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

China Tech

Li Auto

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

MENA

Li Auto is shifting to dealer networks for its expansion into the Middle East and Central Asia, aiming for flexibility.

Li Auto expands overseas with dealer partnerships in Middle East, Central Asia | KrASIA

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Li Auto expands overseas with dealer partnerships in Middle East, Central Asia

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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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Creative

Fashion

Retail

By empowering suppliers, flexing production, and building a versatile business model, Shein has raced to the top of global fashion.

How Shein’s strategy pushed it past H&M, Zara, and the rest | KrASIA

How Shein’s strategy pushed it past H&#038;M, Zara, and the rest

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.

China's "entrepreneurship for everyone" era ends as state sets agenda | KrASIA

China&#8217;s &#8220;entrepreneurship for everyone&#8221; era ends as state sets agenda

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

India Tech

Smartphones

India

With an aim to launch its super app for India’s 907 million internet users, the digital arm of Tata Sons—the country’s one of the largest multinational corporations—Tata Digital, is in talks with 25-year-old online listing company JustDial to explore a strategic partnership that includes buying stakes in the latter.

India's Tata in talks to partner with online classifieds giant JustDial before launching its own super app | KrASIA

India&#8217;s Tata in talks to partner with online classifieds giant JustDial before launching its own super app

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Avanish Tiwary

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Singapore

Singapore's Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Baey Yam Keng on Friday announced that e-scooter and electric bicycle riders will soon have to take “mandatory theory tests.” The tests will help ensure all riders of such motorized devices are aware of the existing rules and codes of conduct.

E-scooter and e-bike riders in Singapore must take theory tests from mid-2021 | KrASIA

E-scooter and e-bike riders in Singapore must take theory tests from mid-2021

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Social Impact

Myanmar

As social media emerges to become a virtual battleground for Myanmar's anti-coup protesters galvanizing support from the international community, apps and websites are springing up to help local consumers to identify products and businesses associated with the military.

Myanmar protestors use apps to boycott military-linked products and businesses | KrASIA

Myanmar protestors use apps to boycott military-linked products and businesses

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KrASIA Writers

Beijing-based question-and-answer platform Zhihu on Friday filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, less than two years after the company closed a USD 434 million Series F round led by Baidu and Kuaishou in August 2019. Details on the IPO have not been disclosed.

Chinese Q&A app Zhihu files for US IPO | KrASIA

Chinese Q&#038;A app Zhihu files for US IPO

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Song Jingli

BeautyCam owner Meitu's investment in crypto: USD 40m

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

Meitu (HKEX: 1357), the company behind selfie app BeautyCam, said on Sunday that it purchased ether and bitcoin worth USD 22.1 million and USD 17.9 million, respectively, in the open market last week, making it the first major Chinese tech company to invest in cryptocurrencies.

KEY STAT | Beauty app Meitu becomes first Chinese tech firm to invest in crypto | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Beauty app Meitu becomes first Chinese tech firm to invest in crypto

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Julianna Wu

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

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Ryde said on Monday that it is preparing an IPO on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange for next year, aiming for a SGD 200 million (USD 148.9 million) valuation.

Singaporean ride-hailing app Ryde plans local IPO in 2022 | KrASIA

Singaporean ride-hailing app Ryde plans local IPO in 2022

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Ursula Florene

Flipkart

Walmart

The e-commerce giant, Flipkart, which was acquired by American retail titan Walmart in 2018 for USD 16 billion, is now mulling to merge with a SPAC to fast pace its listing process in the US, a report by Bloomberg said, citing sources.

Flipkart deliberates a SPAC merger to go public | KrASIA

Flipkart deliberates a SPAC merger to go public

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Moulishree Srivastava

Chinese electric vehicle company Nio and its contract manufacturer JAC will create a joint venture to build intelligent EVs, among other products, according to a letter of intent JAC filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday.

Nio forms JV with automaker JAC in attempt to take production in-house | KrASIA

Nio forms JV with automaker JAC in attempt to take production in-house

Venture debt firm Trifecta Capital said Friday it has closed its second fund launched in 2019, at USD 140 million, recording a slight oversubscription from its initial target of USD 137 million. Trifecta Capital had raised USD 103 million in March last year for the Fund-II.

News

India’s Tata in talks to partner with online classifieds giant JustDial before launching its own super app

E-scooter and e-bike riders in Singapore must take theory tests from mid-2021

Myanmar protestors use apps to boycott military-linked products and businesses

Chinese Q&A app Zhihu files for US IPO

KEY STAT | Beauty app Meitu becomes first Chinese tech firm to invest in crypto

Singaporean ride-hailing app Ryde plans local IPO in 2022

Flipkart deliberates a SPAC merger to go public

Nio forms JV with automaker JAC in attempt to take production in-house

Venture debt fund Trifecta Capital closes second fund with USD 140 million

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