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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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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

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

India Tech

India

Bengaluru-based fintech startup Cred that allows users to pay their credit card bills and earn rewards, is on its way to land into a unicorn club. The three-year-old firm is in the advanced stage of discussions to raise USD 200 million at a valuation of USD 2 billion, a report by TechCrunch said, citing sources.

Fintech startup Cred in talks to raise USD 200 million at USD 2 billion valuation | KrASIA

Fintech startup Cred in talks to raise USD 200 million at USD 2 billion valuation

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Chinese short video giant ByteDance has started to develop cloud AI and server chips based on ARM architecture, Semiinsights.com reported on Tuesday, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The company, which owns TikTok and Douyin, has been recruiting semiconductor talent to be based in Beijing and Shanghai for about one month, information on recruitment site Liepin shows. ByteDance declined to comment when contacted by KrASIA on Tuesday.

ByteDance to design AI chips amid China’s tech independence drive | KrASIA

ByteDance to design AI chips amid China’s tech independence drive

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Song Jingli

70 A-share IPOs have been cancelled in 2021

Since the start of the year, 70 IPO applications on the A-share market have been aborted, compared with 43 in Q4 2020, according to local financial news outlet 21 Century Business Herald, which cited data from Wind. The majority of them has quit on a voluntary basis during the inspection.

KEY STAT | Inspection procedure is slowing China's IPO boom | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Inspection procedure is slowing China&#8217;s IPO boom

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Julianna Wu

Baidu

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

Autonomous driving pioneer Baidu has received approval from the Cangzhou government in the Hebei province to charge passengers for robotaxi rides, the company announced in a release on Monday. Baidu will be first in China to experiment with monetization mechanisms for these services, "marking a landmark step on Baidu Apollo’s road to commercialization," it said.

Baidu will be charging robotaxi passengers in Cangzhou on a trial basis | KrASIA

Baidu will be charging robotaxi passengers in Cangzhou on a trial basis

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

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

Singapore

London-headquartered fintech firm Wise announced the appointment of two new director designates to its board: Tan Hooi Ling, co-founder of Southeast Asian super app Grab, and Clare Gilmartin, former CEO of digital rail ticketing platform Trainlin

Wise appoints Grab co-founder, ex-Trainline CEO to its board | KrASIA

Wise appoints Grab co-founder, ex-Trainline CEO to its board

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Tech in Asia

MENA

Across the board, women need more representation in Israel's tech enterprises.

'Glass ceiling hasn't cracked' for women in senior tech roles in Israel | KrASIA

&#8216;Glass ceiling hasn&#8217;t cracked&#8217; for women in senior tech roles in Israel

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Food Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Indonesia

Food delivery continues to experience significant growth in Indonesia. Esensi Solusi Buana (ESB) has created a cloud-based mobile ordering system that syncs up with a restaurant's point of service and kitchen management. It allows food outlets to launch their own online delivery service, and so save the commission they would pay to Grab or Gojek.

Indonesian SaaS platform ESB helps restaurants deliver food | KrASIA

Indonesian SaaS platform ESB helps restaurants deliver food

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Ursula Florene

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

Maple Capital projects the capital inflow in homegrown gaming firms will double to over USD 1 billion in the next 12 to 18 months

Indian gaming startups raised over USD 500 million in the last six months | KrASIA

Indian gaming startups raised over USD 500 million in the last six months

Kunlun, the AI chip unit of internet giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), has reportedly reached a valuation of USD 2 billion after a new round of funding. CITIC Private Equity Funds Management was leading the fundraising that was joined by a group of investors including IDG Capital and Legend Capital, an unidentified source told Reuters.

News

Fintech startup Cred in talks to raise USD 200 million at USD 2 billion valuation

ByteDance to design AI chips amid China’s tech independence drive

KEY STAT | Inspection procedure is slowing China’s IPO boom

Baidu will be charging robotaxi passengers in Cangzhou on a trial basis

Wise appoints Grab co-founder, ex-Trainline CEO to its board

‘Glass ceiling hasn’t cracked’ for women in senior tech roles in Israel

Indonesian SaaS platform ESB helps restaurants deliver food

Indian gaming startups raised over USD 500 million in the last six months

KEY STAT | Baidu closes funding round for AI chip segment

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