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Japanese consumers—known for their high standards—are lining up for hours to get their hands on Vivaia’s eco-friendly shoes. Why?

The secret behind Vivaia’s success in Japan’s footwear market | KrASIA

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The secret behind Vivaia’s success in Japan’s footwear market

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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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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Europe

India

With lithium prices dropping and competition growing, automakers are adjusting to slower growth in the electric vehicle market worldwide.

EV market faces slower growth as global competition intensifies | KrASIA

EV market faces slower growth as global competition intensifies

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

China Tech

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

Kuaishou

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

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: DCM Ventures to sell Kuaishou shares, Momos raises Series A funding, five China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: DCM Ventures to sell Kuaishou shares, Momos raises Series A funding, five China deals, and more

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JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

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

E-Commerce

E-commerce

JD.com

Jingdong

The Chinese e-commerce company surpassed market expectations with strong growth after a year of intense price competition.

JD.com surges amid year of low prices, signaling major recovery | KrASIA

JD.com surges amid year of low prices, signaling major recovery

Creative

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

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

live-streaming

Short video

social commerce

social e-commerce

Kuaishou has committed to providing customers with more choices and better experiences, but how will it deliver on these promises?

Kuaishou adopts "user-first" e-commerce strategy to win over customers | KrASIA

Kuaishou adopts &#8220;user-first&#8221; e-commerce strategy to win over customers

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

CEO Lee Kai-Fu also said that 01.AI is aiming to generate RMB 100 million in revenue this year through its productivity-focused Wanzhi product line.

01.AI’s newest closed-source model said to outperform GPT-4 across six benchmarks | KrASIA

01.AI’s newest closed-source model said to outperform GPT-4 across six benchmarks

Li Auto

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Tesla

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

Xpeng

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Transportation

autonomous driving

self-driving

Self-driving cars

There's no standout leader in China's autonomous driving landscape yet, but Tesla's influence has ignited Level 3 ambitions.

The current state of self-driving across China in 2024 | KrASIA

The current state of self-driving across China in 2024

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

Douyin

Tiktok

Content

Video

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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Jeff Chay

Rising logistics costs and heightened competition are increasing the strain on cross-border furniture businesses like Ziel.

Are furniture exports still a lucrative business? | KrASIA

Are furniture exports still a lucrative business?

Despite the recent success of the iCar 03, Chery still has more ground to cover if it intends to catch up with its NEV competitors.

Chery must shed its “old shell” to lead the NEV race | KrASIA

Chery must shed its “old shell” to lead the NEV race

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

supply chain

supply chains

Japan, Taiwan, and US supplier numbers dip as the iPhone maker expands in Southeast Asia.

Apple moves closer to China despite supply chain shifts | KrASIA

Apple moves closer to China despite supply chain shifts

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

Cost, performance, and safety—developers of advanced driver assistance systems currently face the challenge of simultaneously meeting all three factors.