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China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Beyond the record-setting fines, China’s tech firms are now a new kind of business entity.

China's new rules for VIEs leave tech companies in uncharted territory | KrASIA

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China&#8217;s new rules for VIEs leave tech companies in uncharted territory

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

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Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

With Grab in the spotlight for the largest ever SPAC merger that brands the company with a valuation close to USD 40 billion, KrASIA set out to answer that question. To find out what it is like to be part of a company that has reshaped not only the socioeconomic conditions in Southeast Asia but also the physical feel of the region’s urban nodes, I spoke with five people who have worked at Grab in its various phases, from shortly after its inception to the present, each pouring all their energies into tasks at different divisions to make Grab what it is today.

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever | KrASIA

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

The tech behind NFT art is changing visual culture in subtle ways.

Infinite estimates: The true value of NFT art is in the protocol behind it | KrASIA

Infinite estimates: The true value of NFT art is in the protocol behind it

Didi, a Chinese mobility platform, connects riders to taxis, private cars, and ride-sharing options, integrating AI-driven route optimization.

Didi

Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

Indonesia

With Lunar New Year celebrations—and heavy order volumes—coming up, the tech sector’s most vulnerable workers need vaccines to stay safe.

Jab me now: Tech’s gig workers are finally getting COVID shots, but at a slow pace | KrASIA

Jab me now: Tech’s gig workers are finally getting COVID shots, but at a slow pace

Jack Ma appears on stage as a hologram at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 9. Courtesy of WAIC via South China Morning Post.

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

China's AI industry must remain wary of dependence on its government contracts, and prove commercial viability in the private sector.

Brady Ng

China’s new rules for VIEs leave tech companies in uncharted territory

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever

Infinite estimates: The true value of NFT art is in the protocol behind it

Jab me now: Tech’s gig workers are finally getting COVID shots, but at a slow pace

‘A forest, some clouds, and all kinds of creatures’: The state of AI in China