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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?

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Nikkei Asia

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

Automotive Aftermarket

Automotive Aftermarket | KrASIA Archives

Consumer reluctance to shop for cars amid the outbreak has severely affected operations in the secondhand auto market.

Coronavirus forces suspensions and salary cuts at China's largest used car marketplace | KrASIA

Coronavirus forces suspensions and salary cuts at China&#8217;s largest used car marketplace

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Carsome has big plans to disrupt Southeast Asia's used car business in 2020.

Carsome CEO Eric Cheng on regional expansions and competition in the pre-owned vehicle marketplace | KrASIA

Carsome CEO Eric Cheng on regional expansions and competition in the pre-owned vehicle marketplace

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Thu Huong Le

Founders of the car servicing company peg the automotive aftermarket at USD 8 to 10 billion.

Sequoia and Chiratae Ventures pump USD 15 million into Go Mechanic | KrASIA

Sequoia and Chiratae Ventures pump USD 15 million into Go Mechanic

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Avanish Tiwary

The company will expect the fourth quarter in 2019 to be profitable.

Cash-burning Chinese second-hand car trader Chehaoduo turns profitable and poised to offer vehicles with better quality | KrASIA

Cash-burning Chinese second-hand car trader Chehaoduo turns profitable and poised to offer vehicles with better quality

Carsome wants to consolidate position in key markets, which are Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

Malaysian used-car marketplace Carsome closes USD 50 million Series C round | KrASIA

Malaysian used-car marketplace Carsome closes USD 50 million Series C round

Besides India, it has operations in Indonesia and Philippines.

China's Ping An leads USD 70 million round in Indian auto company CarDekho | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Ping An leads USD 70 million round in Indian auto company CarDekho

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

Tencent

Online service Tuhu, valued at USD 1.1 billion, seeks USD 400m in new financing.

Tencent muscles further into auto industry by backing repair unicorn | KrASIA

Tencent muscles further into auto industry by backing repair unicorn

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

Venture Capital

The e-commerce penetration rate in the auto maintenance market was only 5% in 2018.

Chinese auto parts e-commerce platform Casstime raises USD 80 million in Series C1, led by Sequoia and Source Code | KrASIA

Chinese auto parts e-commerce platform Casstime raises USD 80 million in Series C1, led by Sequoia and Source Code

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Song Jingli

Apart from expansion, funding to be used to provide vehicle loans to customers

Indian used car platform Cars24 raises USD 100 million in expansion move | KrASIA

Indian used car platform Cars24 raises USD 100 million in expansion move

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