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

Baidu

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

China

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

East Asia

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

Autonomous 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

Europe

Trials are underway even as narrow roads and competition from buses pose potential hurdles.

UK, Europe emerge as robotaxi battleground for Baidu and Waymo

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

Deep Tech

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

Medtech

StairMed’s co-founders foresee BCI technology enabling unprecedented forms of human-machine interaction.

How far are brain-computer interfaces from restoring and extending human ability?

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

Logistics

With operations in 170 cities nationwide, the startup is building one of the fastest-growing autonomous delivery fleets in China.

Rino.ai raises new funding to accelerate toward mass production of autonomous cargo vans

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

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

India

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

Locus plans to use the funds for improving geographical reach as well as building its research and development team to expand its product line.

Tiger-backed Indian logistics tech startup Locus raises USD 50 million

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

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Huawei, a global telecom and smartphone vendor, delivers networking equipment, 5G solutions, and consumer devices integrating cutting-edge tech.

What fits the world in your pocket? Track device innovation, OS ecosystems, and connectivity shaping smartphone usage.

Smartphones

Embattled Chinese company aims to update 200 million handsets with Google replacement. Huawei aims to have 200 million existing handsets switch from Google's Android operating system to its own HarmonyOS by the end of the year.

Huawei to bring in-house HarmonyOS to smartphones

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

Southeast Asia

What revolutionizes mealtimes? Investigate alternative proteins, supply chain tracking, and delivery services fueling the future of food.

Food Tech

Singapore

Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm that invests in companies that aim to eliminate animals agriculture from the food system, raised USD 25 million for its Good Protein Fund I.

Singaporean VC Good Startup raises USD 25 million to invest in alternative protein developers

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Khamila Mulia

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

Venture Capital

iGlobe Partners has closed the iGlobe Platinum Fund III, raising USD 100 million for investments in game-changing innovations, targeted at the development of high-growth areas in smart cities, synthetic biology, and fintech.

iGlobe Partners closes USD 100 million in oversubscribed Platinum Fund III for transformational ventures in three cutting-edge sectors

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Dunzo’s hyperlocal delivery app connects Indian users to groceries, pharmacy items, and errands completed by local partners.

Dunzo

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

On-demand Services

Dunzo claimed to have a 350% surge in medicine orders on its app since January 2021. Google-backed Dunzo is one of the few companies that got approval from the director general of civil aviation last year to test beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) drones for deliveries.

Google-backed Dunzo to deliver medicines and COVID-19 vaccines via drones in India

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Avanish Tiwary

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

What happens when viewers join in real time? Explore live streaming platforms, audience interaction tools, and brand opportunities in instant video.

Live Streaming

Why do firms join forces? Investigate synergy goals, valuation methods, and negotiations driving corporate consolidation.

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

Short Video

RedSeer projects the Indian social commerce sector to become a USD 7 billion opportunity by 2025, contributing up to 5% to the total e-commerce market.

Indian adtech unicorn InMobi in talks to acquire social commerce startup Shop101

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

Blockchain

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

Several trial runs for the e-CNY have taken place over the past few months, each providing data about how consumers use the world’s first digital currency.

China runs USD 6 million e-currency experiment in Beijing

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Brady Ng

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia and Singapore-based tech major Sea Group are ranked first and third respectively among the top retail companies in Southeast Asia, according to the latest report by research firm Euromonitor International.

Tokopedia, Sea Group ranked among top retail firms in Southeast Asia by GMV in 2020

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Tech in Asia

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

Tencent is being sued for getting kids in China hooked on video games. On Tuesday, a children’s rights organization filed the lawsuit. At the case’s center is Honor of Kings, Tencent’s smash hit battle arena game that shares a format with Riot Games’ League of Legends.