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Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

GoTo

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Sea Group

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Shopee

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Meanwhile, the investors are prizing profitability over merely cutting losses.

ASEAN tech stars Grab, GoTo, and Sea fight to retain market sparkle | KrASIA

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ASEAN tech stars Grab, GoTo, and Sea fight to retain market sparkle

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

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

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

China Tech

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.

Deep Tech

Artificial Inteligence

The Chinese AI unicorn’s latest visual model can understand both videos and web pages.

Zhipu AI brings GPT-4o-like model to China with “video call” integration | KrASIA

Zhipu AI brings GPT-4o-like model to China with “video call” integration

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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Q&amp;A

GovTech’s CTO discusses Singapore’s digital trajectory, highlighting innovation, resilience, and the importance of events like the STACK Developer Conference.

Shaping a digital nation: GovTech’s Chang Sau Sheong on leading Singapore’s tech evolution | KrASIA

Shaping a digital nation: GovTech’s Chang Sau Sheong on leading Singapore’s tech evolution

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KrASIA Writers

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.

KrASIA | Wechat Archives

Tencent

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

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

Kuaishou

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.

Creative

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

Video

With the platform extending the maximum length for videos and introducing other updates, Channels could be WeChat's next battleground to drive sales.

Douyin short-video rival WeChat Channels tests livestreaming feature | KrASIA

Douyin short-video rival WeChat Channels tests livestreaming feature

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

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

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

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

Chinese fintech businesses could be the next target of the Trump administration, despite of having little presence in the United States.

US reportedly considers restrictions on Ant Group, Tencent's payment systems | KrASIA

US reportedly considers restrictions on Ant Group, Tencent&#8217;s payment systems

Monthly active users of Sina Weibo, Q2 2020

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

And its one last competitor Tencent Weibo just closed up shop.

KEY STAT | Sina Weibo sees users growth and revenue dip in second quarter 2020 results | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Sina Weibo sees users growth and revenue dip in second quarter 2020 results

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Julianna Wu

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

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is set to release regulations by Sunday clarifying which WeChat transactions will be prohibited.

WeChat users not targeted by US ban, Trump administration says | KrASIA

WeChat users not targeted by US ban, Trump administration says

The company has been planning to shift some of its business operations, such as international game publishing, out of China as tensions rise between Washington and Beijing.

Tencent to set up Singapore office for international business as political concerns mount | KrASIA

Tencent to set up Singapore office for international business as political concerns mount

Transaction made through WeChat mini-program in 2019, USD 116 billion

The "apps inside WeChat" opened the e-commerce possibility for China's No.1 chatting and social media app.

KEY STAT | WeChat mini program overtakes Meituan as fourth largest transaction platform in China | KrASIA

KEY STAT | WeChat mini program overtakes Meituan as fourth largest transaction platform in China

The move comes amid significant disruption in China's search engine industry, with Tencent buying Sogou and ByteDance releasing Toutiao Search.

WeChat adds new function to expand search engine | KrASIA

WeChat adds new function to expand search engine

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

With COVID-19 largely under control in China, Shanghai is expanding the use of its Suishen Code to outlast the pandemic.

Shanghai adds personal ID to COVID-19 health codes, joining new functions that include mobile payments and borrowing library books | KrASIA

Shanghai adds personal ID to COVID-19 health codes, joining new functions that include mobile payments and borrowing library books

Will super apps like Grab and Gojek implement the same strategy of do-everything platforms like WeChat and Alipay?

Should Southeast Asian super apps follow the same route as their Chinese peers? | KrASIA

Should Southeast Asian super apps follow the same route as their Chinese peers?

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