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

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud

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

China Tech

Vietnam

The Chinese tech group is renting server space from state-owned partners in the meantime.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law | KrASIA

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Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law

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

KrASIA

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

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

Douyin

Tiktok

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.

Content

Creative

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

Video

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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Jeff Chay

Photo of Victor Lysenko, founder and CEO of Osome.

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

Cambodia

India

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more

Live Streaming

KrASIA | Live Streaming Archives

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

Some believe online marketing tactics might shake up the real estate industry beyond the outbreak.

China's property developers bet on online sales to offset coronavirus losses | KrASIA

China&#8217;s property developers bet on online sales to offset coronavirus losses

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

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

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

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

Social Impact

Videos

As many cities are under some form of quarantine, daily life has changed considerably.

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak | KrASIA

Video | Life in China during the coronavirus outbreak

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James Chan

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

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

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

MedTech

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

On-Demand Services

Visual Stories

Mobile games, short-video apps, and online medical services are some sectors who saw growth.

Infographic | Coronavirus-impacted economy brings new opportunities to these tech sectors | KrASIA

Infographic | Coronavirus-impacted economy brings new opportunities to these tech sectors

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Julianna Wu

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

Kuaishou

He made more than USD 4,000 while literally sleeping.

Under quarantine, 18 million Chinese netizens watch this man sleep at night (and pay him too) | KrASIA

Under quarantine, 18 million Chinese netizens watch this man sleep at night (and pay him too)

Bilibili

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

Entertainment

The fully online "Stay at Home Strawberry" festival will be streamed on Bilibili.

Music festival goes online to offset losses caused by coronavirus | KrASIA

Music festival goes online to offset losses caused by coronavirus

The fast-spreading novel coronavirus has already claimed 170 lives and infected over 7,826 people in China.

50 million Chinese oversee the construction of new hospitals in Wuhan through live streaming | KrASIA

50 million Chinese oversee the construction of new hospitals in Wuhan through live streaming

The company is already one of the most popular streaming sites in China, but it has loftier goals.

Bilibili grows with China's Gen Z consumers | KrASIA

Bilibili grows with China&#8217;s Gen Z consumers

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

Netflix

With 5% market share in India, Netflix trails behind Amazon Prime and Hotstar.

India might be the last frontier for Netflix in the global streaming war | KrASIA

India might be the last frontier for Netflix in the global streaming war

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

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

E-Commerce

KrASIA attended Tencent's WeChat annual flagship conference in Guangzhou.