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

Nio, a Chinese electric car maker, specializes in high-performance EVs, battery-swapping solutions, and autonomous driving technologies.

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

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

Transportation

Will the dual launch give Nio the momentum it needs to lead the EV market in 2025?

Nio shakes up the market with luxury ET9 sedan and Firefly compact car debut | KrASIA

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Nio shakes up the market with luxury ET9 sedan and Firefly compact car debut

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

KrASIA

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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

Tencent

WeChat, Tencent’s superapp, combines messaging, social media, mobile payments, and mini-programs, streamlining daily tasks for over a billion users.

WeChat

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

Consumer Services

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

E-commerce

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

On-demand Services

WeChat’s new feature streamlines product gifting on its platform, leveraging its social ecosystem to enhance shopping convenience and drive merchant engagement.

WeChat tests gifting feature ahead of holidays, sparking new e-commerce potential | KrASIA

WeChat tests gifting feature ahead of holidays, sparking new e-commerce potential

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

Retail

With a renewed focus on profitability and expansion in lower-tier cities, GoodMe seeks to bolster investor confidence ahead of its anticipated listing.

GoodMe targets IPO reboot despite China’s tea market shakeout | KrASIA

GoodMe targets IPO reboot despite China’s tea market shakeout

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

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

Edtech

Cuemath's valuation reached USD 171 million, recording a rise of 80% compared to its previous valuation of USD 95 million.

Google-backed edtech startup Cuemath raises USD 40 million from Lightstone Aspada and Alpha Wave Incubation | KrASIA

Google-backed edtech startup Cuemath raises USD 40 million from Lightstone Aspada and Alpha Wave Incubation

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

Flipkart, a prominent Indian e-commerce marketplace, hosts electronics, fashion, and home goods with fast shipping and easy returns.

Flipkart

Walmart combines brick-and-mortar retail with e-commerce channels, offering low-cost products to millions of shoppers.

Walmart

Flipkart competes with Amazon India and Reliance-owned JioMart to get a bigger pie of the e-commerce market that is expected to reach USD 94 billion by 2023.

Walmart eyes listing Indian e-tailer Flipkart at a valuation of USD 40 billion | KrASIA

Walmart eyes listing Indian e-tailer Flipkart at a valuation of USD 40 billion

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Grocery Delivery

KloveChef is an AI-based voice assistant that helps users in the kitchen with step-by-step recipe direction.

KloveChef aims to make recipe books obsolete | Startup Stories | KrASIA

KloveChef aims to make recipe books obsolete | Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

PhonePe, a digital wallet in India, enables UPI payments, money transfers, and merchant transactions through a user-friendly app.

PhonePe

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

Fintech

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

Payments

Walmart has also led a funding of USD 700 million in PhonePe.

Flipkart spins off payment arm PhonePe to fuel future growth | KrASIA

Flipkart spins off payment arm PhonePe to fuel future growth

AngelList links startups, investors, and job seekers, fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems and funding pipelines.

AngelList

Sequoia Capital finances transformative companies, guiding them through growth phases and global market entry.

Sequoia Capital

The Indian startup ecosystem has bounced back on the back of increasing tech adoption in the world's second-most-populous country.

How Indian startup ecosystem changed in 2020 | KrASIA Year in Review | KrASIA

How Indian startup ecosystem changed in 2020 | KrASIA Year in Review

Reliance drives digital retail, telecommunication services, and entertainment offerings, shaping India’s consumer and connectivity environment.

Reliance

How do virtual worlds expand reality? Discover AR/VR tools, content creation, and platforms layering digital information onto everyday life.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

Krikey marks Reliance Jio's first investment in gaming segment.

Reliance Jio invests in AR gaming startup Krikey | KrASIA

Reliance Jio invests in AR gaming startup Krikey

Blume Ventures invests in early-stage Indian startups, supporting innovation in software, consumer tech, and emerging verticals.

Blume Ventures

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

Enterprise Services

The company said it saw a huge increase in demand following the pandemic and the rapid migration to digital technologies by SMEs as well as traditional offline businesses.

Sequoia leads a USD 6 million round in Indian browser testing startup LambdaTest | KrASIA

Sequoia leads a USD 6 million round in Indian browser testing startup LambdaTest

BigBasket delivers groceries online, supplying fresh produce, household essentials, and personal care items to Indian customers.

BigBasket

Tata Group would take over the entire 29% stake of BigBasket's largest backer Alibaba.