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What drives digital storytelling? Examine content creation, distribution channels, and media platforms connecting audiences worldwide.

Content

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

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

Entertainment

How do visuals captivate global viewers? Dive into streaming services, production models, and evolving formats defining video engagement.

Video

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A new wave of short drama actors has risen from anonymity to mainstream fame, challenging the hierarchy of China’s entertainment industry.

How short dramas are turning everyday actors into China’s newest idols

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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

What began as a mobile playmate for cats and dogs has grown into a global line of companion robots.

Inside Enabot’s quest to build companion robots first for pets, then for people

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Agibot

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

Embodied Intelligence

Agibot, Galbot, UBTech, and Dobot are leading the charge, with all-purpose models expected to lag behind.

China's humanoid robot makers ramp up production despite tech hurdles

China&#8217;s humanoid robot makers ramp up production despite tech hurdles

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

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

E-commerce

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On-demand Services

Pinduoduo revolutionizes e-commerce with social group buying, connecting budget-conscious shoppers to discounts on a broad range of products.

Pinduoduo

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

Part of the company's efforts to reframe Pinduoduo as a marketplace for branded merchandise.

Pinduoduo now also wants to tap China's agricultural supply chain sector

Pinduoduo now also wants to tap China&#8217;s agricultural supply chain sector

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Bukalapak, an Indonesian marketplace, empowers small merchants and connects consumers with diverse products online.

Bukalapak

Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

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

Tokopedia

By empowering agents or small kiosks, tech players including e-commerce firms are helping bridge the formal and informal economies.

Offline programs are getting tech players more customers in Indonesia

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Cindy Silviana

Flipkart, a prominent Indian e-commerce marketplace, hosts electronics, fashion, and home goods with fast shipping and easy returns.

Flipkart

In its earnings report, Walmart said inclusion of Flipkart negatively affected its operating income.

Walmart shuts one of Flipkart's fashion arms

Walmart shuts one of Flipkart&#8217;s fashion arms

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Avanish Tiwary

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

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

Venture Capital

Meesho, Bulbul, EkAnek and HappyShappy are contending for greater video commerce market share in India.

Shunwei Capital backs SimSim as Indian video e-commerce plays to the gallery

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Priya Pradeep

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

JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

Another battlefield for these two Chinese e-commerce giants.

Beijing Intellectual Property Court takes ‘Double 11’ trademark dispute involving JD.com and Alibaba

It booked RMB 134.8 billion (USD 118.9 billion) in net revenue in the third quarter of this year, up 28.7% year-on-year.

JD.com reveals its health subsidiary is valued at USD 7 billion amid Q3 earnings release

It has started a global offering of 500 million ordinary shares to raise about USD 13.8 billion.

Alibaba to start trading in Hong Kong to secure its global expansion (updated)

Amazon leads e-commerce, streaming (Prime Video), and AWS cloud infrastructure, redefining retail, media, and data services.

Amazon

Private labels have lately become popular among internet companies as it promises higher returns.

Amazon's hidden card to foster private labels in India

Amazon&#8217;s hidden card to foster private labels in India

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

The nod clears the way for Hangzhou-based Alibaba to start a weeklong roadshow from November 13 to garner interest from global investors.

Alibaba gets nod to sell shares in Hong Kong, in a secondary listing that catapults city back to the top of world’s IPO ranking

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E-commerce

Pinduoduo now also wants to tap China’s agricultural supply chain sector

Offline programs are getting tech players more customers in Indonesia

Walmart shuts one of Flipkart’s fashion arms