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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

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

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

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

Digital Banks

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

E-Commerce

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

Retail

An "offline wallet" function will enable mobile payments without the need to be connected to the internet.

China's digital yuan is tested for online shopping, as JD.com joins trial in Suzhou | KrASIA

China&#8217;s digital yuan is tested for online shopping, as JD.com joins trial in Suzhou

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

The past few months have witnessed Indian digital payment sector's meteoric growth, an achievement accompanied by spiking transaction failure from outdated bank infrastructure.

Rising transaction failure rate challenges India’s digital payment sector | KrASIA

Rising transaction failure rate challenges India’s digital payment sector

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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

Tiktok

Bigo is not for sale, an insider tells 36Kr.

A Bigo VP has left over short-video app Likee's sluggish monetization growth: Report | KrASIA

A Bigo VP has left over short-video app Likee&#8217;s sluggish monetization growth: Report

Health Tech

Japanese pharma aims to develop new drugs based on big medical data.

Eisai and JD.com to launch online dementia service in China | KrASIA

Eisai and JD.com to launch online dementia service in China

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

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Flipkart

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

India Tech

PhonePe

India

Walmart has also led a funding of USD 700 million in PhonePe.

Flipkart spins off payment arm PhonePe to fuel future growth | KrASIA

Flipkart spins off payment arm PhonePe to fuel future growth

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Avanish Tiwary

AutoX now runs 25 driverless robotaxis in China

AutoX

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

Mobility

In August, Alibaba-backed AutoX opened a robotaxi ride-hailing service in Shanghai.

KEY STAT | AutoX sends China's first driverless robotaxis on the road | KrASIA

KEY STAT | AutoX sends China&#8217;s first driverless robotaxis on the road

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Julianna Wu

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

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

On-Demand Services

"Speculation on this topic is and continues to be inaccurate," say Gojek's co-CEOs.

Grab and Gojek tell employees to ignore merger rumors | KrASIA

Grab and Gojek tell employees to ignore merger rumors

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Khamila Mulia

China Venture Roundup

China Venture Roundup Volume 12 covers investment activity in China from 22 - 29 November 2020.

China Venture Roundup Volume 12 | The edtech startup that raised USD 265 million in Series C | KrASIA

China Venture Roundup Volume 12 | The edtech startup that raised USD 265 million in Series C

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KrASIA Venture Roundup

Semiconductors

SMIC responded in a statement that its services and products have never had any military applications.

News

China’s digital yuan is tested for online shopping, as JD.com joins trial in Suzhou

Rising transaction failure rate challenges India’s digital payment sector

A Bigo VP has left over short-video app Likee’s sluggish monetization growth: Report