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

Consumer Services

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?

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

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

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

India

While Slintel focuses on the US, EU, and APAC markets, it saw many inbound leads from India and Asia last year.

GGV Capital leads USD 20 million Series A round in sales intelligence startup Slintel | KrASIA

GGV Capital leads USD 20 million Series A round in sales intelligence startup Slintel

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Avanish Tiwary

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

ByteDance

Volcano Engine was originally developed to empower ByteDance’s own suite of apps, including TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao. Volcano Engine will be available in September or October this year, after major corporations in China sought to utilize what was once an internal tool developed to empower ByteDance’s own line of consumer-facing apps.

ByteDance to serve enterprise clients with eruption of data via Volcano Engine | KrASIA

ByteDance to serve enterprise clients with eruption of data via Volcano Engine

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Brady Ng

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

Verbit, a US-Israeli AI-powered transcription and captioning platform, has raised USD 157 million in Series D funding, giving the company unicorn status.

Israeli AI transcription startup Verbit raises USD 157 million at unicorn valuation | KrASIA

Israeli AI transcription startup Verbit raises USD 157 million at unicorn valuation

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The latest funding round has quadrupled the valuation of the seven-year-old Whatfix to USD 600 million. Whatfix is SoftBank's third investment in India this year after social commerce startup Meesho and banking tech company Zeta.

SoftBank leads USD 90 million Series D in Indian B2B SaaS startup Whatfix | KrASIA

SoftBank leads USD 90 million Series D in Indian B2B SaaS startup Whatfix

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

The company says it currently has 125,000 customers across over 200 industries in more than 190 countries.

Work management platform Monday.com to file for IPO on Nasdaq | KrASIA

Work management platform Monday.com to file for IPO on Nasdaq

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

E-commerce

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

Fintech

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

Health Tech

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

What medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

India added 12 unicorns from January to April. Four of these firms operate in the B2B sector, and more will follow.

Billions pour into Indian B2B companies, creating more and more unicorns | KrASIA Spotlight | KrASIA

Billions pour into Indian B2B companies, creating more and more unicorns | KrASIA Spotlight

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

Singapore

Singapore is a breeding ground for high-tech B2B firms, but Southeast Asia is not enough for these companies.

Southeast Asia's new herd of unicorns gallop forth from B2B tech | KrASIA Spotlight | KrASIA

Southeast Asia&#8217;s new herd of unicorns gallop forth from B2B tech | KrASIA Spotlight

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Khamila Mulia

The startup is working with several banks to help customers open accounts, secure loans, and make digital payments while meeting compliance standards.

Israeli-based Lightico streamlines digital interactions with client-focused platform | KrASIA

Israeli-based Lightico streamlines digital interactions with client-focused platform

How do virtual worlds expand reality? Discover AR/VR tools, content creation, and platforms layering digital information onto everyday life.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

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The Japanese fund is an LP in Blume Ventures, through which it invests in idea-stage deep tech startups.