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

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Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep

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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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

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Japan, Korea, and the West

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.

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Artificial intelligence

To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

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What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

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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

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

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

Some consumers may be unconcerned but experts warn they can be hurt by giving too much information away.

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In China’s tech hub of Shenzhen, it’s hard to pay without an app and that is starting to raise privacy concerns

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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

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

Fintech and business services account for a quarter of the conglomerate's revenue, while gaming still accounts for one-third.

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Tencent&#8217;s fintech and cloud business outgrow gaming

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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

It is among the most downloaded apps in the Philippines and in Malaysia.

As growth at home slows, Tencent Music expands its social entertainment app WeSing to Southeast Asia | KrASIA

As growth at home slows, Tencent Music expands its social entertainment app WeSing to Southeast Asia

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

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Tech firms are up in arms to combat internal corruption.

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Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent&#8217;s war on corruption

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Targeting 600 Billion Square Meters of Farmland, MCFLY Uses AI to Offer Disease & Pest Monitoring and Control

Alibaba and Tencent utilize troves of data to offer fresh lending.

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China&#8217;s mobile banks offer 1-second loan decisions in farmland

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Tencent’s cloud gaming could go on TV boxes, beating Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud to Asia.

Tencent eyes Southeast Asia, not China, for cloud gaming platform | KrASIA

Tencent eyes Southeast Asia, not China, for cloud gaming platform

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

At the moment, ByteDance's Douyin is still the most popular app of its kind.

Tencent will invest up to USD 1.5 billion in short video app Kuaishou, putting pressure on ByteDance | KrASIA

Tencent will invest up to USD 1.5 billion in short video app Kuaishou, putting pressure on ByteDance

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

ByteDance is now directly challenging two of China's most powerful internet giants.

ByteDance to launch its first heavy game early next year, challenging one of Tencent's core businesses | KrASIA

ByteDance to launch its first heavy game early next year, challenging one of Tencent&#8217;s core businesses

Tencent and ByteDance are locking horns on multiple fronts.

Tencent

In China’s tech hub of Shenzhen, it’s hard to pay without an app and that is starting to raise privacy concerns

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Tencent eyes Southeast Asia, not China, for cloud gaming platform

Tencent will invest up to USD 1.5 billion in short video app Kuaishou, putting pressure on ByteDance

ByteDance to launch its first heavy game early next year, challenging one of Tencent’s core businesses

Kuaishou becomes stickier in WeChat, tapping the social media giant’s 1.1 billion users

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