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

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Nikkei Asia

Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

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

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

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

Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. 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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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

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Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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T. K. Lin

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories—alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.

Insights | KrASIA

Didi, a Chinese mobility platform, connects riders to taxis, private cars, and ride-sharing options, integrating AI-driven route optimization.

Didi

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

On-demand Services

In a monopoly, customers will pay more than they would in a competitive market.

Turning Monopoly into a Duopoly?--Chinese Ride-sharing Business Enters the Path of Competition, again

Turning Monopoly into a Duopoly?&#8211;Chinese Ride-sharing Business Enters the Path of Competition, again

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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Chauncey Jung

SoftBank is a global tech investor fueling startups, telecommunications ventures, and AI-driven innovations across international markets.

SoftBank

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

Transportation

At the end of the day, SoftBank is the winner in ride-hailing.

Is SoftBank Really Orchestrating A Merger between Uber and Didi Chuxing?

I'm Xiaochun with 36Kr Global [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Xiaochun Zhao

In a development forum, Rolin Li spoke about Chinese users’ view on personal privacy, saying that the Chinese users are ‘less sensitive’ to trading away their privacies for more conveniences.

Trading Privacy for Conveniences: How Chinese Internet Users are Struggling in Their High Techs?

Bytedance General Manager ZHANG Nan: Tik Tok Meshes with China’s Consumption Upgrade Trends (Part 2)

ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

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

Entertainment

How Does Tik Tok Outperform Tencent’s Super App WeChat and Become One of China’s Most Popular Apps? (Part 2)

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KrASIA Writers

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

Will Bullet Comments be Popular in America?

Opinion

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

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?

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&#8217; Anxiety

WeChat and AliPay Expanding their Businesses into Canadian Universities

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.

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