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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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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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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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Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems.

Enterprise Services | KrASIA Archives

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

ByteDance

Another move to challenge its predecessors in the business-to-business marketplace.

ByteDance to open famed proprietary algorithm to external enterprise partners | KrASIA

ByteDance to open famed proprietary algorithm to external enterprise partners

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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The company looks at both geographical and business expansion. 

General Atlantic pledges USD 100 million for Karvy Fintech’s drive into Southeast Asia | KrASIA

General Atlantic pledges USD 100 million for Karvy Fintech’s drive into Southeast Asia

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Setting up the right innovation processes is a matter of survival for large corporations.

Understanding corporate innovation: Adam Lyle from Padang & Co | KrASIA

Understanding corporate innovation: Adam Lyle from Padang &#038; Co

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Zhixin Tan

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

Tencent

Tencent expands its cloud business into Japan | KrASIA

Tencent expands its cloud business into Japan

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Song Jingli

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

Will the Chinese tech giant help Salesforce to catch on in China?

Salesforce links with Alibaba to lure Chinese clients | KrASIA

Salesforce links with Alibaba to lure Chinese clients

Wavecell was backed by notable Southeast Asian VCs before the acquisition.

8x8 acquires Singapore-based cloud communications platform Wavecell for USD 125 million | KrASIA

8&#215;8 acquires Singapore-based cloud communications platform Wavecell for USD 125 million

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

Amazon

Samsung, a South Korean electronics giant, offers smartphones, smart TVs, home appliances, and semiconductors driving novel consumer experiences.

Samsung

South Korea’s tech ecosystem features top electronics firms, world-class mobile technology, and platforms advancing global digital culture.

Amazon Cloud and Samsung servers go down in China after road construction mishap | KrASIA

Amazon Cloud and Samsung servers go down in China after road construction mishap

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Enterprise Services

ByteDance to open famed proprietary algorithm to external enterprise partners

General Atlantic pledges USD 100 million for Karvy Fintech’s drive into Southeast Asia

Understanding corporate innovation: Adam Lyle from Padang & Co

Tencent expands its cloud business into Japan

Salesforce links with Alibaba to lure Chinese clients

8×8 acquires Singapore-based cloud communications platform Wavecell for USD 125 million

Amazon Cloud and Samsung servers go down in China after road construction mishap

China’s software sector grows firmly in first four months of 2019

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