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Focus turns to the authorities’ next moves as miners hope for a sustainable recovery.

China crackdown boosts lithium prices, but how long can the rally last?

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How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

How do policies adjust to a data-rich world? Explore usage-based coverage, automated claims, and analytics guiding risk assessment.

Insurance

The insurer is ramping up investments even as earnings weaken and its shares trade at a discount to peers.

Ping An’s equity spree faces investor doubts as profits fall

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Economy

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

With Haidilao and Xiabu Xiabu trading at depressed valuations, Banu’s listing faces questions over growth, governance, and consumer demand.

Banu’s Hong Kong IPO runs into weak investor appetite for hotpot chains

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

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Creative

Apple designs iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers, coupling sleek hardware with robust software ecosystems and service offerings.

Apple

ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

NetEase, a Chinese Internet services firm, offers online gaming, music streaming, and e-commerce platforms, engaging millions of digital users.

NetEase

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

Apple and TikTok maker ByteDance are asking for developers to show game licenses as China tightens its grip on video game publishing.

Why Apple’s new rules for games in China could spell trouble for indies

Apne11 is a multiplayer, mobile-based fantasy game that is based on real-life international cricket matches.

Apne11 is the new entrant in India's fantasy gaming space: Startup Stories

Apne11 is the new entrant in India&#8217;s fantasy gaming space: Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

Minecraft gamers are using online blueprints to digitally rebuild two medical centers used to help fight the coronavirus.

Minecraft players are recreating China’s rapidly built Wuhan hospitals

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

Trung Nguyen is on a mission to make a blockchain game accessible to everyone.

This Vietnamese developer is behind one of the world's most popular blockchain games: Profiles in Tech

This Vietnamese developer is behind one of the world&#8217;s most popular blockchain games: Profiles in Tech

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Thu Huong Le

King Pro League, featuring Tencent’s Honor of Kings, will be held online.

Coronavirus moves major Chinese e-sports tournament from stadium to virtual space

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Education

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

Enterprise Services

What happens when viewers join in real time? Explore live streaming platforms, audience interaction tools, and brand opportunities in instant video.

Live Streaming

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

Short Video

How can businesses drive positive change? Study policies, ESG strategies, and community initiatives fostering global social advancement.

Social Impact

Videos

As many cities are under some form of quarantine, daily life has changed considerably.

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak

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James Chan

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

What medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

How do visuals captivate global viewers? Dive into streaming services, production models, and evolving formats defining video engagement.

Video

Visual Stories

Mobile games, short-video apps, and online medical services are some sectors who saw growth.

Infographic | Coronavirus-impacted economy brings new opportunities to these tech sectors

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Julianna Wu

WeGame, Tencent’s answer to Steam, lets gamers try Subnautica, Hitman Go, My Time at Portia and Chinese Parents for free.

Tencent offers two-hour free trial for 55 PC games amid coronavirus outbreak

Three of the top five free mobile games in China on the first day of Lunar New Year were published by ByteDance, showing early signs of a challenge to Tencent.