. So what exactly are they?

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James Chan

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

Transportation

The new feature is part of WeChat's ecosystem of mini apps.

WeChat launches new feature to tackle parking problems in Chinese cities | KrASIA

WeChat launches new feature to tackle parking problems in Chinese cities

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Sun Henan

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

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

Enterprise Services

Enterprise services and medical health stand out to become both the VCs and CVCs' favorites amid a depressed fund-raising environment