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

China Tech

Honor

Deep Tech

Smartphones

With its striking design and powerful AI capabilities, the Magic V3 sets the stage for Honor’s dominance in the foldable phone market.

Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe | KrASIA

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Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe

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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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36Kr English

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

Japan, Korea, and the West

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

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

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

Apple and Tencent square off again—this time over China’s booming minigames market.

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues | KrASIA

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues

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

E-Commerce

Retail

New COO Zheng Shuohuai takes on the challenge of aligning Sam’s Club’s e-commerce and offline operations as Walmart China sharpens its omnichannel strategy.

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle | KrASIA

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle

KrASIA | News Archives

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.

Singapore

The startup is developing industry-specific models for pharma, materials, and other industries.

Singapore unicorn PatSnap to expand AI-powered patent search | KrASIA

Singapore unicorn PatSnap to expand AI-powered patent search

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

Angel Investing

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

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

Deals in brief: Bateriku raises Series B funding, Antler invests in TailorTech, three China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Bateriku raises Series B funding, Antler invests in TailorTech, three China deals, and more

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Central Asia

Deals in brief: BillEase secures Series C funding, AC Ventures joins Oatside’s Series B round, seven China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: BillEase secures Series C funding, AC Ventures joins Oatside’s Series B round, seven China deals, and more

Haidilao

Zhang Junjie, founder of Chagee, joins Haidilao as an independent director, hinting at possible expansion into tea beverages.

Chagee’s founder joins Haidilao’s board, signaling potential tea venture | KrASIA

Chagee’s founder joins Haidilao’s board, signaling potential tea venture

Content

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

Entertainment

Video

Japan

Artificial intelligence

New services can automate backgrounds, coloring, and other time-consuming work.

Japan's anime industry looks to AI to solve labor crunch | KrASIA

Japan&#8217;s anime industry looks to AI to solve labor crunch

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

Didi

India

Deals in brief: Didi takes stake in AutoAi, Validus secures USD 50 million debt facility from HSBC, Genesia Ventures backs LaLa, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Didi takes stake in AutoAi, Validus secures USD 50 million debt facility from HSBC, Genesia Ventures backs LaLa, and more

Xpeng

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Xpeng’s new chip, designed to meet the demands of end-to-end large models, aims to push the company closer to achieving full autonomous driving.

Xpeng’s new chip powers its push toward full driving autonomy | KrASIA

Xpeng’s new chip powers its push toward full driving autonomy

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Fashion

Thailand

FMG's Benlai chain adds more Chinese stores and plans overseas debut in Thailand.

China's answer to Zara has a sister brand that ditches jeans for yoga pants | KrASIA

China&#8217;s answer to Zara has a sister brand that ditches jeans for yoga pants

Indonesia

Deals in brief: TransTRACK secures USD 12 million for Southeast Asia push, Lokatani nets pre-seed funding, Living Lab Ventures backs Lamudi parent DCG, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: TransTRACK secures USD 12 million for Southeast Asia push, Lokatani nets pre-seed funding, Living Lab Ventures backs Lamudi parent DCG, and more