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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.

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

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Douyin

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

Entertainment

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

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

Faker’s latest championship sparked a surge on Douyin, underscoring the platform’s rapid rise as a hub for esports content.

China’s esports streaming heats up as Douyin draws top IP and talent | KrASIA

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China’s esports streaming heats up as Douyin draws top IP and talent

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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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Extra-regional trade is forecasted to grow USD 1.2 trillion in ten years, but deficits with China soar.

Southeast Asia expands trade as a neutral hub in a divided world | KrASIA

Southeast Asia expands trade as a neutral hub in a divided world

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

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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.

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

Deals in brief: Oneteam and Locad raise funding, Atome Financial lands syndicated credit facility, Panmnesia nets over USD 60 million, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Oneteam and Locad raise funding, Atome Financial lands syndicated credit facility, Panmnesia nets over USD 60 million, and more

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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

Honor of Kings and Game for Peace are losing users, but they still are the two most popular mobile games in China

Infographic | Tencent's blockbuster games are losing users to short video | KrASIA

Infographic | Tencent&#8217;s blockbuster games are losing users to short video

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Chinese mobile users spend over 6 hours online per day on average.

Infographic | China's mobile internet traffic is reaching growth ceiling, says QuestMobile | KrASIA

Infographic | China&#8217;s mobile internet traffic is reaching growth ceiling, says QuestMobile

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

Alibaba

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Enterprise services and medical health stand out to become both the VCs and CVCs' favorites amid a depressed fund-raising environment

Infographic | Where did the investment money go in the 2019 capital winter | KrASIA

Infographic | Where did the investment money go in the 2019 capital winter

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

Didi

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

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

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.

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

2019 turns out to be an eventful year for Chinese tech tycoons. Hear what those who rein in the powerhouses have to say to wrap up the year.

Infographic | What did the bosses say about China tech 2019 | KrASIA

Infographic | What did the bosses say about China tech 2019

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

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

Kuaishou

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

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

E-Commerce

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

On-Demand Services

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 bi-annual internet report published by the Chinese government provides insights of various internet sectors’ current developments.

Doing it all: How the Chinese internet has changed over the decade | KrASIA

Doing it all: How the Chinese internet has changed over the decade

E-sports earnings are largely relying on games themselves instead of competitions and clubs.

Infographic | Chinese e-sports industry earned USD 14 billion revenue in 2019 | KrASIA

Infographic | Chinese e-sports industry earned USD 14 billion revenue in 2019

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

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

Over 3 million employees work for 20,000 express delivery companies in China.

Infographic | China delivered half of the world’s parcels in 2019 | KrASIA

Infographic | China delivered half of the world’s parcels in 2019

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Technology investment in Southeast Asia reached record US$11 billion in 2018 | KrASIA

Technology investment in Southeast Asia reached record US$11 billion in 2018

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