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Coffee

Amid slowing sales, new CEO Brian Niccol is steering Starbucks back to basics, reviving its “third space” community focus.

With Luckin Coffee on the rise, Starbucks scales back discounts and returns to its roots | KrASIA

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With Luckin Coffee on the rise, Starbucks scales back discounts and returns to its roots

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

KrASIA

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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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

Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages

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.

China Tech

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.

Tesla

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

Mobility

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

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Creative

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

Entertainment

Sugarbook saw an uptick in user traffic during the pandemic.

Malaysia bans sugar dating site for immoral activities, arrests founder | KrASIA

Malaysia bans sugar dating site for immoral activities, arrests founder

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Stephanie Li

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

India

New Delhi welcomes move in line with self-reliant manufacturing push.

Amazon partners with Foxconn to make Fire TV Sticks in India | KrASIA

Amazon partners with Foxconn to make Fire TV Sticks in India

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

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

Douyin

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Kuaishou's blockbuster Hong Kong debut showed the huge investor appetite in the short video market.

ByteDance's Douyin eyes New York listing: Report | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin eyes New York listing: Report

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Retail

JD.com is taking its third subsidiary public.JD.com Inc plans to list its shipping business in Hong Kong, raising potentially billions of dollars to capitalize on China’s post-Covid e-commerce boom.

JD.com plans to list shipping unit to ride e-commerce boom | KrASIA

JD.com plans to list shipping unit to ride e-commerce boom

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

BigBasket

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

Grocery Delivery

The acquisition will give a full exit to Alibaba and private equity firm Abraaj Group.

Indian conglomerate Tata Group buys e-grocer BigBasket for USD 1.2 billion: Report | KrASIA

Indian conglomerate Tata Group buys e-grocer BigBasket for USD 1.2 billion: Report

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

The service hasn't been registered with the ministry yet.

Indonesian government threatens ban on popular Clubhouse app | KrASIA

Indonesian government threatens ban on popular Clubhouse app

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Ursula Florene

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Electric Vehicles

The additional registration fee will be lowered to zero from January 2022.

Singapore sets aside USD 22 million for EV-related initiatives, raises petrol duty | KrASIA

Singapore sets aside USD 22 million for EV-related initiatives, raises petrol duty

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Vulcan Post

Smart homeschooling will push the entire education process in school to rethink. Photo by William Iven on Unsplash

Bjyu's

Edtech

If the talks go through, it would be one of the largest consolidation deals in the Indian edtech space.

Byju's looks to gobble smaller rival Toppr for USD 150 million | KrASIA

Byju&#8217;s looks to gobble smaller rival Toppr for USD 150 million

MENA

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

In January, six Israeli startups closed mega rounds, each pulling in more than USD 100 million in one go and bumping up their valuations.

Israeli companies raised record USD 1.44 billion in January, report says | KrASIA

Israeli companies raised record USD 1.44 billion in January, report says

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