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

China

Xpeng Motors builds intelligent EVs equipped with advanced infotainment systems, autonomous features, and sleek electric mobility designs.

Xpeng Motors

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

Xpeng Motors' doesn't expect the global chip shortage to disrupt its production, providing an opportunity to close the gap on its rivals.

Xpeng Motors looks to ramp up production and emerge unscathed from global chip shortage

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AJ Cortese

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

Amazon

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

India

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

Food Tech

Amazon Food will face competition from Alibaba-backed Zomato and Naspers-backed Swiggy in India’s soon-to-be USD 12.53 billion online food delivery industry.

Amazon begins expansion of its food delivery service in India

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Middle East

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

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

Music

Last week, Anghami became the first Arab technology company to announce that it’s going public through a listing on the Nasdaq in New York later this year after merging with a SPAC. As part of the deal, the company is expected to receive anywhere between USD 40 million and USD 210 million in cash from the SPAC and a separate PIPE investment.

Anghami’s journey to the public markets: Everything you need to know

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MENAbytes

BigBasket delivers groceries online, supplying fresh produce, household essentials, and personal care items to Indian customers.

BigBasket

What fits the world in your pocket? Track device innovation, OS ecosystems, and connectivity shaping smartphone usage.

Smartphones

With an aim to launch its super app for India’s 907 million internet users, the digital arm of Tata Sons—the country’s one of the largest multinational corporations—Tata Digital, is in talks with 25-year-old online listing company JustDial to explore a strategic partnership that includes buying stakes in the latter.

India's Tata in talks to partner with online classifieds giant JustDial before launching its own super app

India&#8217;s Tata in talks to partner with online classifieds giant JustDial before launching its own super app

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Avanish Tiwary

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

Southeast Asia

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Singapore

Singapore's Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Baey Yam Keng on Friday announced that e-scooter and electric bicycle riders will soon have to take “mandatory theory tests.” The tests will help ensure all riders of such motorized devices are aware of the existing rules and codes of conduct.

E-scooter and e-bike riders in Singapore must take theory tests from mid-2021

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Vulcan Post

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

Social Impact

Myanmar

As social media emerges to become a virtual battleground for Myanmar's anti-coup protesters galvanizing support from the international community, apps and websites are springing up to help local consumers to identify products and businesses associated with the military.

Myanmar protestors use apps to boycott military-linked products and businesses

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KrASIA Writers

Advertisers are reassessing the value of social media and their reliance on it. The spread of misinformation has grown to a serious concern, prompting them to seek out alternatives that could offer both rich mobile data as well as scale. Carousell, the Singapore-based online marketplace for secondhand goods, thinks it can fill the void. The newly formed Carousell Media Group is combining its different platforms, and the first-party data contained therein, managing director JJ Eastwood told KrASIA in a recent interview. The firm is so able to resolve concerns with a "one-stop ad solution."

Passionate community propels ad revenues at Carousell

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Shannen Tan

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

Venture Capital

Beijing-based question-and-answer platform Zhihu on Friday filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, less than two years after the company closed a USD 434 million Series F round led by Baidu and Kuaishou in August 2019. Details on the IPO have not been disclosed.

Chinese Q&A app Zhihu files for US IPO

Chinese Q&#038;A app Zhihu files for US IPO

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Song Jingli

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

Investment

The city-state, one of Asia's bigger financial centers, is emerging as a trading hub for digital securities, or security tokens backed by financial assets. Exchanges to trade these innovative securities are being set up by both local and external players, which hope to attract issuers and investors to their platforms. Growth in Singapore is also spurring initiatives in other Asian countries such as Thailand and Japan, confirming its regional hub status.

Singapore emerges as Asia's digital securities trading hub

Singapore emerges as Asia&#8217;s digital securities trading hub

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BeautyCam owner Meitu's investment in crypto: USD 40m

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

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

Creative

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

Meitu (HKEX: 1357), the company behind selfie app BeautyCam, said on Sunday that it purchased ether and bitcoin worth USD 22.1 million and USD 17.9 million, respectively, in the open market last week, making it the first major Chinese tech company to invest in cryptocurrencies.

KEY STAT | Beauty app Meitu becomes first Chinese tech firm to invest in crypto

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