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

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

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China

The company’s sensors weave into textiles and surfaces, offering a scalable haptics solution for robots, vehicles, and smart environments.

With fresh funding, JQ Industries bets on fiber sensors to give machines a sense of touch

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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

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

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

With the YU7, Xiaomi seeks not only redemption, but a shot at surpassing Tesla.

After SU7 setback, Xiaomi reboots EV push with safer, smarter YU7

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

With clients like BYD and Ecovacs, the Shenzhen-based firm says its purpose-built tightening robots can outperform generic systems.

A smarter way to tighten screws? Slabor lands early funding to prove it

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

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

Blockchain

Longhash

Decentralised applications cut across all industries from the financial industry to real estate to art.

Longhash Emma Cui on blockchain and the potential of decentralisation

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Shiwen Yap

Edric Lin

EngageRocket

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Wanted

Can Wanted beat its competitors, which include traditional recruitment agencies, by offering cash rewards?

South Korean social referral recruitment platform Wanted has a big plan for Southeast Asia

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Elaine Huang

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

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Easy Taxi

HalalNode

Jianggan Li

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Momentum Works

Rocket Internet

Zalora

Finding the right people was a challenge for the company initially, he said, managing 30 hires at Momentum Works.

Momentum Works LI Jianggan: How to build a venture builder

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LogRhythm

Matthew Winter

SingHealth

In light of the recent SingHealth attack, Matthew Winter of LogRhythm discusses how such breaches can be prevented.

Understanding digital clues key in cyber breaches: LogRhythm exec

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

Medtech

Caregiver Asia

Healthcare

Yeo Wan Ling

Operating out of Singapore, Malaysia and the US, this caregiver and care seeker matching platform has seen positive results, says CEO Yeo Wan Ling.

Caregiver Asia on a tech-powered eldercare market in Singapore

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

Consumer Economy

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

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Carousell

Marcus Tan

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Mobile App

Six years in, what has popular Singaporean mobile marketplace Carousell learnt? Co-founder Marcus Tan shares more with KrASIA.

Carousell co-founder Marcus Tan's grand vision for the mobile marketplace

Carousell co-founder Marcus Tan&#8217;s grand vision for the mobile marketplace

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

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Mary Biggins

MealPal

Paul Clifford

US-based foodtech company MealPal aims to help busy corporates in Singapore skip the queue at restaurants.

Takeout subscription app MealPal launches in Singapore

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

Elderly

Lim Meng Hui

SmartPeep

The team of 13 has extracted more than 10,000 worth of samples from videos to train the machine to detect falls or signs of distress.

SmartPeep takes a step towards preventing falls with video AI

Dorothy Yiu

Human Resources

Leong Chee Tung

Founded in Singapore by two ex-Gallup staff, this Software-as-a-Service company boasts Sephora as a client, among others.

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