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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 | News Archives

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

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

India's startup ecosystem, which bounced back from the COVID-19 induced slump in the second half of 2020, is seeing an increased interest from global investors.Homegrown startups raised USD 3.65 billion in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 13.4% over the corresponding period last year, local media Economic Times (ET) said, citing data from intelligence platform Tracxn. Another research firm, Venture Intelligence, puts this number at USD 4.2 billion, 40% higher than that in the first quarter of 2020 when Indian startups raised USD 3.5 billion.

Global investors bet big on Indian startups, investing billions into country | KrASIA

Global investors bet big on Indian startups, investing billions into country

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

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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

Japan, Korea, and the West

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Indonesia

Facebook is planning to build two new undersea cables with partners to connect Indonesia, Singapore, and the United States and boost internet capacity in Southeast Asia.The social network will work with Google and Indonesian telco XL Axiata on Echo, a cable that is expected to be completed in late 2023. It will team up with Telin, a subsidiary of Indonesia's Telkom, and Singaporean conglomerate Keppel for the development of a separate cable named Bifrost, which will be finalized in 2024.

Facebook is building Southeast Asia's new internet infrastructure | KrASIA

Facebook is building Southeast Asia&#8217;s new internet infrastructure

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Khamila Mulia

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

E-Commerce

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

Facebook-backed social commerce giant Meesho said Monday it has raised USD 300 million in its Series E round of funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing the startup at USD 2.1 billion.The funding round also saw participation from Facebook, Prosus Ventures, Shunwei Capital, Venture Highway, and Knollwood Investment.

Social commerce startup Meesho reaches unicorn status as SoftBank, Facebook, and others infuse USD 300 million | KrASIA

Social commerce startup Meesho reaches unicorn status as SoftBank, Facebook, and others infuse USD 300 million

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Avanish Tiwary

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

Malaysia

Blockchain payments firm Ripple, which is known for helping develop digital currency XRP, has acquired a 40% stake in Malaysian cross-border payment startup Tranglo to gear up for its expansion in Southeast Asia, the firm announced on its website on March 30. The investment took place even as Ripple has an ongoing legal fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States.

Unimpeded by SEC lawsuit, Ripple is set to supercharge Southeast Asia’s cross-border remittances | KrASIA

Unimpeded by SEC lawsuit, Ripple is set to supercharge Southeast Asia’s cross-border remittances

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Stephanie Li

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

Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services. 

Space Tech

Israeli weather intelligence platform ClimaCell announced this week that it has completed a USD 77 million Series C funding round led by private equity firm Stonecourt Capital, with participation from Highline Capital.This brings the company’s total funding to over USD 185 million to date.The company also announced that they are changing the name of the their firm to Tomorrow.io.

Weather platform ClimaCell raises USD 77 million, relaunches as Tomorrow.io | KrASIA

Weather platform ClimaCell raises USD 77 million, relaunches as Tomorrow.io

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

Alibaba

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

Xiaomi

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Private Equity

Shenzhen-based power bank providers Soudian and Jiedian will merge to jointly establish a new company, under which the two brands will continue operating independently, 36Kr reported on Friday, citing official announcements.A new board of directors will be set up by the parent company, with a joint CEO system to decide on the future strategies of the two brands, according to the announcement. Jiedian and Soudian will share their resources in supply chain management, customer services, software, and hardware development while maintaining their original businesses.

Power bank providers Soudian and Jiedian merge to amp up challenge against newly listed firm Energy Monster  | KrASIA

Power bank providers Soudian and Jiedian merge to amp up challenge against newly listed firm Energy Monster 

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Song Jingli

WeDoctor Hong Kong IPO to raise USD 3 billion

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

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

Health Tech

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

MedTech

Internet hospital and health maintenance platform WeDoctor filed a prospectus for a Hong Kong IPO on Thursday night. The company expects to raise up to USD 3 billion, according to 36Kr.The company generated revenue to the tune of RMB 1.8 billion (USD 280 million) in 2020, more than three times higher than that of the year before. Losses in 2020 were RMB 1.9 billion (USD 290 million), a gentle 1.1% decline year-on-year.

KEY STAT | Tencent-backed online hospital WeDoctor files for IPO | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Tencent-backed online hospital WeDoctor files for IPO

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Julianna Wu

Porsche Asia Pacific and Shell jointly announced the implementation of Southeast Asia’s first cross-border high-performance charging (HPC) network on Wednesday.The network will feature 12 charge points at six Shell stations strategically located along Malaysia’s North-South highway. It offers electric vehicle (EV) drivers the ability to travel from Singapore to Penang without having to worry about their vehicles running out of power.

Porsche and Shell to build cross-country charging network for EVs between Malaysia and Singapore | KrASIA

Porsche and Shell to build cross-country charging network for EVs between Malaysia and Singapore

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Fashion

Homegrown short video app Chingari has raised USD 13 million in a new round led by Bengaluru-headquartered mobile entertainment company OnMobile.Other investors who participated in this round include American investment firms Republic Labs and White Star Capital, Indian VC fund Astarc Ventures, JPIN Venture Catalysts, a cross-border investment platform for startups between UK and India, and Singapore-based VC firm ProfitBoard Ventures, among others. Prior to this, Chingari had raised USD 1.4 million from a series of angel investors last year.