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Alibaba Cloud powers scalable cloud computing, data analytics, and cybersecurity solutions, supporting businesses’ digital transformation worldwide.

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

Artificial Intelligence

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From learning tools to ad engines, teams prototyped AI applications aimed at solving practical challenges across industries.

AI in action: Inside the innovations from Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore Hackathon

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

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

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

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Indonesia

Southeast Asia

With a localized strategy and China-tested tech, Yup is expanding credit access across emerging markets in the region.

Can Yup become Southeast Asia’s answer to Nubank?

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. 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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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Economy

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

Retail

Europe

The UK grocer is testing a hybrid “Iceland Lab” concept to see if its icy staples can stand out in a hotly competitive market.

Can Iceland crack China’s frozen food market?

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

Ant Group

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The online lender's client base grew tenfold in the past few years.

Ant Financial-backed MYbank gave out more than USD 290 billion in loans in the past four years

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Luna Lin

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

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Hello Chuxing

Ride-hailing

It was valued above USD 2.5 billion in the previous fundraising round.

Ant Financial-backed Hello Chuxing seeks hefty financing that would take valuation to USD 4 billion

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Song Jingli

It's a promising trend ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Alipay now serves over 300,000 merchants in Japan

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Lao Bei

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

Xiaomi crafts affordable smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices, appealing to users who seek innovation, quality, and budget-friendly tech.

Hong Kong

virutual banking

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has so far issued 8 virtual banking licenses. Ant Financial, Tencent, Xiaomi, and Ping An each have one.

Companies backed by Chinese tech giants are granted virtual banking licenses in Hong Kong

ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

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

Didi

What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

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Sequoia Capital is the most successful unicorn breeder

China now has 202 unicorns, says report

Ant Financial

Qudian

It said this offload is based on a normal business decision

Ant Financial sells out its stake in micro-lender Qudian

Clover Sec

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Security service at enterprise level is a fast-growing market in China

Ant Financial invests in cybersecurity firm Clover Sec

Alipay

Malaysia

Recap of the Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge Grand Finale in Singapore

Indonesian fisheries e-commerce startup Aruna wins Alipay-NUS Enterprise "tech for good" challenge

Indonesian fisheries e-commerce startup Aruna wins Alipay-NUS Enterprise &#8220;tech for good&#8221; challenge

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