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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

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

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

Social Impact

Facebook admitted that it is facing additional pressure from the Vietnamese government.

Facebook, YouTube are tools of Vietnamese censorship and harassment: Amnesty | KrASIA

Facebook, YouTube are tools of Vietnamese censorship and harassment: Amnesty

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Stephanie Li

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Indonesia

Indonesia's digital platforms have experienced a number of significant data breaches this year.

New Indonesian data protection bill to allow victims to sue platforms for leaks | KrASIA

New Indonesian data protection bill to allow victims to sue platforms for leaks

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Ursula Florene

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

Alibaba

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

Music

The Hangzhou-based internet giant also owns a minority stake in the Netease Cloud Music service.

Alibaba's music streaming app Xiami is said to be shutdown | KrASIA

Alibaba&#8217;s music streaming app Xiami is said to be shutdown

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

WM Motor raised the largest amount of funds in Q3: USD 1,5 billion

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

WM Motor

Xpeng

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

KPMG expects a rise in M&A activity in the near future.

KEY STAT | China accounted for 8 of Asia’s 10 biggest VC deals in Q3 2020 | KrASIA

KEY STAT | China accounted for 8 of Asia’s 10 biggest VC deals in Q3 2020

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Julianna Wu

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

The move helps to close the “last-mile gap in Singapore’s e-payments journey,” said MAS managing director Ravi Menon.

Non-bank e-wallets in Singapore to get access to PayNow and FAST | KrASIA

Non-bank e-wallets in Singapore to get access to PayNow and FAST

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Vulcan Post

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

China's largest on-demand service platform has been one of the slowest tech giants to rebound from the impact of COVID-19, but the recovery is underway.

Meituan shows strong recovery as China's service economy rebounds | KrASIA

Meituan shows strong recovery as China&#8217;s service economy rebounds

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AJ Cortese

Participants of the Jewish-Arab Hackathon gather at Margalit Startup City headquarters in Jerusalem. Courtesy of Jewish-Arab Hackathon.

MENA

At the event, developers formed working groups to map out models for their ideas.

First Jewish-Arab hackathon in Jerusalem to build new projects for city | KrASIA

First Jewish-Arab hackathon in Jerusalem to build new projects for city

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NoCamels

Prop Tech

Ziroom now manages properties of nearly 500,000 owners in nine cities including Shenzhen and Shanghai, and rents to about 3 million tenants.

SoftBank-backed Ziroom acquires Bestbond, as Danke’s problems cause industry-wide turbulence | KrASIA

SoftBank-backed Ziroom acquires Bestbond, as Danke’s problems cause industry-wide turbulence

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Song Jingli

Community e-commerce app Nice Tuan raised USD 196 million

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

E-Commerce

Retail

China's grocery group-buying sector is gaining steam as the pandemic is boosting demand.