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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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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

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

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

Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. 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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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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T. K. Lin

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

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

Southeast Asia

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

Indonesia

Ula draws inspiration from neighborhood retail in India, and already has 30,000 kiosks signed on in Indonesia.

With big-name backing, Ula digitizes Indonesia's small retailers | Startup Stories

With big-name backing, Ula digitizes Indonesia&#8217;s small retailers | Startup Stories

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Khamila Mulia

Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

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

Tokopedia

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

Listing plans by Grab and Gojek-Tokopedia put focus on profitability.

GoTo sets up three-way battle for Southeast Asian tech dominance

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

As the dark horse in China's hyper competitive courier market, J&T is galloping ahead while bleeding along the way.

One master's two apprentices: How Indonesia's J&T Express rose in China on the back of Pinduoduo

One master&#8217;s two apprentices: How Indonesia&#8217;s J&#038;T Express rose in China on the back of Pinduoduo

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Qianyu Han

Indonesia's large agricultural sector is looking to remove inefficiencies through technology.

Agritech firm TaniHub nets USD 65.5 million in round led by MDI Ventures

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Ursula Florene

JD.com's annual active buyer accounts: 500 million

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

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

The group's retail business, which targets price-sensitive buyers, is struggling to make money amid fierce competition in the sector.

KEY STAT | JD.com maintains momentum with nearly 40% revenue growth in Q1

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Julianna Wu

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

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

A ticker code for GoTo would be a score for IDX.

GoTo will invigorate Indonesia’s stock market, but may need organizational restructuring, experts say

Sea Group operates digital entertainment (Garena), e-commerce (Shopee), and fintech (SeaMoney) platforms across Southeast Asia.

Sea Group

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

Singapore

Garena and Shopee are both approaching the USD 1 billion revenue mark.

Sea Group presses ahead with another quarter of triple-digit revenue growth

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Georg Ackermann

Vietnam

Masan-controlled VinCommerce will gain the right to sell its groceries on Lazada Vietnam.

Alibaba, partners invest USD 400 million in Vietnam’s Masan Group to expand online groceries business

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Tech in Asia

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

The internet giant steps up its e-commerce game with a standalone group-buying app and new marketing feature.

Tencent makes another effort to capitalize on WeChat—to finally become an e-commerce power?

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