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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.

KrASIA

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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Nikkei Asia

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

WeChat

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Tencent

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

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

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

Payments

online payment

Sending and receiving electric red envelopes posed the biggest pressure to the clearinghouse, followed by shopping and dining.

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival | KrASIA

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival

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Song Jingli

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

Fintech

WeChat Pay

This move is designed to help WeChat close the gap between its 1.08 billion monthly active users and WeChat Pay's 900 million monthly active users.

WeChat Pay is now more convenient for senior citizens | KrASIA

WeChat Pay is now more convenient for senior citizens

Bytedance

Wechat

The Cyberspace Administration of China has ordered WeChat, Liaotianbao, Duoshan, and Matong to follow legal procedures when adding new functions or publishing new applications.

Major Chinese social media platforms ordered to conduct security evaluations | KrASIA

Major Chinese social media platforms ordered to conduct security evaluations

WeChat exposed partial ID information of 17 accounts to showcase different types of fraudsters, offering cheating information on micro-loans, friends making, stocks and part-time jobs.

WeChat bans more than 6,000 accounts for fraud | KrASIA

WeChat bans more than 6,000 accounts for fraud

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

ByteDance

On Saturday, Tencent's WeChat said it "cleaned up" its social media platform, punishing a slew of apps that the company says failed to obey its code of conduct. Links to ByteDance's news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao were also scrubbed. The following day, ByteDance vice president Li Liang hit back by accusing China's most popular social media app of misusing its dominance.

ByteDance and Tencent squabble over social media ‘clean-up’ | KrASIA

ByteDance and Tencent squabble over social media ‘clean-up’

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

Short Video

Tik Tok

Short-video app Douyin, which is known outside of China as Tik Tok, found that one gateway it relied on for onboarding new users - via WeChat - had been

Tencent no longer allows users to create an account on Bytedance's Douyin via WeChat | KrASIA

Tencent no longer allows users to create an account on Bytedance&#8217;s Douyin via WeChat

Voices

Allan Zhang mentioned that the current problem with most Internet companies is the obsession of user acquisition through devious schemes.

WeChat creator Allan Zhang quoted Jeff Bezos to warn product managers to choose kindness over cleverness | KrASIA

WeChat creator Allan Zhang quoted Jeff Bezos to warn product managers to choose kindness over cleverness

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DeFang Tang

Mini Program

WeChat is cementing its position as China's biggest 'super app' by offering its users access to more and more services.

Tencent's WeChat claims 1m mini programs, growing an app store-ish ecosystem | KrASIA

Tencent&#8217;s WeChat claims 1m mini programs, growing an app store-ish ecosystem

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Elaine Huang

Alipay

Changi Airport

In a move to spur Chinese outbound tourists' spending in Singapore, Changi Airport will be deploying WeChat Pay across most of its merchants by end-2018.