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

China Tech

Investment

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 is backing strategic tech like drones and chips as general venture funds dry up.

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Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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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

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

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

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

KrASIA | News Archives

Baidu

With investor excitement cooling toward Chinese technology stocks, search engine operator Baidu edged just slightly higher on its market debut in Hong Kong on Tuesday, while streaming service Bilibili priced its stock sale well below the maximum it had set earlier.

Baidu fails to make splash with Hong Kong debut | KrASIA

Baidu fails to make splash with Hong Kong debut

Jakarta Police exposing online underage prostitution  conducted through MiChat, a Singaporean-based app. Screenshot from YouTube Humas Polda Metro Jaya.

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Indonesia

Singapore

MiChat portrays itself as a free messaging and online dating app.

Singaporean chat app under fire for alleged use in underage prostitution case | KrASIA

Singaporean chat app under fire for alleged use in underage prostitution case

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MENA

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

Riyadh-based fintech Hala (previously known as Halalah) has raised USD 6.5 million in a Series A round led by Impact46, which invested through their growth fund. The round also included participation of Wamda and other investors.

Saudi Arabia’s Hala raises USD 6.5 million Series A to become digital bank for SMEs | KrASIA

Saudi Arabia’s Hala raises USD 6.5 million Series A to become digital bank for SMEs

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MENAbytes

Myanmar

Myanmar coup

For many in Myanmar, it has been 50 days of agony since the February 1 coup. Starting with recurring nightly internet blackouts mid-February, the junta further throttled communications by blocking mobile internet services and shutting down all public WiFi services last week, leaving people’s livelihoods, information access, and the economy in tatters. It is costing lives, say local entrepreneurs and activists.

Myanmar’s internet blackouts are costing the economy and threaten lives | KrASIA

Myanmar’s internet blackouts are costing the economy and threaten lives

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KrASIA Writers

Vietnam

Vietnam's Vingroup said it is in talks with Taiwanese iPhone assembler Foxconn to produce batteries and other parts for electric vehicles, an industry that both companies are trying to crack.

Vingroup and Foxconn in talks over electric cars | KrASIA

Vingroup and Foxconn in talks over electric cars

Suning

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

E-Commerce

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

Retail

Suning will be able to sell assets through REITs, initial public offerings, and equity transfers.

Suning teams up with GLP to cash in on its logistics assets | KrASIA

Suning teams up with GLP to cash in on its logistics assets

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Song Jingli

Indonesian savings app, Pluang has raised USD 20 million in a pre-Series B round that was led by Openspace Ventures. Existing investors, including Go-Ventures, also participated. Co-founder and CEO Claudia Kolonas said in a statement that Pluang plans to expand its investment options in 2021, focusing on new financial products for simple and convenient access to a wider variety of asset classes

Indonesian savings app Pluang bags new funding amid investment boom in the country | KrASIA

Indonesian savings app Pluang bags new funding amid investment boom in the country

Deep Tech

Security

Just three months after emerging from stealth mode and raising USD 100 million, Israeli startup Wiz closed a funding round with USD 130 million and a company valuation of USD 1.7 billion, Hebrew-language media reported this week.

Cloud security startup Wiz, founded in 2020, raises USD 130 million | KrASIA

Cloud security startup Wiz, founded in 2020, raises USD 130 million

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Energy

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

MedTech

The Singapore Management University (SMU) on Friday announced the winners of its tenth Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition. The contest, which was organized by the university's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE)​​​​​​​, received over 850 entries from 650 universities across 60 countries.