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

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

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

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Laifen is sinking serious money into shavers, wagering that innovation will help it trump incumbents like Philips and Braun.

After hair dryers, Laifen targets the other side of bathroom counters with a shaver built from scratch

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Businesses offering bargains came out ahead of their high-end peers, based on Q1 earnings.

Discount coffee, hotels thrive in China's penny-pinching economy

Discount coffee, hotels thrive in China&#8217;s penny-pinching economy

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

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

Amazon

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

Flipkart

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

Offline traders chart their own e-commerce journeys as CCI investigates Flipkart and Amazon.

India’s offline traders are challenging Flipkart and Amazon head-on

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

What drives digital education adoption? Analyze e-learning apps, AI-driven assessments, and tools enhancing student engagement.

Edtech

How is healthcare going digital? Investigate telemedicine, wearable sensors, and data-driven platforms improving patient experiences.

Health Tech

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

Payments

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

Short Video

ByteDance is looking to continually upgrade its new verticals, including on-demand services, e-commerce, healthcare, and edtech.

As the short-video wave crests, ByteDance accelerates monetization through new verticals

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Lenskart predicts the combined opportunity for eyewear in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to reach USD 15 billion by 2025.

SoftBank-backed eyewear omnichannel retailer raises USD 220 million for global expansion

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is a platform that connects users to curated content for fashion, beauty, travel, and more.

Social commerce company Xiaohongshu aborts plans for US IPO, Bloomberg says, following the likes of ByteDance, Keep, Soulgate, Ximalaya, and LinkDoc.

Social commerce company Xiaohongshu reportedly aborts plans for US IPO

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WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

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

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

Taobao, Alibaba’s consumer-to-consumer marketplace, connects Chinese shoppers with diverse products, from fashion and electronics to everyday essentials.

Taobao

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

Tmall, Alibaba’s B2C platform, hosts premium brands and official stores, offering authenticated products to Chinese consumers seeking quality goods.

Tmall

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

WeChat

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

Content

Tencent and Alibaba’s truce brings sweeping consequences for ByteDance and Pinduoduo. China's e-commerce landscape is being reshaped completely.

Tencent and Alibaba’s truce brings sweeping consequences for ByteDance and Pinduoduo

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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

Alibaba and Tencent weigh openings in ‘walled gardens’ to open services to each other. China’s internet sector has long been cleaved into two camps.

Alibaba and Tencent weigh openings in ‘walled gardens’ to make services accessible to each other, report says

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

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

Automotive Aftermarket

Carsome has sights on unicorn status with successive acquisitions in race with Carro. Both Carsome and Carro have plans to list in New York.

Carsome has sights on unicorn status with successive acquisitions in race with Carro

SoftBank is a global tech investor fueling startups, telecommunications ventures, and AI-driven innovations across international markets.

SoftBank

Tiger Global, a US-based venture firm, backs internet and software businesses scaling across multiple regions.

Tiger Global

The new funding marks the re-entry of SoftBank on Flipkart's cap table after three years.

SoftBank returns to Flipkart's cap table with a USD 3.6 billion funding round

SoftBank returns to Flipkart&#8217;s cap table with a USD 3.6 billion funding round

The Middle East’s growing tech ecosystem harnesses the enterprising spirit of innovators from its diverse cultural markets.

Middle East

Where do style and commerce meet? Examine supply chains, sustainable sourcing, and digital trends influencing global fashion markets.

Fashion

Nejree raises USD 15 million Series A for "try now, buy later" fashion e-commerce platform that addresses customers' concerns when buying apparel online.

Nejree raises USD 15 million Series A for 'try now, buy later' fashion e-commerce platform

Nejree raises USD 15 million Series A for &#8216;try now, buy later&#8217; fashion e-commerce platform

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