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

China Tech

Honor

Deep Tech

Smartphones

With its striking design and powerful AI capabilities, the Magic V3 sets the stage for Honor’s dominance in the foldable phone market.

Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe | KrASIA

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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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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

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

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

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

Apple and Tencent square off again—this time over China’s booming minigames market.

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues | KrASIA

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues

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

E-Commerce

Retail

New COO Zheng Shuohuai takes on the challenge of aligning Sam’s Club’s e-commerce and offline operations as Walmart China sharpens its omnichannel strategy.

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle | KrASIA

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle

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

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

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

Alibaba

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

Gojek

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

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

Entertainment

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

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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Ursula Florene

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

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

As Chinese brands go global, regulations at home and abroad may impede their operations.

China's new restrictions on tech exports could hit more than TikTok | KrASIA

China&#8217;s new restrictions on tech exports could hit more than TikTok

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

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

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

WeChat users can now submit identity and bank information to register for a store.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent lets WeChat users open in-app shops | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent lets WeChat users open in-app shops

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Song Jingli

WeChat's comment section was taken down in 2018 after a request by authorities.

CHINA BRIEF | WeChat tests Q&amp;A section in public accounts to encourage interaction | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | WeChat tests Q&amp;A section in public accounts to encourage interaction

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

Social Impact

Visual Stories

China's No.1 chatting app is anxiously putting out new features to fend off advances from local competitors.

TECH PANO | How do WeChat copes with domestic competition while facing external threat from the US | KrASIA

TECH PANO | How do WeChat copes with domestic competition while facing external threat from the US

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Julianna Wu

Both of the White House's executive orders targeting ByteDance and WeChat will likely be challenged in court.

Chinese-American lawyers plan to sue US government on behalf of WeChat users | KrASIA

Chinese-American lawyers plan to sue US government on behalf of WeChat users

Live Streaming

Tencent’s Hong Kong-listed shares dived 10% following the news, erasing USD 34.6 billion in market capitalization.

ByteDance threatens to sue US government on ban 'issued without any due process' | KrASIA

ByteDance threatens to sue US government on ban &#8216;issued without any due process&#8217;

Grocery Delivery

Shangjia Xiaochengxu aims to help the retail sector to upgrade digitally and seek additional revenue growth.

Wechat

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

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

China’s new restrictions on tech exports could hit more than TikTok

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent lets WeChat users open in-app shops

CHINA BRIEF | WeChat tests Q&A section in public accounts to encourage interaction

TECH PANO | How do WeChat copes with domestic competition while facing external threat from the US

Chinese-American lawyers plan to sue US government on behalf of WeChat users

ByteDance threatens to sue US government on ban ‘issued without any due process’

WeChat Pay launches feature for brick-and-mortar merchants, takes on Meituan and Ele.me

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