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

China Tech

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

E-Commerce

Fashion

Retail

Companies are using star athletes to capture market share amid a fitness boom.

Chinese sportswear brands flood into Southeast Asia in search for growth | KrASIA

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Chinese sportswear brands flood into Southeast Asia in search for growth

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

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Nikkei Asia

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

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

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

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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

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

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

Entertainment

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

Insurance

Lending

Live Streaming

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

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

Chinese regulators order Ant group to 'rectify' business, return to 'payment roots' | KrASIA

Chinese regulators order Ant group to &#8216;rectify&#8217; business, return to &#8216;payment roots&#8217;

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

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Wency Chen

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Food Delivery

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

Ride-hailing

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

Transportation

Tan 'CEO for life' bid spurs investor backlash in talks between ASEAN unicorns

Grab demands strong control by founder in Gojek merger | KrASIA

Grab demands strong control by founder in Gojek merger

MENA

Deep Tech

Security

The most common IP addresses that were sources for hackers were linked to Russian networks.

Israel is top target for hackers and cybercriminals, report says | KrASIA

Israel is top target for hackers and cybercriminals, report says

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NoCamels

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

India Tech

Paytm

The Noida-headquartered payment and financial services firm aims to become profitable by 2022.

Paytm cuts down losses by 30%, says on path to being profitable by 2022 | KrASIA

Paytm cuts down losses by 30%, says on path to being profitable by 2022

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Digital Banks

Alibaba is bearing the brunt in a new campaign targeting influential Chinese tech giants.

Alibaba faces anti-monopoly probe by Chinese regulator | KrASIA

Alibaba faces anti-monopoly probe by Chinese regulator

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

Investment

The high-flying company this year already snagged USD 3.5 billion from investors.

Tencent-backed edtech unicorn Yuanfudao bags USD 300 million from Yunfeng Capital | KrASIA

Tencent-backed edtech unicorn Yuanfudao bags USD 300 million from Yunfeng Capital

In February, Facebook closed 13 fake accounts and 10 pages in Myanmar and Vietnam with links to Mytel, Viettel and Gapit Communications, a PR firm in Vietnam.

We are calling for the Myanmar public to boycott Mytel, says Myanmar activist group  | KrASIA

We are calling for the Myanmar public to boycott Mytel, says Myanmar activist group 

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Stephanie Li

For Israel's tech firms and venture capitalists, 2020 was the year of the IPO.

Israeli tech deals increase 55% in 2020 | KrASIA

Israeli tech deals increase 55% in 2020

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Nippon Koei and big-data startup Groovenauts will crunch combinations for shortest truck routes.