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How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

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

Why do firms join forces? Investigate synergy goals, valuation methods, and negotiations driving corporate consolidation.

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What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

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What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Spirit AI is playing to win in China’s embodied AI race.

Entrepreneurship is like “playing a game,” says Spirit AI co-founder Gao Yang

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How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

What sets the world’s soundtrack? Follow streaming royalties, label strategies, and genre shifts guiding the global music industry’s rhythm.

Music

With fans showing up in all weather and at any price, the concert economy is taking center stage in China.

Three hours onstage, and an economy moves: Inside China’s concert boom

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

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Ant Group, a fintech powerhouse, offers digital payments, wealth management tools, and micro loans, enabling borderless, mobile-first financial services.

Ant Group

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.

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F&B platform Chope recently signed a strategic partnership with Alipay that will allow merchants to set up mini apps on the Chope app.

6 thoughts from Chope CEO Arrif Ziaudeen on digitizing restaurants across Southeast Asia

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China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Meituan, China’s all-in-one local services platform, covers food delivery, travel bookings, and lifestyle deals, simplifying daily consumer choices.

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

Mobility

Meituan faces new antitrust probe into 2018 acquisition of bike-sharing firm Mobike. China is tightening regulations for the country’s sharing economy.

Meituan faces new antitrust probe into 2018 acquisition of bike-sharing firm Mobike

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

Grab

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

Ride-hailing

How can businesses drive positive change? Study policies, ESG strategies, and community initiatives fostering global social advancement.

Social Impact

PM Lee 'especially concerned' about lack of security for delivery drivers.

Singapore eyes gig worker welfare in wake-up call for ASEAN startups

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Foodpanda, a food delivery platform in multiple Asian countries, connects diners with local restaurants and international cuisines.

Foodpanda

The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

Thailand

Foodpanda's business crisis is impacting riders' wallets as orders have decreased after an incident during a pro-democracy movement.

Foodpanda is facing a brand crisis in Thailand, but delivery riders bear the brunt

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Foodpanda riders in Chiang Mai strike against pay cuts. The protesters don’t want to reach out to Foodpanda because they are typically ignored, one said.

Foodpanda riders in Chiang Mai strike against pay cuts

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

Gojek

Cloud kitchens are expected to represent a 15% share of the overall Indonesian online food delivery industry GMV by the end of 2021.

Cloud kitchens heat up in Indonesia as the food delivery sector keeps growing

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

India

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

Zomato

Zomato, which entered the food delivery segment in 2015, completed a billion orders on its platform last week.

Zomato's losses expand 168% in April–June quarter

Zomato&#8217;s losses expand 168% in April–June quarter

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

Sea Group

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

Grocery Delivery

Vietnam

Vietnam faces delivery rider shortage during deadly fourth wave. Riders take risks to deliver essential items and face fines set by the state.

Vietnam faces delivery rider shortage during deadly fourth wave

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

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

E-commerce

CCI has been quite active in investigating internet companies that are allegedly exploiting their dominant position in the market.

Competition Commission of India to tighten its grip on digital companies

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