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What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

As smart glasses gain traction, they could soon redefine how we see and interact with technology.

Smart glasses: The optics behind the comeback of wearable displays

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Photo of Laifen’s flagship store at Coco Park in Shenzhen during its official opening. Photo source: Laifen.

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

China

The personal care brand plans to open 300 stores to build a retail network around its expanding product lineup.

Laifen turns to offline retail to anchor its next phase of growth

Photo of CTO Lou Tiancheng (left) and CEO James Peng ringing the bell at Pony.ai’s listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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

Pony.ai develops self-driving technologies for cars and trucks, collaborating with automakers to bring safer, fully autonomous mobility to public roads and fleet services worldwide.

Pony.ai

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous 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

Hong Kong

Lou’s relentless pursuit of excellence has been central to Pony.ai’s resilience through years of highs and lows.

Inside Pony.ai’s staying power and the mindset of its CTO, Lou Tiancheng

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

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

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

Ant Group

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

WeChat

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

Cybersecurity

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

E-commerce

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

Payments

An estimated 390 million yuan was lost to internet fraud in China last year, a five-year high

Why more of China’s digital-savvy Gen Z youth are falling victim to online fraud than their elders

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Telecommunications

Tencent will collect high-definition photographies of the site's relics, while also filming a new drama series.

Tencent teams up with Beijing's Forbidden City for digitalization and content co-production

Tencent teams up with Beijing&#8217;s Forbidden City for digitalization and content co-production

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What extends a car’s lifecycle beyond the showroom? Investigate spare parts, performance upgrades, and services fueling the secondary automotive market.

Automotive Aftermarket

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

Electric Vehicles

Tencent’s proposal is part of its further expansion in other sectors.

Tencent makes acquisition proposal for Chinese car site Bitauto

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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A move that may affect rivals such as Alibaba and ByteDance.

Tencent integrates live streaming into WeChat's mini program platform to facilitate e-commerce

Tencent integrates live streaming into WeChat&#8217;s mini program platform to facilitate e-commerce

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

Short Video

Only 15% of teenagers make public posts on the Tencent-owned platform.

Teens are shunning WeChat, showing shifting tastes in Chinese social media

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

The second fine for Tencent's arm behind WeChat Pay.

China's banking authorities fine WeChat's operator Tenpay for violating payment regulations

China&#8217;s banking authorities fine WeChat&#8217;s operator Tenpay for violating payment regulations

NetEase, a Chinese Internet services firm, offers online gaming, music streaming, and e-commerce platforms, engaging millions of digital users.

NetEase

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

Gaming

Titles freeze, longer approval processes for IPO are among hindrances faced by small and mid-sized game publishers.

Chinese gaming firms tap South Korean capital amid headwinds in home market

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

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

Kuaishou

The Chinese startup is collecting more than USD 1 billion in a pre-IPO round which targets a USD 25 billion valuation.

Kuaishou seeks US IPO in 2020 as it gears up for overseas expansion

The tool could bring extra revenues to the Chinese internet giant.

Tencent

Why more of China’s digital-savvy Gen Z youth are falling victim to online fraud than their elders

Tencent teams up with Beijing’s Forbidden City for digitalization and content co-production

Tencent makes acquisition proposal for Chinese car site Bitauto

Tencent integrates live streaming into WeChat’s mini program platform to facilitate e-commerce

Teens are shunning WeChat, showing shifting tastes in Chinese social media

China’s banking authorities fine WeChat’s operator Tenpay for violating payment regulations

Chinese gaming firms tap South Korean capital amid headwinds in home market

Kuaishou seeks US IPO in 2020 as it gears up for overseas expansion

Tencent incubates new credit payment product to take on Ant Financial’s Huabei

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