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With innovative approaches and a commitment to cultural and environmental needs, Southeast Asian startups can thrive amid competition and market challenges.

Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages | KrASIA

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Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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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

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

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Japan, Korea, and the West

Li Auto

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

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Xpeng

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Deep Tech

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Li Auto, Xpeng, and Huawei lead a Chinese push to scale up AI compute, aiming to close Tesla’s lead in autonomous driving.

China’s automakers pour billions into AI compute race, chasing Tesla’s lead | KrASIA

China’s automakers pour billions into AI compute race, chasing Tesla’s lead

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Nowwa follows Cotti in expanding to the Middle East, targeting growth in an untapped market for Chinese coffee brands.

Chinese coffee brands set sights on Middle East as next big market | KrASIA

Chinese coffee brands set sights on Middle East as next big market

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ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

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How Does Tik Tok Outperform Tencent’s Super App WeChat and Become One of China’s Most Popular Apps? (Part 1) | KrASIA

How Does Tik Tok Outperform Tencent’s Super App WeChat and Become One of China’s Most Popular Apps? (Part 1)

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KrASIA Writers

Will Bullet Comments be Popular in America?

Chinese users enjoyed immensely, yet little moves were made by American innovators

Will Bullet Comments be Popular in America? | KrASIA

Chauncey Jung works with a unicorn Internet firm based out of Beijing. His professional experience pays him off an insider perspective over China’s internet industry. Completed his bachelor and master education in Canada, Chauncey is obsessed with trending technologies and economic developments across Asia. He can be reached at chaunceyzhang@foxmail.com.

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Yet the once-successful product now became somehow shadowed by the latest trending products such as Douyin, Zhihu and Douban.

Dying Forums and Aging Users: Is Baidu’s Star Community Becoming Outdated? | KrASIA

Dying Forums and Aging Users: Is Baidu’s Star Community Becoming Outdated?

Sold 200k Second-hand Books in Six Months, WeChat Account Duozhuayu Provides Books as the Remedy for Urbanites' Anxiety

Standardization, durability and price stability make books a perfect pick for the resale business.

Sold 200k Second-hand Books in Six Months, WeChat Account Duozhuayu Provides Books as the Remedy for Urbanites' Anxiety | KrASIA

Sold 200k Second-hand Books in Six Months, WeChat Account Duozhuayu Provides Books as the Remedy for Urbanites&#8217; Anxiety

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

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Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

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As more Chinese student come to Canada, so did WeChat and AliPay

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities | KrASIA

Kai-Fu LEE of Sinovation Ventures thinks China may become the world's AI superpower.

Bill Gates on AI: “China is No. 2” | KrASIA

Bill Gates on AI: “China is No. 2”

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Knowledge Economy Struggling in China: Douban’s Making Hard Choices on Community Features

In the era of the knowledge economy: It needs to be exclusive. And it needs to be worth the price.

Knowledge Economy Struggling in China: Douban’s Making Hard Choices on Community Features | KrASIA

Tencent CSO: Bitcoin Is An Intrinsically Valueless Asset That Tencent Will Not Bet on

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

Nobel Prize winner warned that cryptocurrency would lead to catastrophe.

Tencent CSO: Bitcoin Is An Intrinsically Valueless Asset That Tencent Will Not Bet on | KrASIA

Surviving on Regulatory Shocks: Vloggers Seeking New Ways to Maintain Profits

Rises and falls of on-live platforms, as well as the fan economy behind Chinese vloggers.