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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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Nikkei Asia

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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36Kr English

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

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

Alibaba

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Baidu

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

Taobao

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

Xiaomi

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

Lending

China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) and four other government bodies have specified that all micro loan firms in the country cannot extend consumer loans to university students, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

China bans microlenders from granting consumer loans to university students | KrASIA

China bans microlenders from granting consumer loans to university students

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Song Jingli

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Malaysia

Malaysian grocery app Jocom on Thursday announced that it successfully listed on Singapore’s first regulated private securities exchange 1exchange, raising SGD 5.6 million (USD 4.2 million). The funds will go towards the group’s expansion to West Malaysian states like Johor and Penang and to overseas markets, including Indonesia and Australia.

Malaysian grocery app Jocom raises funds via listing on Singapore's 1exchange | KrASIA

Malaysian grocery app Jocom raises funds via listing on Singapore&#8217;s 1exchange

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Vulcan Post

IPO of IoT cloud platform Tuya raises USD 915 million

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

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.

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.

Tencent-backed internet of things (IoT) cloud platform Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA) opened for trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, raising USD 915 million with at an initial offering price of USD 21, higher than its original target of USD 20. The stock finished the session at USD 25, up 19%.

KEY STAT | Stock of Chinese IoT cloud software Tuya rallies in NYSE debut | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Stock of Chinese IoT cloud software Tuya rallies in NYSE debut

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Julianna Wu

Sea Group

Shopee

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

E-Commerce

Indonesia

Indonesia's government keeps nudging its state-owned enterprises to digitalize their operations by tapping the local tech startups. The two sides have started to cooperate on projects and new products, while the corporate venture capital arms of the SOEs—BRI Ventures, Mandiri Capital, and Telkom Group's MDI Ventures—are funneling money into the tech firms.

In Indonesia, more tech startups and SOEs are teaming up, but does everybody win? | KrASIA

In Indonesia, more tech startups and SOEs are teaming up, but does everybody win?

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Ursula Florene

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

India Tech

India

Indian e-commerce and consumer internet companies raised over USD 8 billion in private equity and venture capital across 400 plus deals in 2020, said a report released on Thursday by Ernst & Young and Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA). Although, given the funding blip in the second quarter of 2020, these companies attracted 20% lesser than the USD 10.3 billion they raised in 2019.

Indian e-commerce and consumer internet companies raised over USD 8 billion in 2020 | KrASIA

Indian e-commerce and consumer internet companies raised over USD 8 billion in 2020

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Samsung

Semiconductors

Smartphones

The chip shortage that had slowed automobile manufacturing has now spread to the production of smartphones and personal computers, threatening to derail a post-pandemic economic recovery.The shortage spurred by strong chip demand during the pandemic has been exacerbated by the shutdown of a Samsung plant in Texas following a winter storm. The chip fabrication plant responsible for 5% of global supply has been idled since Feb. 16, causing widespread repercussions through the supply chain.

Samsung chip fallout threatens smartphone and PC supplies | KrASIA

Samsung chip fallout threatens smartphone and PC supplies

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

E-commerce giant Alibaba is planning to launch a mini program on Tencent's WeChat platform as the company has been outpaced by Pinduoduo for the first time. The latter said on Wednesday that it recorded 788.4 million active buyers last year, surpassing Alibaba's 779 million

Surpassed by Pinduoduo, Alibaba plans to tap WeChat for new users | KrASIA

Surpassed by Pinduoduo, Alibaba plans to tap WeChat for new users

Baidu's secondary listing to raise USD 3.1b

Internet giant and AI developer Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) will be raising about USD 3.1 billion from its secondary listing in Hong Kong, at a share price of HKD 252 (USD 32.5), which is 14.6% lower than the maximum target of HKD 295, according to its filing.

KEY STAT | Baidu kicks off 'homecoming' listing, remains short of its target | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Baidu kicks off &#8216;homecoming&#8217; listing, remains short of its target

Singapore

China's internet giants continue to expand their operations in Singapore at a breathtaking pace. Baidu-backed video streaming service iQiyi, which made the city its international headquarter in December, on Wednesday announced that it will set up a talent management agency together with local media company GHY Culture & Media.

China's tech titans turn Singapore into their new overseas hub | KrASIA

China&#8217;s tech titans turn Singapore into their new overseas hub

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News

China bans microlenders from granting consumer loans to university students

Malaysian grocery app Jocom raises funds via listing on Singapore’s 1exchange

KEY STAT | Stock of Chinese IoT cloud software Tuya rallies in NYSE debut

In Indonesia, more tech startups and SOEs are teaming up, but does everybody win?

Indian e-commerce and consumer internet companies raised over USD 8 billion in 2020

Samsung chip fallout threatens smartphone and PC supplies

Surpassed by Pinduoduo, Alibaba plans to tap WeChat for new users

KEY STAT | Baidu kicks off ‘homecoming’ listing, remains short of its target

China’s tech titans turn Singapore into their new overseas hub

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