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Japanese consumers—known for their high standards—are lining up for hours to get their hands on Vivaia’s eco-friendly shoes. Why?

The secret behind Vivaia’s success in Japan’s footwear market | KrASIA

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The secret behind Vivaia’s success in Japan’s footwear market

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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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With lithium prices dropping and competition growing, automakers are adjusting to slower growth in the electric vehicle market worldwide.

EV market faces slower growth as global competition intensifies | KrASIA

EV market faces slower growth as global competition intensifies

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

China Tech

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: DCM Ventures to sell Kuaishou shares, Momos raises Series A funding, five China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: DCM Ventures to sell Kuaishou shares, Momos raises Series A funding, five China deals, and more

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

Alibaba

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

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

E-Commerce

The ascent of e-commerce behemoths in China tells us consumers don’t care whether the platforms they use are backed by foreign capital.

Chinese capital and know-how are boons for e-commerce in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Chinese capital and know-how are boons for e-commerce in Southeast Asia

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Luna Lin

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

Entertainment

Visual Stories

More than 80% of the movie tickets were purchased online, while online streaming platforms and bullet chats form the new movie-watching experience in China.

From audience to users: China's new "movie-going" trends shaped by internet | KrASIA

From audience to users: China&#8217;s new &#8220;movie-going&#8221; trends shaped by internet

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Julianna Wu

Bilibili

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

The number of Chinese users paying for knowledge will hit 387 million this year.

How Bilibili, Kuaishou, Douyin are fostering Chinese youngsters' education | KrASIA

How Bilibili, Kuaishou, Douyin are fostering Chinese youngsters&#8217; education

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

India doesn’t have large tech acquirers to keep buying startups; IPO is the only certain path to a sustainable venture capital market.

Why are Indian companies shying away from going public? | KrASIA

Why are Indian companies shying away from going public?

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Blume Ventures

A move in line with Alibaba's Double H strategy.

Alibaba's affiliates invest USD 1 billion in China's major physical examination platform Meinian Healthcare | KrASIA

Alibaba&#8217;s affiliates invest USD 1 billion in China&#8217;s major physical examination platform Meinian Healthcare

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Song Jingli

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

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

On average, a Hongkonger uses a digital wallet two or three times a week, but only one-third in city are classified as heavy users at four to six times a week.

Hong Kong needs a mindset change for digital payments to become more accepted, experts say | KrASIA

Hong Kong needs a mindset change for digital payments to become more accepted, experts say

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SCMP

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

On-Demand Services

Luckin is taking a page from the likes of Starbucks to sell coffee mugs as an extra revenue source.

Other than coffee, Luckin now wants to sell merchandised cups in China | KrASIA

Other than coffee, Luckin now wants to sell merchandised cups in China

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

Its revenue was up by 17.7% year-on-year.

China's largest private courier SF Holding sees H1 net profits rise by 40.4% | KrASIA

China&#8217;s largest private courier SF Holding sees H1 net profits rise by 40.4%

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

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.

Digitalization is seeping into Chinese homes in the form of smart lamps, fridges and ACs.

China's traditional home appliance makers turn 'smart' | KrASIA

China&#8217;s traditional home appliance makers turn &#8216;smart&#8217;

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Opinion

Chinese capital and know-how are boons for e-commerce in Southeast Asia

From audience to users: China’s new “movie-going” trends shaped by internet

How Bilibili, Kuaishou, Douyin are fostering Chinese youngsters’ education

Why are Indian companies shying away from going public?

Alibaba’s affiliates invest USD 1 billion in China’s major physical examination platform Meinian Healthcare

Hong Kong needs a mindset change for digital payments to become more accepted, experts say

Other than coffee, Luckin now wants to sell merchandised cups in China

China’s largest private courier SF Holding sees H1 net profits rise by 40.4%

China’s traditional home appliance makers turn ‘smart’

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