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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Services

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

With luxury beauty sales slowing, L’Oréal is doubling down on affordability to stay competitive.

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

KrASIA

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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

Blockchain

Where do digital assets find value? Consider market volatility, decentralized exchanges, and blockchain protocols shaping crypto economies.

Cryptocurrencies

What happens when banking goes virtual? Study no-branch platforms, biometric authentication, and seamless financial services.

Digital Banks

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Fintech

Singapore

Digital asset players and private banks are racing to capitalize on growing interest in the sector.

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Rich Asians fuel Singapore crypto craze on Trump, bitcoin hype

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

India

The share of cash transactions is expected to drop from 47% in 2019 to 14% by 2027.

Asia goes cashless as countries push for digital payments | KrASIA

Asia goes cashless as countries push for digital payments

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

Alibaba | KrASIA Archives

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

Pinduoduo revolutionizes e-commerce with social group buying, connecting budget-conscious shoppers to discounts on a broad range of products.

Pinduoduo

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

The Duoduo Pifa wholesaling feature is similar to Alibaba's 1688 platform, which is the country's largest online platform for businesses to procure goods.

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo to launch wholesaling feature to take on Alibaba | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Pinduoduo to launch wholesaling feature to take on Alibaba

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Song Jingli

Shopline, said to be Asia’s largest e-commerce enabler, has so far helped more than 200,000 merchants, mostly in Hong Kong and Taiwan, start new online stores.

Alibaba-backed Shopline helps thousands of Hong Kong entrepreneurs set up online as pandemic spurs e-commerce | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed Shopline helps thousands of Hong Kong entrepreneurs set up online as pandemic spurs e-commerce

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South China Morning Post

Amazon leads e-commerce, streaming (Prime Video), and AWS cloud infrastructure, redefining retail, media, and data services.

Amazon

Google dominates online search, digital ads, and cloud solutions, powering discovery, analytics, and smartphone operating systems.

Google

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

Building local servers expand the market pool for cloud providers.

In Indonesia's cloud war, Google and Alibaba are one step ahead of competitors | KrASIA

In Indonesia&#8217;s cloud war, Google and Alibaba are one step ahead of competitors

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Ursula Florene

What drives digital education adoption? Analyze e-learning apps, AI-driven assessments, and tools enhancing student engagement.

Edtech

COVID-19

Taobao

taobao education

Alibaba throws its weight behind the online education industry. 

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei | KrASIA

We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei

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Lin Lingyi

Huawei, a global telecom and smartphone vendor, delivers networking equipment, 5G solutions, and consumer devices integrating cutting-edge tech.

Huawei

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

Tencent

How can businesses drive positive change? Study policies, ESG strategies, and community initiatives fostering global social advancement.

Social Impact

Although environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards are not new, Chinese firms have only recently begun to adopt them seriously.

Catching up on ESG standards: How do Chinese companies perform in social investing? | KrASIA

Catching up on ESG standards: How do Chinese companies perform in social investing?

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Gozde Celik

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

Artificial Intelligence

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

How do connected devices shape daily life? Examine IoT sensors, data platforms, and security protocols integrating smart tech into homes and cities.

Internet of Things

The hardware will be based on Alibaba's XuanTie processors.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba teams up with Allwinner to produce 50 million chips | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba teams up with Allwinner to produce 50 million chips

How are digital assets protected? Analyze threat detection, encryption standards, and cybersecurity solutions safeguarding data.

Cybersecurity

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

On-demand Services

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on-demand service

Lurking beneath Taobao lies a hidden informal economy for services.

Chinese online informal services find home within Alibaba's Taobao marketplace | KrASIA

Chinese online informal services find home within Alibaba&#8217;s Taobao marketplace

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

Xingsheng Youxuan leverages group-buying to provide groceries at bargain prices to residents who live near to each other.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent-backed grocery app Xingsheng Youxuan to close USD 800 million pre-IPO round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent-backed grocery app Xingsheng Youxuan to close USD 800 million pre-IPO round

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

Ant Group, a fintech powerhouse, offers digital payments, wealth management tools, and micro loans, enabling borderless, mobile-first financial services.

Ant Group

Company controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma plans dual listing this year.

Alibaba

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Alibaba-backed Shopline helps thousands of Hong Kong entrepreneurs set up online as pandemic spurs e-commerce

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We are prepared to fight a big battle, says Taobao Education director Huang Lei

Catching up on ESG standards: How do Chinese companies perform in social investing?

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Chinese online informal services find home within Alibaba’s Taobao marketplace

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