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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

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

China Tech

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

Japan, Korea, and the West

Deep Tech

Smartphones

Mate 70 users will get an early look at HarmonyOS Next, Huawei’s new Android-free operating system.

Huawei’s Mate 70 targets Apple with competitive pricing and new OS | KrASIA

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Huawei’s Mate 70 targets Apple with competitive pricing and new OS

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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CATL, short for Contemporary Amperex Technology, is a Chinese company specializing in lithium-ion battery production for electric vehicles, energy storage, and battery management systems.

CATL

Battery

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

CATL targets heavy-duty transport with its new Tianxing batteries, boasting breakthroughs in range, charging speed, and durability.

CATL launches advanced battery lineup to electrify heavy-duty vehicles | KrASIA

CATL launches advanced battery lineup to electrify heavy-duty vehicles

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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36Kr English

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

Offline gaming on the Switch will remain unaffected, though Nintendo’s focus seems to be shifting toward its next-generation console.

Nintendo to end online services for Chinese Switch users by 2026 | KrASIA

Nintendo to end online services for Chinese Switch users by 2026

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

KrASIA | Fintech Archives

Egypt’s NowPay raises USD 2.1 million seed investment

NowPay's team. Courtesy of NowPay via MENAbytes.

MENA

The employees of companies that use NowPay can request salary advances through its mobile app.

Egypt’s NowPay raises USD 2.1 million seed for financial wellness platform | KrASIA

Egypt’s NowPay raises USD 2.1 million seed for financial wellness platform

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MENAbytes

Razorpay became the sixth unicorn company this year

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

Sequoia Capital

Tiger Global

Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005. Y Combinator is consistently ranked at the top of U.S. accelerators.

Y Combinator

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

Razorpay aims to power payments and banking for 50 million businesses by 2025 from the current five million.

Indian fintech startup Razorpay enters unicorn club with USD 100 million funding from GIC, Sequoia | KrASIA

Indian fintech startup Razorpay enters unicorn club with USD 100 million funding from GIC, Sequoia

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

China gives out free digital currency worth USD 1.49 million

The southern tech hub is launching China's first public test of the official digital currency.

KEY STAT | China gives away free digital yuan in Shenzhen | KrASIA

KEY STAT | China gives away free digital yuan in Shenzhen

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Julianna Wu

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

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

Lending

The decision to pursue a US listing bucks the trend of Chinese tech companies choosing exchanges at home.

Ping An-backed fintech unicorn Lufax files for US IPO | KrASIA

Ping An-backed fintech unicorn Lufax files for US IPO

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

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

Alibaba

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

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

The 3-year-old public blockchain Zilliqa is fueling Singapore's first stablecoin, a private securities exchange, and an accelerator.

The blockchain revolution is making inroads into Singapore | KrASIA

The blockchain revolution is making inroads into Singapore

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Georg Ackermann

Razer

razer card

razer fintech

Razer Pay

Visa

Razer applied for a digital banking license in Singapore, as part of its ambition to establish a global youth bank.

Razer partners with Visa to release virtual prepaid card | KrASIA

Razer partners with Visa to release virtual prepaid card

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Yin Lin Tan

Bukalapak

Bukalapak is the first e-commerce platform in Indonesia to receive a license as mutual funds selling agent.

Bukalapak launches new fintech subsidiary Buka Investasi Bersama | KrASIA

Bukalapak launches new fintech subsidiary Buka Investasi Bersama

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Khamila Mulia

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

E-Commerce

The gaming and e-commerce firm will 'not compromise growth potential,' says CEO.

How Singapore's Sea is surfing Southeast Asia's digital wave | KrASIA

How Singapore&#8217;s Sea is surfing Southeast Asia&#8217;s digital wave

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