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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

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

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

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Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

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 shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

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Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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

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Kuaishou, best known for its short video platform, drives user-generated content, influencer marketing, and community engagement through shareable clips.

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

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Live Streaming

Kwai Concept's goal is very transparent - to lure more users from first and second-tier cities.

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin's core users

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin&#8217;s core users

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Luna Lin

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

ByteDance is making moves to amp up revenues from its live broadcasting businesses

ByteDance shifts attention to live broadcasting business with its new centralised platform

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Song Jingli

Mini-programmes could bolster the company's profits.

ByteDance makes mini-programmes easier to use, following Tencent's footstep

ByteDance makes mini-programmes easier to use, following Tencent&#8217;s footstep

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The buyout may buoy the profits of the world's most valuable startup.

After releasing its own game, ByteDance acquires a full-fledged game publisher

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

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TikTok

ByteDance accuses Tencent of escalating interference to stifle Duoshan

Lark, a workplace collaboration platform by ByteDance, integrates messaging, video conferencing, document sharing, and productivity tools.

Lark

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

ByteDance said to launch productivity app Lark to take on Slack

With the huge user base of its popular apps, the commercialisation of ByteDance's search engine product will likely pose a serious threat to Baidu

ByteDance starts commercialising its search business to challenge Baidu's core revenue source

ByteDance starts commercialising its search business to challenge Baidu&#8217;s core revenue source

India has witnessed a total of 250 million downloads by far, making up a quarter of the sum, while the United States has recorded 96 million downloads, accounting for 9.6% of the total.

TikTok now has more than 1 billion downloads, a quarter comes from India

TikTok, a short-video app created by the world's most valuable startup ByteDance, is out seeking advertisers in the United States, Digiday reported on

ByteDance

Tencent-backed Kwai launches new app to go after Douyin’s core users

ByteDance shifts attention to live broadcasting business with its new centralised platform

ByteDance makes mini-programmes easier to use, following Tencent’s footstep