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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

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

China Tech

Content

Creative

Creator Economy

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

Entertainment

With Xiaohongshu-inspired design and TikTok’s global pull, Lemon8 is gaining traction abroad.

ByteDance’s Lemon8 borrows from Xiaohongshu, but can it keep users hooked? | KrASIA

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ByteDance’s Lemon8 borrows from Xiaohongshu, but can it keep users hooked?

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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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

As competition intensifies, Porsche is betting on intelligent features to revive its lagging sales in China.

Porsche ramps up R&D in China to reclaim its edge amid slowing sales | KrASIA

Porsche ramps up R&#038;D in China to reclaim its edge amid slowing sales

MENA

Singapore

From Dubai to Singapore and beyond, GITEX is gaining attention for creating a platform that unites tech sectors and bridges digital divides worldwide.

What sets GITEX apart from CES, IFA, and other tech expos? | KrASIA

What sets GITEX apart from CES, IFA, and other tech expos?

KrASIA | Insights Archives

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

Eurazeo

europe

private equity

Q&amp;A

China’s merger and acquisition market is still immature, which makes it an interesting opportunity for private equity firms like Eurazeo.

Europe's largest PE: China's venture capital scene is vibrant enough, M&A market begets new opportunities | KrASIA

Europe&#8217;s largest PE: China&#8217;s venture capital scene is vibrant enough, M&#038;A market begets new opportunities

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Robin Moh

Financial inclusion can have measurable impacts on global issues such as poverty, inequality, and migration.

Grab partners up with local player to bring financial inclusion to Vietnam | KrASIA

Grab partners up with local player to bring financial inclusion to Vietnam

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

Vietnam is on the cusp of a mobile payment revolution, and the key factor to raising adoption is whether the e-wallets could become ubiquitous locally.

Vietnam strides towards cashless society with e-wallets boom | KrASIA

Vietnam strides towards cashless society with e-wallets boom

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Elaine Huang

Optimism might be the answer to China's slowdown in growth.

Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent: China might have a tech bubble, but not necessarily a bad thing | KrASIA

Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent: China might have a tech bubble, but not necessarily a bad thing

The remittance processor expects to get listed in 2021.

Singaporean InstaReM raises Series C with a big plan for Indonesia | KrASIA

Singaporean InstaReM raises Series C with a big plan for Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Ant Financial

Dana

Emtek

Go-Jek

Go-Pay

mobile wallets in Indonesia

Ovo+Grab+Tokopedia; Go-Pay+Go-Jek+JD.id; Dana+BBM+Bukalapak

Phase three in Indonesia's 'wallet wars': pairing with e-commerce platforms | KrASIA

Phase three in Indonesia&#8217;s &#8216;wallet wars&#8217;: pairing with e-commerce platforms

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Nadine Freischlad

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

Travel

Expedia

indonesia

online travel

Tourism promotion fits snugly into Grab's vision of becoming a single destination for content, commerce, and activities across Southeast Asia.

Wonderful Indonesia tied up with Grab to promote Indonesian tourism in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Wonderful Indonesia tied up with Grab to promote Indonesian tourism in Southeast Asia

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

Alibaba

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.

A major upgrade in the hotel industry is underway, driven by an internet company.

Alibaba’s new hotel: robot bellboys and face-recognition gimmick | KrASIA

Alibaba’s new hotel: robot bellboys and face-recognition gimmick

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KrASIA Writers

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

With a rising middle class, Golden Education found a surge in demand for financial education in China.

Finance education platform Golden Education scored RMB80m from Hillhouse Capital and Morgan Stanley with 3M active users on top of 50K corporate clients | KrASIA

Finance education platform Golden Education scored RMB80m from Hillhouse Capital and Morgan Stanley with 3M active users on top of 50K corporate clients

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