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

China Tech

Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

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

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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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36Kr English

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

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 intelligence

To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools | KrASIA

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

Tiktok

Content

Creative

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

Entertainment

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

TikTok's CEO spoke at the APEC event in Latin America, where the app's user base is growing rapidly.

TikTok wants to become "most trusted" company as US ban looms | KrASIA

TikTok wants to become &#8220;most trusted&#8221; company as US ban looms

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

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

Scrappy startups and big banks are still finding their footing in the country's evolving fintech sector.

Myanmar's mobile money services are scattered, spotty, and spirited | KrASIA

Myanmar&#8217;s mobile money services are scattered, spotty, and spirited

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Stephanie Li

credit scores

credit scoring

credolab

fundraising

Investment

Series A

CredoLab utilizes an AI-based algorithm to gather mobile device metadata for its alternative credit scoring platform.

CredoLab raises USD 7 million in funding round led by GBG | KrASIA

CredoLab raises USD 7 million in funding round led by GBG

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Yin Lin Tan

Paytm

PhonePe

Lending

A survey of 1,000 merchants by RedSeer found that retailers believe their share of digital payments is going to increase significantly in the next 12 months.

Mobile payment users to reach 800 million in India by 2025 | KrASIA

Mobile payment users to reach 800 million in India by 2025

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

The SoftBank-backed fintech platform last week raised USD 356.4 million from a follow-on share sale to fund its overseas expansion.

Ping An’s OneConnect fintech arm expects flurry of deals in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Ping An’s OneConnect fintech arm expects flurry of deals in Southeast Asia

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South China Morning Post

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Wallyt offers a suite of mobile payment solutions to overseas financial institutions and merchants.

Nurturing a cashless future: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Nurturing a cashless future: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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

The company has developed a stock trading platform that is similar to Robinhood.

Y Combinator-backed Thndr receives first new Egyptian brokerage license in ten years | KrASIA

Y Combinator-backed Thndr receives first new Egyptian brokerage license in ten years

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MENAbytes

The two firms and the Singapore-based organization have launched a platform named Healthcare Fintech Alliance.

Alibaba Cloud, Pfizer, and FinTech Academy team up to find innovative solutions for Southeast Asia's healthcare industry | KrASIA

Alibaba Cloud, Pfizer, and FinTech Academy team up to find innovative solutions for Southeast Asia&#8217;s healthcare industry

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Khamila Mulia

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

India Tech

NPCI kicked off its global expansion last year, starting with UAE and Singapore, where both UPI and RuPay have a presence.

Indian government-backed payment networks to go global | KrASIA

Indian government-backed payment networks to go global

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

Alibaba

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

Alibaba founder confirms intent to slash half-ownership 'over time.'

Fintech

Myanmar’s mobile money services are scattered, spotty, and spirited

CredoLab raises USD 7 million in funding round led by GBG

Mobile payment users to reach 800 million in India by 2025

Ping An’s OneConnect fintech arm expects flurry of deals in Southeast Asia

Nurturing a cashless future: Inside China’s Startups

Y Combinator-backed Thndr receives first new Egyptian brokerage license in ten years

Alibaba Cloud, Pfizer, and FinTech Academy team up to find innovative solutions for Southeast Asia’s healthcare industry

Indian government-backed payment networks to go global

Fate of Jack Ma stake hangs over Ant Group’s mega IPO plan

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