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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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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.

Deep Tech

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.

Biotechnology

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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T. K. Lin

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

Southeast Asia

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

E-commerce

Singapore

Fiona Lau, a former retail investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, and Tony Wong, a software engineer and entrepreneur, met at a startup event in Hong Kong in 2013. They discussed the problems SMEs face when digitalizing their business. The two decided to launch Shopline, a platform that provides software solutions for SMEs. The firm's software allows merchants to quickly set up an online platform with a centralized inventory and order management system, thanks to a selection of drag-and-drop design tools. Shopline also assists companies in their journey to start social e-commerce operations.

Shopline assists SMEs in their e-commerce journey | Startup Stories

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Simone Martin

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

Cybersecurity

Indonesia

After a dataset containing personal information of 279 million Indonesians was leaked, people are scrutinizing the government's shoddy data protection practices while hackers threaten their personal security. The latest breach was of data stored on a server used by BPJS Kesehatan, the country's healthcare and social security agency.

Shoddy data protection in Indonesia threatens personal security of citizens

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Khamila Mulia

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

Social Impact

Myanmar

Myanmar's military lacks 'financial and human resources' to build a local version of China's Great Firewall, one report says.

Burmese authorities want to wall off the internet, but can they succeed?

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Engine Biosciences applies machine learning to genomics for drug discovery and therapy optimization.

Singapore-based biotech firm Engine Biosciences raises SGD 57 million to advance cancer treatment

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

On-demand Services

Ula draws inspiration from neighborhood retail in India, and already has 30,000 kiosks signed on in Indonesia.

With big-name backing, Ula digitizes Indonesia's small retailers | Startup Stories

With big-name backing, Ula digitizes Indonesia&#8217;s small retailers | Startup Stories

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

Blockchain

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

Pintu founder Jeth Soetoyo previously launched the stablecoin Rupiah Token.

Indonesian crypto exchange Pintu bags funding from Pantera Capital and Coinbase

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Daily Social

Indonesia still lacks proper waste management systems, which has led startups to create new green alternatives.

To deal with e-commerce waste, Indonesians are taking matters into their own hands | Tech in Culture

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Ursula Florene

How do policies adjust to a data-rich world? Explore usage-based coverage, automated claims, and analytics guiding risk assessment.

Insurance

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

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

Lending

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

Venture Capital

Malaysia

Fintech startup Finology won the Seedstars World Competition, earning USD 500,000 in funding.

Malaysian startup wins Seedstars World Competition, a first for the country

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Vulcan Post

Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

Tokopedia, an Indonesian online marketplace, empowers entrepreneurs, brands, and SMEs to reach digital-savvy consumers.

Tokopedia

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

Food Delivery

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

Listing plans by Grab and Gojek-Tokopedia put focus on profitability.