Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO

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I followed 36kr.com from its beginning. In its first 2 years, HN is the source for 80% of the its articles.

Doesn't seem very different to most other tech news sites to be honest. Seems like almost every article you read nowadays is sourced from Reddit, Twitter, YouTube or some other social media site.

Probably the same deal with Hacker News in some spheres too.

They've basically become a quick way for journalists to find a story.

Crunchbase tracks startups not TechCrunch. Misleading headline.

Quality reporting over at Bloomberg :(

Although https://36kr.com/ seems to be a magazine style website - so maybe it is not totally wrong, just the explanation of what they do is limited to the wrong bit.

TechCrunch owns it so maybe that's what confused editor at Bloomberg. But then one can argue that TechCrunch is owned by the Verizon Media group.

That's even worse, because Techchrunch hasn't owned them since 2015. They are fully independent as Crunchbase, Inc. since then.

(via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchbase)

But its still owned by Verizon through Verizon Media aka (Ex-Yahoo+AOL)

Different type of "Tracks". Unless you argue TechCrunch doesn't "track" Startup news.

36Kr is the TechCrunch of China.

36kr really does seem to be what TC was when it had Crunchbase -- if TC had leveraged CB to its full potential instead of spinning it off. The Bloomberg article says that 36Kr's news portal "hosted 50,000 articles and had 150 million readers at the end of 2017", on top of being a data analysis/tracker platform. Crunchbase does have its own news portal at https://news.crunchbase.com, but I have no idea if it has millions of readers yet.

The original name of 36Kr is something like Chinese version of TechCrunch.

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