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

China Tech

Honor

Deep Tech

Smartphones

With its striking design and powerful AI capabilities, the Magic V3 sets the stage for Honor’s dominance in the foldable phone market.

Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe | KrASIA

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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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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

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

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

Apple and Tencent square off again—this time over China’s booming minigames market.

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues | KrASIA

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues

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

E-Commerce

Retail

New COO Zheng Shuohuai takes on the challenge of aligning Sam’s Club’s e-commerce and offline operations as Walmart China sharpens its omnichannel strategy.

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle | KrASIA

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle

KrASIA | IPO Archives

Venture Capital

Edtech

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's childhood education apps have gathered 10.3 million monthly active users in the second quarter of 2020, up 222% year-on-year.

Edtech firm iHuman surges 33.3% in NYSE debut | KrASIA

Edtech firm iHuman surges 33.3% in NYSE debut

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Song Jingli

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

Didi

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

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Didi Chuxing's carpooling service, Hitch, faced significant setbacks when two passengers were killed by drivers using its app in separate incidents.

Carpooling platform Dida beats frontrunner Didi Chuxing to IPO filing | KrASIA

Carpooling platform Dida beats frontrunner Didi Chuxing to IPO filing

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

Entertainment

Music

In 2019, Big Hit Entertainment surpassed the combined profit of South Korea's big three entertainment labels SM, JYP, and YG.

BTS label to debut on the public market as the Kpop band sweeps the globe | KrASIA

BTS label to debut on the public market as the Kpop band sweeps the globe

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

JD Health IPO to raise at least USD 3 billion

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

It's also the second spinoff from JD.com to go public so far this year.

KEY STAT | JD Health files for USD 3 billion Hong Kong IPO | KrASIA

KEY STAT | JD Health files for USD 3 billion Hong Kong IPO

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Julianna Wu

Luckin Coffee

And there are more penalties coming its way.

KEY STAT | Nasdaq-delisted coffee chain Luckin gets its first fine | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Nasdaq-delisted coffee chain Luckin gets its first fine

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

Paytm

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.

Indian technology companies have been trying to distance themselves from their Chinese backers amidst the ongoing political tension.

Ant Group's IPO documents indicate its joint control in Indian payments firm Paytm | KrASIA

Ant Group&#8217;s IPO documents indicate its joint control in Indian payments firm Paytm

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

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

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

Visual Stories

The firm has greater ambitions than just being the operator behind payment platform Alipay.

IPO