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

China Tech

Cotti Coffee

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MENA

Coffee

Middle East

Nowwa follows Cotti in expanding to the Middle East, targeting growth in an untapped market for Chinese coffee brands.

Chinese coffee brands set sights on Middle East as next big market | KrASIA

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Chinese coffee brands set sights on Middle East as next big market

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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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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

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Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Insider raises USD 500 million, UOB FinLab funds ASEAN green tech pilots, six China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Insider raises USD 500 million, UOB FinLab funds ASEAN green tech pilots, six China deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

MiniMax’s Talkie app defies AI market skeptics with USD 70 million in projected revenue, but can it replicate its success?

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom | KrASIA

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom

KrASIA | Insights Archives

Just to be Special: The Dark Side of Food Vlogging

The reason that attracts Internet Users to view these videos remains unclear: Perhaps some enjoys seeing the delicious food and some are getting the pleasure of seeing others’ self-inflicting acts and self-tortures.

Just to be Special: The Dark Side of Food Vlogging | KrASIA

Chauncey Jung works with a unicorn Internet firm based out of Beijing. His professional experience pays him off an insider perspective over China’s internet industry. Completed his bachelor and master education in Canada, Chauncey is obsessed with trending technologies and economic developments across Asia. He can be reached at chaunceyzhang@foxmail.com.

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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

Tencent works on new retail mainly to promote the expansion of three businesses: financial payment, cloud computing, and advertising.

Pony MA: Why Tencent Is Spending so Much Money Purchasing Shares of Offline Retail Enterprises? | KrASIA

Pony MA: Why Tencent Is Spending so Much Money Purchasing Shares of Offline Retail Enterprises?

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ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

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

On-Demand Services

In China, there is a saying that ‘people treat food as god’. In this most populated country in the world, food is the number one issue at all time.

How Food Delivery Applications Turned Big in The Nation of Culinary? | KrASIA

How Food Delivery Applications Turned Big in The Nation of Culinary?

It all feels like Déjà Vu - what is happening now to Uber Southeast Asia & its employees.

Those young people at Uber Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Those young people at Uber Southeast Asia

Momentum Works builds, scales and manages tech ventures across the emerging world, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia. We combine strategic understanding, execution experience, network of partners, and a great team to make things happen. In addition to building ventures and joint-ventures, we also consult on strategy, venture financing &amp; all areas of operations. Website: www.momentum.asia Our blog: http://thelowdown.momentum.asia/

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MomentumWorks

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

Didi

In a monopoly, customers will pay more than they would in a competitive market.

Turning Monopoly into a Duopoly?--Chinese Ride-sharing Business Enters the Path of Competition, again | KrASIA

Turning Monopoly into a Duopoly?&#8211;Chinese Ride-sharing Business Enters the Path of Competition, again

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

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

Transportation

At the end of the day, SoftBank is the winner in ride-hailing.

Is SoftBank Really Orchestrating A Merger between Uber and Didi Chuxing? | KrASIA

Is SoftBank Really Orchestrating A Merger between Uber and Didi Chuxing?

I'm Xiaochun with KrASIA [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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In a development forum, Rolin Li spoke about Chinese users’ view on personal privacy, saying that the Chinese users are ‘less sensitive’ to trading away their privacies for more conveniences.

Trading Privacy for Conveniences: How Chinese Internet Users are Struggling in Their High Techs? | KrASIA

Trading Privacy for Conveniences: How Chinese Internet Users are Struggling in Their High Techs?

Bytedance General Manager ZHANG Nan: Tik Tok Meshes with China’s Consumption Upgrade Trends (Part 2)

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

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