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Investment

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

In an uncommon VC move, HongShan teams up with Li-Ning to drive the sportswear brand’s international growth.

HongShan and Li-Ning form rare joint venture to fuel global expansion | KrASIA

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KrASIA

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

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

China Tech

Miniso

Miniso’s Top Toy brand launches in Bangkok, signaling broader Southeast Asia ambitions.

Top Toy targets Southeast Asia with first store in Thailand, expanding Miniso’s footprint | KrASIA

Top Toy targets Southeast Asia with first store in Thailand, expanding Miniso’s footprint

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

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&#8217;s largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

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Tencent

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.

Programs

Positive user feedback can help mini app developers reach wider audiences.

WeChat is testing user ratings for Mini Programs | KrASIA

WeChat is testing user ratings for Mini Programs

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Lao Bei

Advertising

Developers and publishers could keep up to 70% of ad revenue.

WeChat updates revenue split for Mini Programs and Official Accounts | KrASIA

WeChat updates revenue split for Mini Programs and Official Accounts

Tencent looks set to make more money from advertising.

WeChat launches a third ad slot in Moments feed | KrASIA

WeChat launches a third ad slot in Moments feed

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.

Face recognition

subway

To take the subway in Jinan, all you need to do is get your face scanned | KrASIA

To take the subway in Jinan, all you need to do is get your face scanned

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Song Jingli

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

E-Commerce

E-commerce

Not only does this move allow Tencent to step further into e-commerce, it also encourages additional usage of its e-wallet.

Tencent rolls out logistics interface for vendors on WeChat | KrASIA

Tencent rolls out logistics interface for vendors on WeChat

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

facebook

The Chinese messaging service already has many of the features discussed by Zuckerberg.

Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier | KrASIA

Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier

live-streaming

Will Tencent start a tsunami in live-streaming?

Tencent Live tests live-streaming in WeChat | KrASIA

Tencent Live tests live-streaming in WeChat

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Luna Lin

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

Alibaba

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

online payment

Sending and receiving electric red envelopes posed the biggest pressure to the clearinghouse, followed by shopping and dining.

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival | KrASIA

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival

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

WeChat Pay

This move is designed to help WeChat close the gap between its 1.08 billion monthly active users and WeChat Pay's 900 million monthly active users.