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

China Tech

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

MiniMax’s Talkie app defies AI market skeptics with USD 70 million in projected revenue, but can it replicate its success?

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom | KrASIA

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Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom

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

KrASIA

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

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

Alibaba

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

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

Taobao

Temu

Tmall

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

E-Commerce

Pioneered by Pinduoduo, the policy has become a burden on platforms and merchants.

China's e-commerce industry pushes back on "no-return" refunds | KrASIA

China&#8217;s e-commerce industry pushes back on &#8220;no-return&#8221; refunds

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

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

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

KrASIA | News Archives

GSX Techedu's revenue increase in 2020: 237%

Edtech

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

GSX Techedu (NYSE: GSX), an online tutoring platform, reported a 236.9% year-on-year increase in its 2020 revenues that hit USD 1.1 billion, the Beijing-based company announced on Friday.

KEY STAT | Edtech firm GSX reports revenue increase as expenses widen | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Edtech firm GSX reports revenue increase as expenses widen

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Julianna Wu

Health Tech

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

On-Demand Services

Indonesia

The drive-through vaccination center at the Jakarta International Expo in Kemayoran, North Jakarta, comprises of four posts. Assistants are verifying IDs and registration status at the entry, and once cleared, visitors will move to the second post to undergo a health check, including blood pressure, oxygen saturation level, and history of comorbidity. Patients without problems are being ushered to the third stop where they finally will be injected with the Sinovac vaccine.

Indonesia reels in its unicorns to accelerate vaccination program | KrASIA

Indonesia reels in its unicorns to accelerate vaccination program

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Ursula Florene

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

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

Indonesian fintech platform Payfazz announced on Thursday that it invested USD 30 million in Xfers, a Singapore-based payments infrastructure company. As part of the deal, both firms also formed a new entity named Fazz Financial Group (FFG).

Payfazz and Xfers form Fazz Financial Group to take on Gojek and Grab | KrASIA

Payfazz and Xfers form Fazz Financial Group to take on Gojek and Grab

Eddy Maroun and Elie Habib, founders of Anghami. Courtesy of Anghami via MENAbytes.

Creative

Music

Anghami will become the first Arab technology company to list on Nasdaq and will trade under the symbol ANGH.

Anghami to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at USD 220 million valuation | KrASIA

Anghami to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at USD 220 million valuation

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MENAbytes

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

India Tech

Retail

India

A slew of internet-first brands (IFB), popularly known as direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, are giving traditional incumbents across segments a run for their money in the world's second-most populous country.

Internet-first startups are taking on traditional brands in India | KrASIA

Internet-first startups are taking on traditional brands in India

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Chinese online travel agency Trip.com (Nasdaq: TCOM)  reported RMB 5 billion (USD 761 million) in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020, down 40% year-on-year (YoY), mainly due to the negative impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the company's earnings release on Thursday.

Trip.com's revenue decline slows in Q4, as it expects a strong travel rebound | KrASIA

Trip.com&#8217;s revenue decline slows in Q4, as it expects a strong travel rebound

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Song Jingli

13,000 new hires for ByteDance's education unit

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

Douyin

Tiktok

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and Douyin, is hiring thousands of new talents for its education product Dali over the next four months, the company said in one of its WeChat accounts last Friday. The new positions cover teaching, product design, visual design, and community management, among others.

KEY STAT | ByteDance to boost education business with 13,000 new hires | KrASIA

KEY STAT | ByteDance to boost education business with 13,000 new hires

Biotech

Hong Kong-based biotechnology company Insilico Medicine is expected to start clinical trials before the end of the year for a drug that was discovered by its AI system.

Insilico Medicine to test AI-discovered drug candidate on humans this year | KrASIA

Insilico Medicine to test AI-discovered drug candidate on humans this year

Food Delivery

Alibaba Group Holding has reached a deal that is to be announced Thursday under which it will buy a leading Bangladeshi online meal delivery service in one of its first international forays in the fast-growing sector.Alibaba took full control of Ele.me, China's second-largest food delivery service, in 2018.