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Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO
- CodeSheikh 8y agoCrunchbase tracks startups not TechCrunch. Misleading headline.
- Sujan 8y agoQuality reporting over at Bloomberg :( Although https://36kr.com/ 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.
- CodeSheikh 8y agoTechCrunch 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.
- Sujan 8y agoThat'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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchbase)
- 3into10power5 8y agoBut its still owned by Verizon through Verizon Media aka (Ex-Yahoo+AOL)
- ksec 8y agoDifferent type of "Tracks". Unless you argue TechCrunch doesn't "track" Startup news. 36Kr is the TechCrunch of China.
- danso 8y ago36kr 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 https://news.crunchbase.com, but I have no idea if it has millions of readers yet.
- wensheng 8y agoI followed 36kr.com from its beginning. In its first 2 years, HN is the source for 80% of the its articles.
- CM30 8y agoDoesn'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.
- turingbook 8y agoThe original name of 36Kr is something like Chinese version of TechCrunch.