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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

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

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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

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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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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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

Tencent Invests $98M in News Video App to Compete with Toutiao’s Video App Matrix

The market size for short video hit RMB 5.74 billion in 2017 and is expected to grow to RMB 30 billion by 2020, according to iResearch.

Deals | Tencent Invests $98M in News Video App to Compete with Toutiao’s Video App Matrix | KrASIA

Deals | Tencent Invests $98M in News Video App to Compete with Toutiao’s Video App Matrix

I'm Xiaochun with KrASIA [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Tencent Bets on Its Revived Weishi App to Take on Toutiao's Tik Tok in Short Video Streaming

TikTok has been growing in popularity since its inception in 2016.

Tencent bets on its revived Weishi app to take on TikTok in short-video streaming | KrASIA

Tencent bets on its revived Weishi app to take on TikTok in short-video streaming

Tencent works on new retail mainly to promote the expansion of three businesses: financial payment, cloud computing, and advertising.

Pony MA: Why Tencent Is Spending so Much Money Purchasing Shares of Offline Retail Enterprises? | KrASIA

Pony MA: Why Tencent Is Spending so Much Money Purchasing Shares of Offline Retail Enterprises?

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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

Tencent and Walmart are all major shareholders in JD.com.

Walmart Sides with Tencent; Stops Accepting Alipay in Southwest China Stores | KrASIA

Walmart Sides with Tencent; Stops Accepting Alipay in Southwest China Stores

Tencent Establishes Robotics X Lab, Mapping out Plan for Tencent AI Lab

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.

Chief researcher at MSR is likely to resign from Microsoft to work for Robotics X.

Tencent Establishes Robotics X Lab, Mapping out Plan for Tencent AI Lab | KrASIA

Qu Toutiao, or Fun Headlines, mulls an IPO in the US as soon as this year.

Deals | Tencent Leads News Aggregator Qu Toutiao’s USD 100 Million+ Pre-IPO Round | KrASIA

Deals | Tencent Leads News Aggregator Qu Toutiao’s USD 100 Million+ Pre-IPO Round

Highlights from the past week, as well as something cool for the weekend.

KrASIA Weekly Roundup: Tencent Invests in 2 Chinese Top Game-Streaming Platforms | KrASIA

KrASIA Weekly Roundup: Tencent Invests in 2 Chinese Top Game-Streaming Platforms

Tencent CSO: Bitcoin Is An Intrinsically Valueless Asset That Tencent Will Not Bet on

Nobel Prize winner warned that cryptocurrency would lead to catastrophe.

Tencent CSO: Bitcoin Is An Intrinsically Valueless Asset That Tencent Will Not Bet on | KrASIA

Tencent CEO Pony Ma: No ICO But is Exploring Blockchain Applications

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

Voices

Tencent's super app WeChat just crossed a milestone of 1 billion monthly active users in the past Chinese Lunar New Year.