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

China Tech

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Drones

DJI's sales soar as a worker shortage fuels demand for labor-saving technology.

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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.

Facial Recognition

Korea

The world is in the grip of a deepfake epidemic, and victims are coming together to demand accountability and action.

"My life is not your porn": Documenting women’s fight against deepfake abuse | KrASIA

&#8220;My life is not your porn&#8221;: Documenting women’s fight against deepfake abuse

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

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

As China battles CNC technology restrictions, First Automation’s approach could offer the breakthrough the industry needs.

Can First Automation step up to break China’s CNC bottleneck? | KrASIA

Can First Automation step up to break China’s CNC bottleneck?

KrASIA | IPO Archives

Venture Capital

Baidu's secondary listing to raise USD 3.1b

Baidu

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.

Internet giant and AI developer Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) will be raising about USD 3.1 billion from its secondary listing in Hong Kong, at a share price of HKD 252 (USD 32.5), which is 14.6% lower than the maximum target of HKD 295, according to its filing.

KEY STAT | Baidu kicks off 'homecoming' listing, remains short of its target | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Baidu kicks off &#8216;homecoming&#8217; listing, remains short of its target

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Julianna Wu

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Traveloka

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

Read stories of Travel service providers, platforms or the trending of the travel industry.

Travel

Indonesia

Part 1 covers the origins of Traveloka and the company's build-out from flight listings to much, much more.There have been turbulent moments for Traveloka's top brass.

In the top flight: Everything you need to know about Traveloka (Part 2 of 2) | KrASIA

In the top flight: Everything you need to know about Traveloka (Part 2 of 2)

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Khamila Mulia

Now worth around USD 3 billion, Traveloka is Southeast Asia's most popular online travel agency—and more.

In the top flight: Everything you need to know about Traveloka (Part 1 of 2) | KrASIA

In the top flight: Everything you need to know about Traveloka (Part 1 of 2)

70 A-share IPOs have been cancelled in 2021

Since the start of the year, 70 IPO applications on the A-share market have been aborted, compared with 43 in Q4 2020, according to local financial news outlet 21 Century Business Herald, which cited data from Wind. The majority of them has quit on a voluntary basis during the inspection.

KEY STAT | Inspection procedure is slowing China's IPO boom | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Inspection procedure is slowing China&#8217;s IPO boom

Nayuki brews up hip tea culture with IPO in sight

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Retail

Visual Stories

Founded in 2015, Nayuki has won over millions of Chinese consumers with its "new-style tea drinks"—a blend of fresh tea, milk foam, and fruit chunks served in a to-go bottle that is designed to keep lipstick stains off its rim. While coffee chains like Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and Luckin struggle to find their way in a country where tea is favored over coffee, Nayuki is brewing up an IPO in Hong Kong at a time when it racked up net losses to the tune of RMB 27.5 million (USD 4.26 million) in the first nine months of 2020.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Nayuki brews up hip tea culture with IPO in sight | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Nayuki brews up hip tea culture with IPO in sight

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

E-Commerce

Investment

On Thursday Coupang, the e-commerce company that over a decade has carved out a massive slice of South Korean retail, arrived on the New York Stock Exchange via a USD 4.6 billion initial public offering.

After Coupang soars in US IPO, can it deliver for the long term? | KrASIA

After Coupang soars in US IPO, can it deliver for the long term?

MENA

Music

Last week, Anghami became the first Arab technology company to announce that it’s going public through a listing on the Nasdaq in New York later this year after merging with a SPAC. As part of the deal, the company is expected to receive anywhere between USD 40 million and USD 210 million in cash from the SPAC and a separate PIPE investment.

Anghami’s journey to the public markets: Everything you need to know | KrASIA

Anghami’s journey to the public markets: Everything you need to know

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MENAbytes

Beijing-based question-and-answer platform Zhihu on Friday filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, less than two years after the company closed a USD 434 million Series F round led by Baidu and Kuaishou in August 2019. Details on the IPO have not been disclosed.

Chinese Q&A app Zhihu files for US IPO | KrASIA

Chinese Q&#038;A app Zhihu files for US IPO

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Song Jingli

Flipkart

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

India Tech

Walmart

India

The e-commerce giant, Flipkart, which was acquired by American retail titan Walmart in 2018 for USD 16 billion, is now mulling to merge with a SPAC to fast pace its listing process in the US, a report by Bloomberg said, citing sources.

Flipkart deliberates a SPAC merger to go public | KrASIA

Flipkart deliberates a SPAC merger to go public

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

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IPO

KEY STAT | Baidu kicks off ‘homecoming’ listing, remains short of its target

In the top flight: Everything you need to know about Traveloka (Part 2 of 2)

In the top flight: Everything you need to know about Traveloka (Part 1 of 2)

KEY STAT | Inspection procedure is slowing China’s IPO boom

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Nayuki brews up hip tea culture with IPO in sight

After Coupang soars in US IPO, can it deliver for the long term?

Anghami’s journey to the public markets: Everything you need to know

Chinese Q&A app Zhihu files for US IPO

Flipkart deliberates a SPAC merger to go public

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