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

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Mobility

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

Transportation

Despite the recent success of the iCar 03, Chery still has more ground to cover if it intends to catch up with its NEV competitors.

Chery must shed its “old shell” to lead the NEV race | KrASIA

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Chery must shed its “old shell” to lead the NEV race

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

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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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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

Europe

Indonesia

Singapore

Vietnam

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

Deals in brief: Matrak and Runchise secure funding, Earth VC invests in YC-backed HyLight, three major China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Matrak and Runchise secure funding, Earth VC invests in YC-backed HyLight, three major China deals, and more

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India

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Deals in brief: NSG BioLabs bags USD 14.5 billion, SoftBank leads Wayve’s Series C round, 12 China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: NSG BioLabs bags USD 14.5 billion, SoftBank leads Wayve’s Series C round, 12 China and India deals, and more

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

KrASIA | Fintech Archives

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

Alibaba

Taobao

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

Tmall

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

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The industry is aiming to start mutual use of QR code payment systems in Southeast Asia and India by Expo 2025 Osaka.

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code | KrASIA

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

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

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Insurance

The insurance group says its stock price falls out of line with company fundamentals.

China's Ping An hit by USD 2.7 billion loss in asset management business | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Ping An hit by USD 2.7 billion loss in asset management business

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

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

Digital Banks

ant group

Under the new structure, Ant International, OceanBase, and Ant Digital Technologies will function as independent subsidiaries.

Ant Group names new president and spins off three businesses in major restructuring | KrASIA

Ant Group names new president and spins off three businesses in major restructuring

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Apps are now the core of the state-owned lender's expansion, its president director said.

Indonesia's Bank Mandiri 'strikes back' at fintech rivals | KrASIA

Indonesia&#8217;s Bank Mandiri &#8216;strikes back&#8217; at fintech rivals

Cambodia

The central bank is focusing on internationalizing its blockchain-based payment system.

Cambodia chalks up ten million Bakong digital currency accounts | KrASIA

Cambodia chalks up ten million Bakong digital currency accounts

Philippines

RCBC boasts 5 million downloads of its AI-backed financial app.

Philippine fintech startups and old players jockey for digital banking | KrASIA

Philippine fintech startups and old players jockey for digital banking

Creative

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

The Singapore startup expands its payment system for game publishers and content creators.

GIC-backed Coda offers fresh alternative to big tech app stores | KrASIA

GIC-backed Coda offers fresh alternative to big tech app stores

Thailand

The latest report by WV and Ravenry highlights the innovation-driven transformation of Thailand’s fintech landscape.