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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

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

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

Jia Yueting, founder of formerly highflying technology conglomerate LeEco Holdings, has been fined USD 36.81 million by Chinese regulators over false and inadequate financial disclosures in the 2010 IPO of its video streaming unit in Shenzhen and other fundraisings.The fine comes as Faraday Future, a California-based electric vehicle maker that was backed by Jia and LeEco, is in the midst of a USD 1 billion deal to list on the Nasdaq Stock Market through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Property Solutions Acquisition Corp.

China fines SPAC-linked fallen tech tycoon USD 37 million over IPO fraud

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

Grab

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

Southeast Asia

Uber is a mobility platform that connects users to ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics services, operating in cities worldwide.

Uber

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

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

On-demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

With Grab in the spotlight for the largest ever SPAC merger that brands the company with a valuation close to USD 40 billion, KrASIA set out to answer that question. To find out what it is like to be part of a company that has reshaped not only the socioeconomic conditions in Southeast Asia but also the physical feel of the region’s urban nodes, I spoke with five people who have worked at Grab in its various phases, from shortly after its inception to the present, each pouring all their energies into tasks at different divisions to make Grab what it is today.

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever

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Brady Ng

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

Middle East

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Mobility

ntel’s Jerusalem-based subsidiary Mobileye announced plans on Monday to launch driverless delivery services by 2023 with autonomous vehicle delivery company Udelv, with commercial operations set to begin in 2023.The company’s Mobileye Drive self-driving system, a unique turnkey solution designed to support a range of autonomous vehicle (AV) applications—robotaxis, consumer passenger cars, and commercial delivery vehicles—will power Udelv’s next-generation electric, self-driving delivery vehicle, Transporter, according to the announcement.

Mobileye teams up with US firm for autonomous delivery service by 2023

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NoCamels

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

Merger &amp; Acquisition

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

Venture Capital

Singapore

Grab announced today that it will undergo a SPAC merger with Altimeter Growth Corporation (NASDAQ: AGC) that will place a USD 39.6 billion valuation on the Southeast Asian company.

Grab steers into New York for world's largest SPAC merger

Grab steers into New York for world&#8217;s largest SPAC merger

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Ursula Florene

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

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

Ant Group

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

Fintech

China's central bank and three other financial regulators summoned Ant Group on Monday, demanding the company to correct "serious problems" in its business and improve its competitiveness, months after its USD 34.4 billion IPO was suspended in November.

China's Ant Group forced to rectify and make sweeping changes under pressure from regulators

China&#8217;s Ant Group forced to rectify and make sweeping changes under pressure from regulators

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Song Jingli

700 people working for DJI's car-related business unit

DJI sets industry standards in drone technology, offering aerial imaging, filming solutions, and advanced flight controls for professionals and hobbyists.

What hovers over new frontiers? Explore drone logistics, aerial data collection, and surveillance tools shaping multiple industries.

Drones

DJI is set to release a new auto-related product during the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition next week, local news media Yicai reported on Tuesday. In the launch poster, a silhouette of an automobile appears below the brand name DJI Chezai, which can roughly be translated as "DJI vehicle-mounted," keeping the mystery alive.

KEY STAT | Drone manufacturer DJI ventures into auto sector, keeps product under wraps

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Julianna Wu

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

Sea Group

Shopee, a Southeast Asian online marketplace, features interactive shopping, flash deals, and localized payment options.

Shopee

Indonesia

ea Group's e-commerce platform Shopee is facing allegations of underpaying its Indonesian couriers, as some drivers claim that their pay per delivered package was reduced.The information was first shared on Twitter, showing a chat between a Shopee Express courier and a customer, who asked why his package had not been shipped yet. The courier explained that they were on strike as their pay for each package was cut from IDR 2,000 (USD 0.14) to IDR 1,500 (USD 0.10).

Anger boils in Indonesia as Shopee allegedly underpays its couriers

What extends a car’s lifecycle beyond the showroom? Investigate spare parts, performance upgrades, and services fueling the secondary automotive market.

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Singaporean classifieds marketplace Carousell has entered into the online used car marketplace with the launch of its auto sector, which is already accounting for a third of the group’s revenue.The news comes at a time when all eyes are on Carousell, which is on the verge of becoming Southeast Asia's next unicorn after bagging a USD 80 million investment from a consortium led by South Korean tech giant Naver last September. Carousell’s co-founder and CEO Quek Siu Rui told CNBC in an interview last October that the firm is increasing its focus on becoming profitable “in the next three to four years."

Carousell jumps on the automotive e-commerce bandwagon while navigating path to profitability

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Stephanie Li

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

Deep Tech

Q&amp;A

The Singapore Deep-Tech Alliance, a program powered by Xnode, A*STAR, and NHIC, is looking to develop and grow Singaporean deep tech startups.

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&A with XNode Singapore

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&#038;A with XNode Singapore

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Khamila Mulia

Pressured by the ruling Communist Party at home and the US administration abroad, Chinese startups have begun rethinking plans to go public in anticipation of further obstacles down the road.The impact is especially pronounced on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Star market, where 88 companies, including some of China's most promising unicorns, have suspended or canceled planned initial public offerings over the first three and a half months of 2021.

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