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China Tech

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

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

Entertainment

Music

Mobile monthly active users of Tencent's online music services decreased to 615 million from 657 million a year ago.

Tencent Music's profits increase in Q1 as regulatory woes continue to grow | KrASIA

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Tencent Music&#8217;s profits increase in Q1 as regulatory woes continue to grow

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Song Jingli

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

E-Commerce

The internet giant steps up its e-commerce game with a standalone group-buying app and new marketing feature.

Tencent makes another effort to capitalize on WeChat—to finally become an e-commerce power? | KrASIA

Tencent makes another effort to capitalize on WeChat—to finally become an e-commerce power?

China's Largest News Aggregator Toutiao Leads $200 Million Investment in Education Startup 17zuoye

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

China's online education sector has been slowing down after students returned to school in the second half of 2020.

VIPKid reshuffles business units ahead of IPO | KrASIA

VIPKid reshuffles business units ahead of IPO

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

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

If a gamer livestreams her gameplay, who owns the media rights?

ByteDance's Douyin and Tencent tussle in court over game livestreaming rights | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin and Tencent tussle in court over game livestreaming rights

Bilibili

Creative

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

Average monthly active users only increased 30% YoY to 223.3 million.

Bilibili posts slower revenue growth amid widening losses | KrASIA

Bilibili posts slower revenue growth amid widening losses

Luckin Coffee

Lu was booted from Luckin and evaded criminal charges. Now, he's about to launch a 500-store noodle chain.

Disgraced Luckin Coffee founder Lu Zhengyao cooks up new business | KrASIA

Disgraced Luckin Coffee founder Lu Zhengyao cooks up new business

Private Equity

Europe

The company is a spinoff of Chicago-based MRO products giant Grainger.

Industrial supplier MyMRO profits from China's transparency drive, raises hundreds of millions of yuan | KrASIA

Industrial supplier MyMRO profits from China&#8217;s transparency drive, raises hundreds of millions of yuan

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

The subsidiary develops microchips that enable intelligent control, sensing, and fingerprint identification.

Carmaker BYD to list semiconductor unit on ChiNext board | KrASIA

Carmaker BYD to list semiconductor unit on ChiNext board

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

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

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

Ant Group and MYbank will continue to support the research, development, and trials of the PBOC’s e-CNY.

Song Jingli

Tencent Music’s profits increase in Q1 as regulatory woes continue to grow

Tencent makes another effort to capitalize on WeChat—to finally become an e-commerce power?

VIPKid reshuffles business units ahead of IPO

ByteDance’s Douyin and Tencent tussle in court over game livestreaming rights

Bilibili posts slower revenue growth amid widening losses

Disgraced Luckin Coffee founder Lu Zhengyao cooks up new business

Industrial supplier MyMRO profits from China’s transparency drive, raises hundreds of millions of yuan

Carmaker BYD to list semiconductor unit on ChiNext board

Ant Group affiliate MYbank joins China’s digital yuan trials