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

China Tech

Creative

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

Infinity Nikki’s open world fuses fashion and exploration, offering a fresh take on the dress-up game genre.

Infinity Nikki’s beta teases AAA potential in female-focused gaming | KrASIA

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Infinity Nikki’s beta teases AAA potential in female-focused gaming

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

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

Japan

Singapore

Vietnam

TSE’s recent seminars in Singapore and Vietnam showcase Japan’s capital market as a promising IPO destination for Southeast Asian companies.

A new path to IPO: Tokyo Stock Exchange courts Southeast Asia’s startups | KrASIA

A new path to IPO: Tokyo Stock Exchange courts Southeast Asia’s startups

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KrASIA Writers

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

India

Indonesia

Philippines

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Kipin Edutech wins top prize at Temasek Foundation Education Challenge, Indonesia’s Cards raises seed funding, Jollibee acquires Tim Ho Wan, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Kipin Edutech wins top prize at Temasek Foundation Education Challenge, Indonesia’s Cards raises seed funding, Jollibee acquires Tim Ho Wan, and more

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Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

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

On-Demand Services

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

Meituan has been criticized by regulators in Beijing for monopolistic practices before, notably for exploiting merchants with coercive exclusivity agreements.

Meituan hit with anti-monopoly lawsuit for ditching Alipay | KrASIA

Meituan hit with anti-monopoly lawsuit for ditching Alipay

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AJ Cortese

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

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

Transportation

The government wants tech-based consumer services to cover seniors too.

China pushes for friendlier digital transportation services for seniors | KrASIA

China pushes for friendlier digital transportation services for seniors

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Wency Chen

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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.

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

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

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

E-Commerce

Retail

New battleground for internet giants threatens small businesses.

China's community group-buying fever meets Beijing's snub | KrASIA

China&#8217;s community group-buying fever meets Beijing&#8217;s snub

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

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Coin Master is Moon Active's most popular game. Courtesy of Moon Active via NoCamels.

MENA

Coin Master is Moon Active's most popular game, doubling the company's revenue to USD 1.1 billion this year.

Israel's Moon Active acquires Belarus game developer Melsoft | KrASIA

Israel&#8217;s Moon Active acquires Belarus game developer Melsoft

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Baidu

Bilibili

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

Entertainment

Video

Bilibili is using its cachet in anime to set it apart from Tencent and iQiyi.

Bilibili lands in Thailand, Malaysia in streaming race against Tencent and iQiyi | KrASIA

Bilibili lands in Thailand, Malaysia in streaming race against Tencent and iQiyi

Online healthcare portal DXY raises USD 500 million

Health Tech

Tencent has backed DXY's medical professional community platform since 2014.

KEY STAT | DXY bags half a billion dollars to shore up forum for medical community | KrASIA

KEY STAT | DXY bags half a billion dollars to shore up forum for medical community

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Julianna Wu

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

India Tech

Major venture capital firms doubled down on early-stage deals as they sought to back the firms catering to the post-pandemic needs of consumers and enterprises.

Indian startups raise USD 9.3 billion in 2020 | KrASIA

Indian startups raise USD 9.3 billion in 2020

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

USD 194 billionn wiped from Alibaba's market cap since Dec. 24

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

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

Social Impact

Alibaba's stock saw its largest ever single-day dive in New York.

KEY STAT | Alibaba stock dives as regulators probe monopolistic practices | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Alibaba stock dives as regulators probe monopolistic practices

Insurance

Lending

Live Streaming

Tech giants feel a new chill with heightened scrutiny on monopolistic practices.