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

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

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Once a leader in textile innovation, Uniqlo is struggling to keep pace with shifting consumer demands.

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

East Asia

Discover how Japan’s advanced manufacturing, robotics, and consumer electronics brands drive global technology trends.

Toyota, a Japanese automaker, produces a wide range of vehicles, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and innovation in mobility.

Toyota

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

Toyota is banking on a leadership shake-up and a streamlined product lineup to regain its footing in China.

Toyota shakes up its China strategy as sales slip | KrASIA

Toyota shakes up its China strategy as sales slip

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.

Deep Tech

DeepSeek's low-cost chatbot has shaken markets.

What is AI distillation and what does it mean for OpenAI? | KrASIA

What is AI distillation and what does it mean for OpenAI?

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

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Microsoft develops Windows, Office, and Azure cloud platforms, enabling productivity, collaboration, and scalable computing worldwide.

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

ByteDance

ShareChat, an Indian social media platform, connects users through regional language content, memes, and community-driven discussions.

ShareChat

TikTok hosts short-form videos spanning entertainment, education, and branded content, capturing global audiences and driving cultural trends.

TikTok

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

Short Video

Microsoft seeks to acquire TikTok's global businesses, including India's.

Microsoft in talks with TikTok's Indian competitor ShareChat to invest USD 100 million | KrASIA

Microsoft in talks with TikTok&#8217;s Indian competitor ShareChat to invest USD 100 million

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In an internal letter, founder Zhang Yiming emphasized that ByteDance will stay the course.

Zhang Yiming says ByteDance's goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged | KrASIA

Zhang Yiming says ByteDance&#8217;s goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged

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In a statement on Sunday, ByteDance also accuses Facebook of plagiarism and smears.

CHINA BRIEF | Microsoft moves ahead with TikTok purchase as Trump grants 45-day deadline | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Microsoft moves ahead with TikTok purchase as Trump grants 45-day deadline

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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The avatar for Microsoft's Xiaoice, which boasts 660 million users globally. Courtesy of Microsoft via South China Morning Post.

Xiaoice boasts 660 million global users and a reach of 450 million smart devices.

Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot to become its own company in China | KrASIA

Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot to become its own company in China

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

Apple designs iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers, coupling sleek hardware with robust software ecosystems and service offerings.

Apple

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

Google

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 information move at light speed? Review 5G rollouts, fiber networks, and connectivity standards advancing global communication.

Telecommunications

Nreal brings VR, AR, and XR technologies to the mass market.

Augmented reality glasses, not a sci-fi thing anymore: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Augmented reality glasses, not a sci-fi thing anymore: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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

Ant Group

Bukalapak, an Indonesian marketplace, empowers small merchants and connects consumers with diverse products online.

Bukalapak

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

E-commerce

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

Enterprise Services

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

Fintech

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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36Kr Chuhai and KrASIA successfully organized Globiz, a webinar aimed at shedding light on doing business in Southeast Asia.

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap | KrASIA

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap

Meta oversees social networks (like Facebook and Instagram), messaging apps, VR platforms, and digital ads, connecting billions across continents.

Reliance

Jio Platforms has divested a 22.3% stake for over USD 13.7 billion, from nine high profile investors.

US-based PE firms TPG and L Catterton become latest investors in Reliance's Jio Platforms (Update) | KrASIA

US-based PE firms TPG and L Catterton become latest investors in Reliance&#8217;s Jio Platforms (Update)

Paytm, an Indian digital payments app, enables mobile transactions, bill payments, and financial products for millions of users.

Paytm

Paytm was valued at USD 16 billion last year when the US-based asset manager T Rowe Price—as a new investor—poured USD 150 million into the Noida-based company.

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment | KrASIA

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment

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 medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

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

Social Impact

The Chinese super app joins other tech giants looking to develop new software to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Microsoft

Microsoft in talks with TikTok’s Indian competitor ShareChat to invest USD 100 million

Zhang Yiming says ByteDance’s goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged

CHINA BRIEF | Microsoft moves ahead with TikTok purchase as Trump grants 45-day deadline

Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot to become its own company in China

Augmented reality glasses, not a sci-fi thing anymore: Inside China’s Startups

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap

US-based PE firms TPG and L Catterton become latest investors in Reliance’s Jio Platforms (Update)

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment

WeChat to participate in COVID-19 hackathon in support of WHO

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