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In just months, Labubu’s Thai fan base has made Pop Mart’s biggest overseas success story.

Pop Mart’s Labubu breaks records in Thailand—can the trend go global? | KrASIA

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Pop Mart’s Labubu breaks records in Thailand—can the trend go global?

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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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Indonesia

Kupang students gain essential English language and hydroponic skills through the new initiative, opening doors to stronger career paths and brighter futures.

Backed by UNDP’s Catalytic Fund, Cakap launches skill-building program for Kupang students | KrASIA

Backed by UNDP’s Catalytic Fund, Cakap launches skill-building program for Kupang students

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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

Vietnam

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

Deals in brief: Coolmate and PangoCDP secure funding, Chickin confirms Series A+ round, eight China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Coolmate and PangoCDP secure funding, Chickin confirms Series A+ round, eight China deals, and more

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Robotics

An increasing proportion of young people no longer willing to wait tables in China as restaurant owners look to new technology for answers.

Are robot waiters the answer to China's labor shortage? | KrASIA

Are robot waiters the answer to China&#8217;s labor shortage?

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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

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

Only 15% of teenagers make public posts on the Tencent-owned platform.

Teens are shunning WeChat, showing shifting tastes in Chinese social media | KrASIA

Teens are shunning WeChat, showing shifting tastes in Chinese social media

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

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 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.

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

On-Demand Services

From financial services for the unbanked to new IoT solutions for the poultry industry, these Indonesian startups provide new technologies to solve some of the nation's problems.

Solutions for social issues in an emerging economy: Early Stage | KrASIA

Solutions for social issues in an emerging economy: Early Stage

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Cindy Silviana

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

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

Titles freeze, longer approval processes for IPO are among hindrances faced by small and mid-sized game publishers.

Chinese gaming firms tap South Korean capital amid headwinds in home market | KrASIA

Chinese gaming firms tap South Korean capital amid headwinds in home market

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Sun Henan

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

Netflix

Apple TV launched at monthly rate of USD 1.4 in India to take on Netflix and Amazon Prime

Apple needs content, not cut-rate price, to win India entertainment market | KrASIA

Apple needs content, not cut-rate price, to win India entertainment market

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

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Chinese customers can start pre-ordering new iPhone 11 this Friday, Apple’s China website shows.

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

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

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 US phone maker has some key questions left unanswered: price, 5G and trade war.

Can iPhone 11 turn around Apple's fortunes in China? | KrASIA

Can iPhone 11 turn around Apple&#8217;s fortunes in China?

With a growing pool of talent, well-trained labor for production, and keen interest from investors, Vietnam is presenting itself as one of the hottest destinations for tech startups in Southeast Asia.

VCs remain bullish about Vietnam as the region's next growth market | KrASIA

VCs remain bullish about Vietnam as the region&#8217;s next growth market

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Thu Huong Le

Ola Cabs, is an Indian origin online transportation network company developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of December 2018, Ola was valued at about $5.7 billion. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.

Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005. Y Combinator is consistently ranked at the top of U.S. accelerators.

Y Combinator

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

India's online car rental space is heating up due to multiple factors that include a change in car ownership.

Ola enters Indian online car rental space as local youths stop buying cars | KrASIA

Ola enters Indian online car rental space as local youths stop buying cars

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Avanish Tiwary

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

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

Didi

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.

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

The list aims to showcase the performance of top local startups and appeal to the country’s best talent.

The top 10 startups to work for in China: LinkedIn | KrASIA

The top 10 startups to work for in China: LinkedIn

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