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

China Tech

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

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.

Creative

Deep 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

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

Game titles like Honor of Kings and Valorant remain key drivers of Tencent’s growth.

Tencent’s operating profit climbs 19%, fueled by gaming and fintech gains | KrASIA

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Tencent’s operating profit climbs 19%, fueled by gaming and fintech gains

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

Bilibili

Content

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Video

Bilibili has turned profitable, driven by rising user engagement and effective monetization strategies.

Bilibili posts first-ever profit as ad and gaming revenues surge | KrASIA

Bilibili posts first-ever profit as ad and gaming revenues surge

Japan

Singapore

Japanese startups made a strong impression at this year’s SWITCH, unveiling innovative tech solutions primed for global applications.

Japan’s startups find new pathways to global markets at SWITCH | KrASIA

Japan’s startups find new pathways to global markets at SWITCH

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KrASIA Writers

KrASIA | News Archives

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

Alibaba

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

E-Commerce

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Retail

"The internet industry is not a place outside the anti-monopoly law," said the State Administration for Market Regulation.

KEY STAT | Alibaba, China Literature, and Hive Box fined by market regulator for violating anti-trust laws | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Alibaba, China Literature, and Hive Box fined by market regulator for violating anti-trust laws

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

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

The group-buying sector is also increasingly facing headwinds from suppliers.

JD pours USD 700 million into Xingsheng as neighborhood group-buying draws attention from state | KrASIA

JD pours USD 700 million into Xingsheng as neighborhood group-buying draws attention from state

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Song Jingli

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

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

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

MedTech

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

The fresh investment would value ByteDance at USD 180 billion.

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR | KrASIA

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR

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

India Tech

Disney+ entered India in early April through Hotstar and garnered about 18.5 million paying user by September-end.

Disney+ Hotstar accounts for 30% of Disney+ subscribers globally | KrASIA

Disney+ Hotstar accounts for 30% of Disney+ subscribers globally

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Alibaba is reportedly planning to inject USD 3 billion into Grab, which would make it its largest venture in Southeast Asia.

Ovo and Lazada Indonesia announce partnership, as Alibaba moves closer to Grab | KrASIA

Ovo and Lazada Indonesia announce partnership, as Alibaba moves closer to Grab

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Ursula Florene

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

Security

APT32, the hacking group, has a history of launching operations that are aligned with the Vietnamese government's interests.

Facebook traces advanced hacking group to Vietnamese IT firm | KrASIA

Facebook traces advanced hacking group to Vietnamese IT firm

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Stephanie Li

Bukalapak

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Buka Investasi Bersama will launch four new products and has a target to serve 500,000 mutual funds investors on its platform in 2021.

Bukalapak fintech subsidiary sells 20% stake to Ashmore Indonesia | KrASIA

Bukalapak fintech subsidiary sells 20% stake to Ashmore Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Health Tech

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

A newly-established health lab in Xi'an includes areas for experimental smart-wearable product testing and sports health innovation development.

Huawei tops the global wrist-wearable market, exec says | KrASIA

Huawei tops the global wrist-wearable market, exec says

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.

Electric Vehicles

Nio's shares surged 19-fold in the past twelve months.