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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

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KrASIA

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

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

Health Tech

Health Tech | KrASIA Archives

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

Xiaomi crafts affordable smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices, appealing to users who seek innovation, quality, and budget-friendly tech.

Xiaomi

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

How do connected devices shape daily life? Examine IoT sensors, data platforms, and security protocols integrating smart tech into homes and cities.

Internet of Things

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

Private Equity

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

Venture Capital

A HKD 10 billion (USD 1.3 billion) share repurchase plan pushed up Xiaomi's Hong Kong-listed stock by almost 10% on Friday morning, to later close the session 4.12% higher at HKD 22.75. The smartphone vendor, together with its affiliate Shunwei Capital, also announced that both invested in the Series C round of Shanghai-based company I-Fitness, contributing more than RMB 100 million (USD 15 million).

Xiaomi invests in bodybuilding community to lift IoT products | KrASIA

Xiaomi invests in bodybuilding community to lift IoT products

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Song Jingli

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

Thailand

Thailand's teleconsulting startups hope to reform the country's inefficient healthcare system, but regulatory hurdles hinder mass adoption.

Teleconsulting startups kick pandemic blues for Thailand’s medical tourism industry | KrASIA

Teleconsulting startups kick pandemic blues for Thailand’s medical tourism industry

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Stephanie Li

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

On-demand Services

Indonesia

The drive-through vaccination center at the Jakarta International Expo in Kemayoran, North Jakarta, comprises of four posts. Assistants are verifying IDs and registration status at the entry, and once cleared, visitors will move to the second post to undergo a health check, including blood pressure, oxygen saturation level, and history of comorbidity. Patients without problems are being ushered to the third stop where they finally will be injected with the Sinovac vaccine.

Indonesia reels in its unicorns to accelerate vaccination program | KrASIA

Indonesia reels in its unicorns to accelerate vaccination program

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Maran Virumandi explains how DoctorOnCall is trying to make healthcare more accessible in Malaysia.

Tuning In | Maran Virumandi on bridging the Malaysian medical divide with telehealth services | KrASIA

Tuning In | Maran Virumandi on bridging the Malaysian medical divide with telehealth services

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Taro Ishida

Net profit growth of Star Market-listed companies

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

Biotechnology

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

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

Medtech

Net profits in the biotech and medtech sector increased almost fivefold from the year before. Total revenue of companies listed on the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Board (Star Market) amounted to USD 51.35 billion in 2020, up 15.6% year-on-year, while the net profit of the 232 enterprises reached USD 7.15 billion, almost 60% higher than the year before, according to 36Kr.

KEY STAT | Star Market-listed companies show robust growth in 2020 | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Star Market-listed companies show robust growth in 2020

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Julianna Wu

What drives digital education adoption? Analyze e-learning apps, AI-driven assessments, and tools enhancing student engagement.

Edtech

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Education

As the COVID-19 pandemic forces businesses in Southeast Asia to adapt, the intersection of technology and two key industries in the region, healthcare and education, are burgeoning.

Healthtech and edtech: Southeast Asia’s new frontiers | KrASIA

Healthtech and edtech: Southeast Asia’s new frontiers

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Deloitte Southeast Asia Innovation Team

Harya Bimo founded Medigo to digitize healthcare data and make clinical consultations more accessible.

Tuning In | Harya Bimo on digitizing Indonesia’s healthcare system from the ground up | KrASIA

Tuning In | Harya Bimo on digitizing Indonesia’s healthcare system from the ground up

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Sara Mandagie

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

Tencent

Yuanxin runs online presences for more than 200 traditional hospitals.

Medtech firm Yuanxin raises USD 465 million from Sequoia and Tencent | KrASIA

Medtech firm Yuanxin raises USD 465 million from Sequoia and Tencent

Guangzhou-based Vision Medicals focuses on gene technology innovation and infection precision medicine.