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

Consumer Services

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

Retail

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

Is Uniqlo still an innovator? The fast fashion giant faces a new tech reset | KrASIA

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Is Uniqlo still an innovator? The fast fashion giant faces a new tech reset

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

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

Tencent

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If the deal goes through, Alibaba, Tencent and Toutiao will be respectively backing the top 3 news aggregators in India, UC News, NewsDog and Daily Hunt.

Deals | Tencent in Talks with India’s Toutiao NewsDog for $30-40M Investment | KrASIA

Deals | Tencent in Talks with India’s Toutiao NewsDog for $30-40M Investment

I'm Xiaochun with KrASIA [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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

Medtech

The UK company has just landed $28 million investment and is targeting another $120 million in the following months.

Tencent Teams up with British Startup Medopad on AI-Powered Healthcare Technologies | KrASIA

Tencent Teams up with British Startup Medopad on AI-Powered Healthcare Technologies

Today’s Tech Headlines: Tencent invests $50m in NewsDog; HMD Global raised $100m

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

Fintech

Chinese authorities worried that a large armada of online lenders would leverage Tencent's credit-scoring services to market suspicious financial products.

Tencent Pulls Credit-scoring Service Right after Launch | KrASIA

Tencent Pulls Credit-scoring Service Right after Launch

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HLA is China’s leading menswear brand with more than 5000 stores across the country.

Deals | Tencent Acquires 5% Stake in Menswear HLA, Branching out to Beachhead in New Retail | KrASIA

Deals | Tencent Acquires 5% Stake in Menswear HLA, Branching out to Beachhead in New Retail

“The deal represents one of the world’s largest single strategic investments between internet companies and brick-and-mortar commercial giants.”

Deals | Tencent, JD Invests in Wanda’s Shopping Malls for $5.4B, A Second-time Charm? | KrASIA

Deals | Tencent, JD Invests in Wanda’s Shopping Malls for $5.4B, A Second-time Charm?

Plus, Google confirmed investment in Go-Jek. Facebook will show more local news stories in news feed.

KrAsia Daily: Tencent Leads US$5.4 billion Investment in Wanda | KrASIA

KrAsia Daily: Tencent Leads US$5.4 billion Investment in Wanda

Plus, Grab and Singapore Taxi Academy (STA) has announced the launch of ExpressOne. YouTube asked musicians to agree not to disparage the streaming-video service in exchange for promotional support.

KrAsia Daily: Tencent Teams up With Carrefour To Take on Alibaba in New Retail | KrASIA

KrAsia Daily: Tencent Teams up With Carrefour To Take on Alibaba in New Retail

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

Entertainment

The team behind the product is Tencent QQ.

Tencent Rolls out Short Video Sharing App DOV to Glue Generation Z | KrASIA

Tencent Rolls out Short Video Sharing App DOV to Glue Generation Z

Brick-and-mortar stores are evolving integrating technologies of tech giants.