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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?

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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

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

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

E-Commerce

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

Retail

India

With an eye to deepen its reach in offline retail, Amazon India has acquired Perpule, a Bengaluru-based retail tech startup that offers point-of-sale (POS) devices to brick-and-mortar shops allowing them to accept digital payments.

Amazon buys Indian retail tech startup Perpule to extend reach to offline retailers | KrASIA

Amazon buys Indian retail tech startup Perpule to extend reach to offline retailers

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Avanish Tiwary

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

Alibaba

Grocery Delivery

Investment

Just four months after its last round, group-buying startup Nice Tuan on Wednesday said that it raised another USD 750 million in its Series D round, from investors including Alibaba, DST Global, and GGV Capital, 36Kr reported.

KEY STAT | Alibaba-backed Nice Tuan closes another big-ticket investment | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Alibaba-backed Nice Tuan closes another big-ticket investment

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Julianna Wu

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

Xiaomi

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.

Smartphones

CEO Lei Jun also presented Xiaomi's first-ever foldable phone, as well as an in-house developed chipset.

Xiaomi enters EV sector with USD 10 billion of its own cash | KrASIA

Xiaomi enters EV sector with USD 10 billion of its own cash

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Song Jingli

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

India Tech

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Mumbai-based gaming and sports media company, Nazara Technologies, made a bumper debut on Indian public markets, National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Tuesday.The shares of the country's leading gaming company, which made the initial public offer of INR 583 crore (USD 80 million) between March 17 and 19 and was subscribed 175.6 times, were listed at around 8o% premium over the issue price on the two stock exchanges.

Indian online gaming firm Nazara Technologies lists shares at over 80% premium | KrASIA

Indian online gaming firm Nazara Technologies lists shares at over 80% premium

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

CEO of Airasia, Tony Fernandes, announced that it will be diving into the ride-hailing scene, reported The Edge. While the launch date of the service is yet to be confirmed, Fernandes seems to be confident, telling Malay Mail that he is unfazed by ride-hailing giants like Grab.

Unfazed by Grab, AirAsia will soon join the ride-hailing race in Malaysia | KrASIA

Unfazed by Grab, AirAsia will soon join the ride-hailing race in Malaysia

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According to the Hurun Global and India Rich List 2021, India, home to the third-largest base of billionaires in the world after China and the US, saw 55 new billionaires last year, which took the number of ultra-rich up to 177. When Indian-origin, overseas billionaires are tallied in, the total count stands at 207.

India added at least one billionaire a week in 2020: Hurun Report | KrASIA

India added at least one billionaire a week in 2020: Hurun Report

Fashion

SoftBank-backed Indian baby care products omnichannel retailer FirstCry, which reportedly looks to get listed in the next 18-24 months, has just raised USD 315 million from private equity investors including TPG Capital, ChrysCapital, and Premji Invest.

Indian baby care startup FirstCry valued at nearly USD 2 billion | KrASIA

Indian baby care startup FirstCry valued at nearly USD 2 billion

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

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

On-Demand Services

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

Beijing-based logistics startup FlashEx, also known as Shansong, said on Tuesday that it closed its Series D2 round raising USD 125 million from investors including Shunwei Capital, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), and N5 Capital.

Chinese delivery firm FlashEx scores USD 125 million from Shunwei, SIG | KrASIA

Chinese delivery firm FlashEx scores USD 125 million from Shunwei, SIG

Valuation of Didi's self-driving unit: USD 6 billion

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

Didi

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

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is in the process of raising up to USD 500 million for its self-driving unit, Didi Woya, at a valuation of USD 6 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source.