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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 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.

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Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of connection.

This 26-year-old built a social app where fighting is not a bug, but a feature

AI Now! is a global AI community of Chinese developers, professionals, and founders.

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How do we operate off Earth? Explore satellites, launch services, and research ventures pioneering new space economies.

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Startups in Southeast Asia are poised to explore new frontiers in the space economy.

Unlocking growth in orbit: How startups can harness opportunities in the booming space economy

Michelle Khoo is the leader of the Deloitte Center for The Edge Southeast Asia. With over a decade of experience in advising business and government leaders on long-term strategies, Khoo is passionate about shaping a more sustainable, fairer, and inclusive future in both physical and digital realms. Her work revolves around artificial intelligence, sustainability, metaverse, disruption, and innovation.

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Michelle Khoo

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

Food Delivery

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

India

Swiggy’s Indian delivery network offers food, groceries, and convenience items, catering to busy urban lifestyles.

Swiggy

Zomato, an Indian food delivery platform, lets customers discover eateries, order meals, and explore culinary experiences.

Zomato

What revolutionizes mealtimes? Investigate alternative proteins, supply chain tracking, and delivery services fueling the future of food.

Food Tech

A host of tech startups such as DotPe, Petpooja, and Google-backed Dunzo have been working with restaurants to help them diversify their food delivery business.

How restaurants in India are bypassing the duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy

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Tausif Alam

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

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

AirAsia said that it is calling for interested fresh produce and grocery merchants in Singapore to join the launch of its delivery service.

AirAsia to launch grocery delivery service in Singapore

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

E-commerce

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

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

Grab

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

Myanmar

“I am delivering food to others so they do not need to go out and risk their lives,” a food delivery driver told KrASIA.

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Myanmar&#8217;s coup nearly put food delivery drivers out of business | Tech in Culture

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

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

Logistics

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

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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

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Khamila Mulia

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

Ele.me, a Chinese online food delivery platform, partners with local restaurants to provide fast, convenient dining options to urban consumers.

Ele.me

The practice of overstating promotions has long been a common way to attract attention to delivery platforms.

KEY STAT | Food delivery platform Ele.me fined for misleading pricing

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Julianna Wu

Indonesian startup eyes super app status; local player Be expects profit in 2021.

Gojek starts car-hailing service in Vietnam in challenge to Grab

Blinkit (formerly Grofers) focuses on instant grocery delivery, bringing everyday essentials directly to Indian households.

Blinkit

Zomato temporarily rolled out grocery delivery service last year when India was under lockdown and the demand for groceries had picked up.

E-grocer Grofers scraps IPO plans, in talks to raise USD 100 million from food tech giant Zomato

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Cambodia

Local apps see digital payments overtake cash for the first time as orders surge.