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Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

Temasek

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

India

Philippines

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more

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

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Marvin Goh

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

China's foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught | KrASIA

China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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

Alibaba

Taobao

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

Tmall

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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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

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.

KrASIA | Short Video Archives

Creative

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

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

TikTok owner ByteDance still generates most its revenue from China, despite the app’s rapid international expansion.

TikTok overtakes Facebook to become world’s second most downloaded app | KrASIA

TikTok overtakes Facebook to become world’s second most downloaded app

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

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

KrASIA attended Tencent's WeChat annual flagship conference in Guangzhou.

WeChat to enhance short-form content on its platform, says creator Allen Zhang | KrASIA

WeChat to enhance short-form content on its platform, says creator Allen Zhang

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

TikTok parent ByteDance rakes in USD 20 billion revenue in 2019, up 180% year-on-year: Report | KrASIA

TikTok parent ByteDance rakes in USD 20 billion revenue in 2019, up 180% year-on-year: Report

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

The short-video app captured 80 million more users in the past six months.

ByteDance's Douyin hits over 400 million daily active users | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin hits over 400 million daily active users

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

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

Entertainment

Online mobile engagement is driven by smart devices, digitization in the offline retail industry and live streaming, according to research firm QuestMobile.

Chinese mobile users now spend over 6 hours every day online – that’s almost 2 full days a week | KrASIA

Chinese mobile users now spend over 6 hours every day online – that’s almost 2 full days a week

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

Didi

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Social Impact

In China, users spent an average of 600 million cumulative hours watching short-form videos, according to the 2019 Internet Trend Report.

How a decade of smartphone apps changed the way people live, work, and play in China | KrASIA

How a decade of smartphone apps changed the way people live, work, and play in China

Here’s a breakdown of how Chinese short-video app operators are spreading their rivalry to other continents.

One step further: Chinese short-video apps take the world by storm | KrASIA

One step further: Chinese short-video apps take the world by storm

ByteDance’s advisors are said to be pitching a range of options to protect the value of the business.

ByteDance denies rumors of selling TikTok stake to address US pressure | KrASIA

ByteDance denies rumors of selling TikTok stake to address US pressure

CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala has been a battlefield for Chinese tech companies.