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

Alibaba

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

China Tech

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

Taobao

Tmall

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

E-Commerce

Retail

China's shopping bonanza sees record highs for some brands, yet consumer wariness signals an evolving retail environment.

Singles' Day still delivers, but cautious consumers keep spending in check | KrASIA

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Singles&#8217; Day still delivers, but cautious consumers keep spending in check

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Xiaomi races to scale production with new factories as surging EV orders strain supply.

Xiaomi Auto ramps up EV production as record demand tests capacity | KrASIA

Xiaomi Auto ramps up EV production as record demand tests capacity

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

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

Semiconductors

Specializing in data center chips, Marvell rides the AI wave, carving out a place beside Nvidia.

China’s Marvell rides AI boom, gaining ground alongside Nvidia as stock doubles | KrASIA

China’s Marvell rides AI boom, gaining ground alongside Nvidia as stock doubles

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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

Digital Banks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

MENA

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

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NoCamels

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.

Trash pickup takes a quantum spin in Myanmar's biggest city | KrASIA

Trash pickup takes a quantum spin in Myanmar&#8217;s biggest city

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

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

Social Impact

The tool is tapping WeChat’s humongous user base, which now stands at 1.2 billion.

KEY STAT | WeChat Work productivity app reveals active users for the first time | KrASIA

KEY STAT | WeChat Work productivity app reveals active users for the first time

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Julianna Wu

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

The domestic artificial meat market is still in a preliminary stage, analyst says.

Chinese cell-based meat startups Zhouzi Weilai, CellX raise money to push commercialization | KrASIA

Chinese cell-based meat startups Zhouzi Weilai, CellX raise money to push commercialization

Agriculture

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com, Meituan, Pinduoduo, and Didi have been summoned by the regulators.

Chinese internet giants get government warning in group-buying spree | KrASIA

Chinese internet giants get government warning in group-buying spree

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Song Jingli

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

India Tech

India

According to the report, these companies would collectively have over 70 million resellers by 2025.

Social commerce sector expected to reach USD 7 billion by 2025 in India | KrASIA

Social commerce sector expected to reach USD 7 billion by 2025 in India

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