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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

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

China

The 22-year-old founder isn’t looking to make marketers more efficient. She wants Head AI to make them obsolete.

With Head AI, this Gen Z dropout aims to replace marketing teams entirely

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Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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AI Now!

How do virtual worlds expand reality? Discover AR/VR tools, content creation, and platforms layering digital information onto everyday life.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

The Leion Hey2 pushes smart glasses closer to making seamless multilingual conversations a reality.

Break the language barrier: Leion Hey2 brings live translation to eyewear

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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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

JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

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.

E-commerce

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

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

On-demand Services

What drives global exploration? Discover evolving tourism trends, hospitality services, and the shift toward personalized travel experiences.

Travel

In a candid address, JD.com’s founder maps a future grounded in core principles and innovation.

Richard Liu and 20 things he wants you to know about JD.com’s future

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

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

Xiaomi surpasses Apple to become world’s second largest smartphone brand as the company ramps up its presence in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Xiaomi surpasses Apple to become world’s second largest smartphone brand

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

Merck Accelerator China announces 2021 cohort with focus on AI and biotech. Merck will invest up to EUR 50,000 (USD 60,000) in participating startups.

Merck Accelerator China announces 2021 cohort with focus on AI and biotech

Technical assessment and hiring platform ShowMeBug bags USD 15 million Series A from Sequoia Capital and Hillhouse Capital

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

India

Paytm, an Indian digital payments app, enables mobile transactions, bill payments, and financial products for millions of users.

Paytm

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

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

Paytm's IPO will be the largest-ever listing in the Indian capital market, surpassing Coal India’s INR 154.75 billion IPO in 2010.

Paytm files draft prospectus for mega USD 2.2 billion IPO

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

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

Medtech

Cancer therapy startup Alpha Tau to go public at USD 1 billion valuation. It has Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for its Alpha DaRT technology.

Cancer therapy startup Alpha Tau to go public with USD 1 billion valuation

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Oyo, an Indian hospitality platform, aggregates affordable accommodations, bringing travelers budget hotels and homestays under one brand.

Oyo has 100,000 hotel partners globally and is adding over 11,000 rooms every month in India.

SoftBank-backed Oyo receives USD 660 million loan from global investors to clear debts

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Avanish Tiwary

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

Didi

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

Ride-hailing

Tax, transport, and competition regulators part of on-site security probe.

Chinese officials from 7 agencies join Didi investigation

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is a platform that connects users to curated content for fashion, beauty, travel, and more.

Social commerce company Xiaohongshu aborts plans for US IPO, Bloomberg says, following the likes of ByteDance, Keep, Soulgate, Ximalaya, and LinkDoc.

Social commerce company Xiaohongshu reportedly aborts plans for US IPO

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Brady Ng

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

Autonomous Vehicles

White Rhino’s autonomous delivery system gets tune-up with new investment. The company works with Yonghui Superstores and build new infrastructure.