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

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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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Indonesia

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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

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Creative

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

GoTo

Lazada

Sea Group

Shopee

Tiktok

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

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

E-Commerce

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E-commerce

With GMV skyrocketing to USD 16.3 billion in 2023, TikTok Shop is shaking up Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market, giving Shopee and Lazada a run for their money.

TikTok Shop’s GMV soared in 2023, putting Shopee and Lazada on edge | KrASIA

TikTok Shop’s GMV soared in 2023, putting Shopee and Lazada on edge

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Douyin

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

Influencers will bear the brunt of the change, aimed at refining Douyin’s e-commerce focus.

ByteDance adjusts Douyin’s traffic allocation to boost e-commerce, sources say | KrASIA

ByteDance adjusts Douyin’s traffic allocation to boost e-commerce, sources say

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

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

Packed with advanced features, Play For Dream’s headset appears to be a formidable challenger to Apple’s Vision Pro.

Apple Vision Pro meets its match in Play For Dream’s Android-powered spatial computer | KrASIA

Apple Vision Pro meets its match in Play For Dream’s Android-powered spatial computer

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

Entertainment

TikTok

ByteDance-owned TikTok remains committed to the US market despite recent setbacks.

TikTok sticks to ambitious US e-commerce targets despite slow start to 2024 | KrASIA

TikTok sticks to ambitious US e-commerce targets despite slow start to 2024

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.

Video

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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Jeff Chay

Creator Economy

Banning TikTok is unlikely to address wider concerns regarding data harvesting and trading.

Why a TikTok ban will do little to protect user privacy | KrASIA

Why a TikTok ban will do little to protect user privacy

While TikTok has been the focus of the bill, a closer examination of its text reveals its potential impact on other Chinese applications such as Lemon8 and CapCut.

How might the TikTok ban bill affect Lemon8, CapCut, and other Chinese applications? | KrASIA

How might the TikTok ban bill affect Lemon8, CapCut, and other Chinese applications?

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Marvin Goh

Japan, Korea, and the West

Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

Netflix

netflix

Ultra-short episodes and wacky plots help series flourish on social media.

China's minidrama producers set their sights on challenging Netflix | KrASIA

China&#8217;s minidrama producers set their sights on challenging Netflix

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

The former Twitter will rebuild its ad business by luring smaller companies.