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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by CodeSheikh on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:44AM (#19443322)
Crunchbase tracks startups not TechCrunch. Misleading headline.
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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by Sujan on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:48AM (#19443362)
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.

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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by CodeSheikh on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:57AM (#19443462)
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.
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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by Sujan on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:03PM (#19443531)
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)

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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by 3into10power5 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:23PM (#19446453)
But its still owned by Verizon through Verizon Media aka (Ex-Yahoo+AOL)
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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by ksec on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:54PM (#19444840)
Different type of "Tracks". Unless you argue TechCrunch doesn't "track" Startup news.

36Kr is the TechCrunch of China.

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Re:Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO by danso on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:24PM (#19445212)
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.
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