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Nvidia

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.

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

Industry experts urge calm as tempered demand and strategy shifts drive down Nvidia’s GPU rentals.

Nvidia GPU rentals drop sharply, but experts say no cause for panic | KrASIA

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Nvidia GPU rentals drop sharply, but experts say no cause for panic

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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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Investment

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

In an uncommon VC move, HongShan teams up with Li-Ning to drive the sportswear brand’s international growth.

HongShan and Li-Ning form rare joint venture to fuel global expansion | KrASIA

HongShan and Li-Ning form rare joint venture to fuel global expansion

Angel Investing

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more

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KrASIA Writers

KrASIA | News Archives

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

Smartphones

Embattled Chinese company aims to update 200 million handsets with Google replacement. Huawei aims to have 200 million existing handsets switch from Google's Android operating system to its own HarmonyOS by the end of the year.

Huawei to bring in-house HarmonyOS to smartphones | KrASIA

Huawei to bring in-house HarmonyOS to smartphones

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm that invests in companies that aim to eliminate animals agriculture from the food system, raised USD 25 million for its Good Protein Fund I.

Singaporean VC Good Startup raises USD 25 million to invest in alternative protein developers | KrASIA

Singaporean VC Good Startup raises USD 25 million to invest in alternative protein developers

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Khamila Mulia

iGlobe Partners has closed the iGlobe Platinum Fund III, raising USD 100 million for investments in game-changing innovations, targeted at the development of high-growth areas in smart cities, synthetic biology, and fintech.

iGlobe Partners closes USD 100 million in oversubscribed Platinum Fund III for transformational ventures in three cutting-edge sectors | KrASIA

iGlobe Partners closes USD 100 million in oversubscribed Platinum Fund III for transformational ventures in three cutting-edge sectors

Dunzo

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

India Tech

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

On-Demand Services

India

Dunzo claimed to have a 350% surge in medicine orders on its app since January 2021. Google-backed Dunzo is one of the few companies that got approval from the director general of civil aviation last year to test beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) drones for deliveries.

Google-backed Dunzo to deliver medicines and COVID-19 vaccines via drones in India | KrASIA

Google-backed Dunzo to deliver medicines and COVID-19 vaccines via drones in India

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Avanish Tiwary

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

E-Commerce

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

RedSeer projects the Indian social commerce sector to become a USD 7 billion opportunity by 2025, contributing up to 5% to the total e-commerce market.

Indian adtech unicorn InMobi in talks to acquire social commerce startup Shop101 | KrASIA

Indian adtech unicorn InMobi in talks to acquire social commerce startup Shop101

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

China Tech

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.

Blockchain

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

Several trial runs for the e-CNY have taken place over the past few months, each providing data about how consumers use the world’s first digital currency.

China runs USD 6 million e-currency experiment in Beijing | KrASIA

China runs USD 6 million e-currency experiment in Beijing

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Brady Ng

Retail

Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia and Singapore-based tech major Sea Group are ranked first and third respectively among the top retail companies in Southeast Asia, according to the latest report by research firm Euromonitor International.

Tokopedia, Sea Group ranked among top retail firms in Southeast Asia by GMV in 2020 | KrASIA

Tokopedia, Sea Group ranked among top retail firms in Southeast Asia by GMV in 2020

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Tech in Asia

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

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

Tencent is being sued for getting kids in China hooked on video games. On Tuesday, a children’s rights organization filed the lawsuit. At the case’s center is Honor of Kings, Tencent’s smash hit battle arena game that shares a format with Riot Games’ League of Legends.

Tencent blasted with lawsuit for ‘addicting’ children to video game | KrASIA

Tencent blasted with lawsuit for ‘addicting’ children to video game

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

Entertainment

China looks to keep tech company within reach of its regulators. Chinese authorities reportedly have pressured podcast and audio app Ximalaya to scrap plans for an initial public offering in the US and list in Hong Kong instead, as they seek to tighten their grip on tech companies.