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

China Tech

Investment

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

Beijing is backing strategic tech like drones and chips as general venture funds dry up.

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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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Content

Creative

Creator Economy

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

Entertainment

With Xiaohongshu-inspired design and TikTok’s global pull, Lemon8 is gaining traction abroad.

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ByteDance’s Lemon8 borrows from Xiaohongshu, but can it keep users hooked?

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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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

As competition intensifies, Porsche is betting on intelligent features to revive its lagging sales in China.

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Porsche ramps up R&#038;D in China to reclaim its edge amid slowing sales

KrASIA | Insights Archives

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

E-Commerce

E-commerce

Lazada

Shopee

Shopee and Lazada might have enjoyed some success in Thailand, but with JD-Central in the picture, will this last?

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A snapshot of online shoppers in Thailand

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Elaine Huang

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

JD is known to invest a lot in logistics. Shoppers seem to appreciate the enhanced customer experience.

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How JD is making its mark in Southeast Asia

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Robin Moh

Monk's Hill Ventures

Why this region is said to be brimming with opportunities.

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A comprehensive report on SEA&#8217;s tech startup ecosystem

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

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Taobao

Overall, Pinduoduo users bargain-hunters, more likely to buy an expensive product that is heavily discounted than cheaper yet undiscounted products.

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Everything you need to know about Pinduoduo users

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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.

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.

Air-conditioner

Ambi Climate

Julian Lee

We interact with air-conditioners on an almost daily basis but do we really understand them?

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Ambi Labs: a HK startup tackling air-conditioners the &#8216;smart way&#8217;

ecommerce in Indonesia

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online marketplace

online shopping in Indonesia

Tokopedia

Tokopedia 9th anniversary

William Tanuwijaya

Indonesia’s top C2C marketplace inches its way towards Taobao-like success

Tokopedia, now 9 years old, hits 4 million merchants | KrASIA

Tokopedia, now 9 years old, hits 4 million merchants

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Nadine Freischlad

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

What can investors in Singapore learn from the crowdfunding debacle in China?

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Lessons for investors following China&#8217;s P2P lending nightmare

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Medtech

The ageing societies of Asian nations are driving the growth in areas like medtech and other innovative healthcare innovations.

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Ageing Asia spurs rise in assistive robots, tele-healthcare

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Shiwen Yap

Ten winning strategies that help online vendors to excel in online shopping festivals.

Insights

A snapshot of online shoppers in Thailand

How JD is making its mark in Southeast Asia

A comprehensive report on SEA’s tech startup ecosystem

Everything you need to know about Pinduoduo users

Ambi Labs: a HK startup tackling air-conditioners the ‘smart way’

Tokopedia, now 9 years old, hits 4 million merchants

Lessons for investors following China’s P2P lending nightmare

Ageing Asia spurs rise in assistive robots, tele-healthcare

From Shopee’s 9.9 to Alibaba’s 11.11, ten winning strategies for online shopping festivals

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