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Banu, a rising Chinese hotpot chain, thrives on its founder’s “three-flip rule,” the secret to its profitability.

This hotpot mogul’s business is booming, and he isn’t following Haidilao’s playbook | KrASIA

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This hotpot mogul’s business is booming, and he isn’t following Haidilao’s playbook

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

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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36Kr English

Japan

A severe worker shortage lingers as a downside risk.

Japan's domestic spending propped up by wages and tourism | KrASIA

Japan&#8217;s domestic spending propped up by wages and tourism

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

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Nikkei Asia

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

China Tech

Xpeng

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Xpeng Motors plans to start delivering the P7+ in November, aiming to build on Mona M03’s initial success in the competitive EV market.

After Mona M03’s breakout, Xpeng eyes another EV win with the P7+ | KrASIA

After Mona M03’s breakout, Xpeng eyes another EV win with the P7+

KrASIA | Insights Archives

Douyin

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

Kuaishou

Taobao

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

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

Retail

China’s e-commerce merchants eschew livestreaming as costs eat into profits. To be featured on top livestreams, merchants pay hefty fees to MCNs.

China’s e-commerce merchants eschew livestreaming as costs eat into profits | KrASIA

China’s e-commerce merchants eschew livestreaming as costs eat into profits

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Jiaxing Li

krasia ai artificial intelligence machine learning

Investors

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.

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

India

The funding in local AI startups has more than doubled to USD 654 million in 2021 from USD 283 million in 2020, as per the data collated by Venture Intelligence.

AI investments go mainstream in India | KrASIA

AI investments go mainstream in India

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Deep Tech

ProfilePrint optimizes the search for food ingredients with flavor ‘fingerprinting’ technology. The company has already commercialized its solution.

ProfilePrint optimizes the search for food ingredients with flavor ‘fingerprinting’ technology | KrASIA

ProfilePrint optimizes the search for food ingredients with flavor ‘fingerprinting’ technology

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Sarah Koh

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

Akulaku acquired Bank Neo Commerce, opens new frontier for online banking, and gained more than 10 million users in six months.

Akulaku opens new frontier for online banking, gaining more than 10 million users in six months | KrASIA

Akulaku opens new frontier for online banking, gaining more than 10 million users in six months

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KrASIA Writers

Blockchain

Elevated by institutional demand, crypto mining firms slide into public markets. Major enterprises are putting cryptocurrency on their balance sheets.

Elevated by institutional demand, crypto mining firms slide into public markets | KrASIA

Elevated by institutional demand, crypto mining firms slide into public markets

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Stephanie Li

Climate

Indonesia

Singapore

Investments pour into Southeast Asia’s climate tech solutions as temperatures rise. These innovations are crucial to tackling environmental challenges.

Investments pour into Southeast Asia’s climate tech solutions as temperatures rise | KrASIA

Investments pour into Southeast Asia’s climate tech solutions as temperatures rise

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Khamila Mulia

Content

With their voices stifled on Douban, China’s largest online community of women seek new home. The women call each other “sisters.”

With their voices stifled on Douban, China’s largest online community of women seek new home | KrASIA

With their voices stifled on Douban, China’s largest online community of women seek new home

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

The percentage of growth and late-stage companies focusing on profitability rather than growth has come down to 14% in 2022 from almost 35% in 2021.

Indian founders expect fundraising environment to be more favorable in 2022: Report | KrASIA

Indian founders expect fundraising environment to be more favorable in 2022: Report

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Cryptocurrencies

Metaverse

Fad or future: Are NFTs the next big thing in fashion? The world of fashion has jumped on the bandwagon to issue digital tokens too.