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Thailand

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?

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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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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KrASIA Writers

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

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

KrASIA | News Archives

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

India Tech

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

India

Indus OS claims to have over 400,000 local apps, catering to 100 million users in 23 regional languages.

PhonePe to acquire Samsung-backed Indus OS to power its super app dream, report says | KrASIA

PhonePe to acquire Samsung-backed Indus OS to power its super app dream, report says

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

MENA

Deep Tech

The Moonshot Lab – Israel will look to collaborate with local and regional universities, startups, and entrepreneurs.

Google to set up Moonshot Lab in Tel Aviv in search of radical tech solutions | KrASIA

Google to set up Moonshot Lab in Tel Aviv in search of radical tech solutions

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NoCamels

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

China Tech

Prop Tech

Zuo established the online platform Beike in 2018.

Beike founder Zuo Hui passes away at age of 50 | KrASIA

Beike founder Zuo Hui passes away at age of 50

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Song Jingli

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Security

This is the latest and biggest data breach afflicting the country.

Dataset containing personal information of 279 million Indonesians allegedly leaked on hacker forum | KrASIA

Dataset containing personal information of 279 million Indonesians allegedly leaked on hacker forum

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Khamila Mulia

Edtech

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

Although several Chinese education companies were fined in April, Zhangmen hasn't received any warnings or penalties so far.

SoftBank-backed Zhangmen files for US IPO as China steps up regulation on private education | KrASIA

SoftBank-backed Zhangmen files for US IPO as China steps up regulation on private education

JD.com's annual active buyer accounts: 500 million

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

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

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

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

E-Commerce

The group's retail business, which targets price-sensitive buyers, is struggling to make money amid fierce competition in the sector.

KEY STAT | JD.com maintains momentum with nearly 40% revenue growth in Q1 | KrASIA

KEY STAT | JD.com maintains momentum with nearly 40% revenue growth in Q1

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Julianna Wu

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

ByteDance's head of human resources, Liang Rubo, will step in as CEO.

ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming steps down as CEO | KrASIA

ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming steps down as CEO

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Brady Ng

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

Food Delivery

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Mobility

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

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

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

Transportation

A ticker code for GoTo would be a score for IDX.

GoTo will invigorate Indonesia’s stock market, but may need organizational restructuring, experts say | KrASIA

GoTo will invigorate Indonesia’s stock market, but may need organizational restructuring, experts say

Baidu

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

Electric Vehicles

Baidu's autonomous driving unit Apollo is morphing into an income driver outside of its advertising business.