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

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

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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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

Pluang has seen significant growth in its user base this year due to collaborations with platforms that are household names.

This startup makes gains as gold shines through in the pandemic: Startup Stories | KrASIA

This startup makes gains as gold shines through in the pandemic: Startup Stories

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Khamila Mulia

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Bank of Shanghai hopes to integrate its financial technology and innovation capability into the diversified service scenarios on DiDi’s platform.

DiDi partners with Bank of Shanghai to expand its financial services | KrASIA

DiDi partners with Bank of Shanghai to expand its financial services

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Gozde Celik

Fawry currently offers over 250 electronic payment services through its network of over 105,000 service points across 300 cities in Egypt. Courtesy of Fawry via MENAbytes.

The company offers over 250 electronic payment services, and is the only tech company traded publicly in Egypt.

Egypt’s Fawry is now a billion-dollar company | KrASIA

Egypt’s Fawry is now a billion-dollar company

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MENAbytes

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

deeptech

Event

Smart CIty

KrASIA and EDB are proud to host an event that aims to facilitate robust discussions on SEA's tech and innovation ecosystem, featuring speakers from Grab, Sea Group, and more.

Reshuffling the cards: What do industry players think about Southeast Asia’s new economy? | KrASIA

Reshuffling the cards: What do industry players think about Southeast Asia’s new economy?

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Lin Lingyi

Wave Money will focus on an app started in 2018 for paying bills and making online purchases, tapping the expertise of Alipay. Photo by Yuichi Nitta for Nikkei Asian Review.

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

Alibaba

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

Yoma Group said it will integrate Alibaba’s credit analysis technology into the Wave Money mobile payment app.

Wave Money rolls out new credit scores with Alibaba’s tech | KrASIA

Wave Money rolls out new credit scores with Alibaba’s tech

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Stephanie Li

Around 2,600 merchants have signed up with the payment aggregator.

Clik is cultivating Cambodia's next generation of fintech leaders: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Clik is cultivating Cambodia&#8217;s next generation of fintech leaders: Startup Stories

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

India Tech

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

Enterprise Services

Grocery Delivery

India

From stock cataloging to POS billing solutions to grocery deliveries, the company has adapted quickly to keep with the times.

Perpule's B2C pivots land it in big-box business: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Perpule&#8217;s B2C pivots land it in big-box business: Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

Online classes were like a band-aid in the beginning because nobody believed that the pandemic would last this long, said Sandeep Aneja.

Sequoia Capital

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

The company received an NBFC (non-banking financial company) license from Reserve Bank of India in 2017 that allows it to offer financial products and services to customers.

Sequoia Capital leads USD 5 million round in education loan startup Eduvanz | KrASIA

Sequoia Capital leads USD 5 million round in education loan startup Eduvanz

financial sector and innovation scheme

fintech in Singapore

fsti

Government

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Singapore

The enhanced Financial Sector Technology and Innovation Scheme aims to drive technology and innovation in the financial sector.

Singapore commits SGD 250 million to develop fintech sector | KrASIA

Singapore commits SGD 250 million to develop fintech sector

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