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Creative

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

Entertainment

A trading card resurgence led by China’s youth could ignite a new pop culture wave.

China’s collectible card craze: Kayou and major IPs drive a growing market | KrASIA

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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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Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Wavemaker Partners launches USD 30 million growth fund, Dossier clinches pre-seed funding, AC Ventures fuels Collektr’s APAC push, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Wavemaker Partners launches USD 30 million growth fund, Dossier clinches pre-seed funding, AC Ventures fuels Collektr’s APAC push, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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.

Biotech

Deep Tech

Health Tech

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Baidu CEO’s life sciences startup sees artificial intelligence as the inevitable force driving transformation in drug discovery and biotech

BioMap envisions AI as the future of life sciences | KrASIA

BioMap envisions AI as the future of life sciences

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Flipkart

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

India Tech

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

E-Commerce

India

Flipkart Wholesale, the B2B arm of the Flipkart Group reported a 22.3% dip in losses in FY 20.

Flipkart saw annual loss widen by 20% in latest financial year | KrASIA

Flipkart saw annual loss widen by 20% in latest financial year

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Avanish Tiwary

SMIC

Semiconductors

MSCI is removing SMIC from its Global Investable Market Indexes.

SMIC co-CEO Liang Mongsong departs as the company hires former TSMC exec | KrASIA

SMIC co-CEO Liang Mongsong departs as the company hires former TSMC exec

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

To date, Helicap has facilitated around USD 40 million in alternative lending to more than 150,000 SMEs and individuals.

Singapore's Helicap partners Credit Saison to help low-income borrowers and micro-entrepreneurs: CEO | KrASIA

Singapore&#8217;s Helicap partners Credit Saison to help low-income borrowers and micro-entrepreneurs: CEO

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Ursula Florene

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

Food Tech

The San Francisco-based food tech startup also revealed plans to build its first Asia production facility for Just Egg, a plant-based product, in Singapore.

For the first time ever, 'no-kill' meat is available for diners in Singapore | KrASIA

For the first time ever, &#8216;no-kill&#8217; meat is available for diners in Singapore

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Stephanie Li

Chinese share in global stock offering, 2020: 37%

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

The USD 129 billion raised in 2020 mark a historical high for Chinese companies.

KEY STAT | Chinese companies raised record-breaking amount of money in global IPOs | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Chinese companies raised record-breaking amount of money in global IPOs

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Julianna Wu

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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

Xiaomi

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Smartphones

Robust orders come as smartphone industry faces severe parts shortages.

Apple plans 30% boost in iPhone production for first half of 2021 | KrASIA

Apple plans 30% boost in iPhone production for first half of 2021

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

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Baidu

Li Auto

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

WM Motor

Xpeng

Electric Vehicles

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

Transportation

The share of new energy vehicles in China is predicted to rise to 20% of overall new car sales by 2025.

Baidu considers entry into electric vehicle production: Report | KrASIA

Baidu considers entry into electric vehicle production: Report

Ola Cabs, is an Indian origin online transportation network company developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of December 2018, Ola was valued at about $5.7 billion. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.

Battery

In May, Ola Electric acquired Amsterdam-based electric two-wheeler OEM Etergo BV to make an entry into this market.

Ola invests USD 326 million to set up world's largest EV manufacturing facility | KrASIA

Ola invests USD 326 million to set up world&#8217;s largest EV manufacturing facility

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

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News

Flipkart saw annual loss widen by 20% in latest financial year

SMIC co-CEO Liang Mongsong departs as the company hires former TSMC exec

Singapore’s Helicap partners Credit Saison to help low-income borrowers and micro-entrepreneurs: CEO

For the first time ever, ‘no-kill’ meat is available for diners in Singapore

KEY STAT | Chinese companies raised record-breaking amount of money in global IPOs

Apple plans 30% boost in iPhone production for first half of 2021

Baidu considers entry into electric vehicle production: Report

Ola invests USD 326 million to set up world’s largest EV manufacturing facility

Indian agritech startup Arya raises USD 21 million

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