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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

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

Deep Tech

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

Entertainment

The chatbot is providing real-time interpretation for two exhibitions featuring works from the Louvre and Picasso.

ByteDance’s Doubao turns from chatbot to docent at Shanghai art museum

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Cheng Zi is based in China, covering technology- and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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Cheng Zi

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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

A focus on partnerships, chip flexibility, and execution has kept the company in contention.

How QCraft stayed in the assisted driving race as rivals fell away

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

Consumer Economy

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

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

Travel

Electrification and a new generation of users are reshaping a century-old industry once built for retirees.

Smart RVs are having a moment, and Squirrel Power wants to set the rules

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

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Southeast Asia

China's internet giants continue to expand their operations in Singapore at a breathtaking pace. Baidu-backed video streaming service iQiyi, which made the city its international headquarter in December, on Wednesday announced that it will set up a talent management agency together with local media company GHY Culture & Media.

China's tech titans turn Singapore into their new overseas hub

China&#8217;s tech titans turn Singapore into their new overseas hub

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Stella Soon

Pinduoduo revolutionizes e-commerce with social group buying, connecting budget-conscious shoppers to discounts on a broad range of products.

Pinduoduo

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

E-commerce

China's largest agricultural platform enables more than 12 million farmers to sell products to its more than 788 million active buyers.

Pinduoduo has more buyers than Alibaba as company pushes ahead with agricultural focus

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AJ Cortese

Luckin Coffee provides app-based ordering, convenient pickup, and a broad beverage menu, reshaping China’s coffee consumption patterns.

Luckin Coffee

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

Food Delivery

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

On-demand Services

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

Retail

Xiamen-headquartered beverage chain Luckin Coffee disclosed on Tuesday that it has entered into a debt restructuring agreement with creditors holding about 59% of the USD 460 million convertible senior notes due 2025, who can claim back between 91% and 96% of their money.

Luckin Coffee to restructure debt, raise USD 250 million in equity financing

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Song Jingli

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

India

Mumbai-headquartered direct-to-consumer (D2C) startup OZiva said Wednesday it has raised USD 12 million in a Series B round led by Eight Roads Ventures, with participation from F-Prime Capital and existing investor Matrix Partners India.The three-year-old startup provides plant-based nutrition products made of herbs, fruits, and berries and markets them for different groups, from male, female, to kids. It claims its products—powders that can be made into juices and shakes—have been made by mixing the learnings of modern science with the benefits of ayurvedic herbs.

Eight Roads Ventures leads a USD 12 million round in India's D2C brand

Eight Roads Ventures leads a USD 12 million round in India&#8217;s D2C brand

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Avanish Tiwary

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

How do we store tomorrow’s power? Evaluate battery R&amp;D, manufacturing progress, and recycling strategies fueling energy independence.

Batteries

Indonesia

Indonesia plans to roll out new regulations that offers tax breaks for hybrid EVs, in the latest effort to promote the development of electric vehicles in the country. In a meeting with Parliament on Monday, Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani said that investors who build electric cars in Indonesia feel that the current framework is unfair as there is no difference in the tax rates between hybrid and fully electric cars.

Indonesia draws up new EV tax scheme guided by ambition to boost industry

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Khamila Mulia

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

Investment

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

Logistics

What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

Private Equity

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

Venture Capital

Shanghai-based startup Duckbill has raised USD 50 million in a new financing round led by Temasek and joined by Pavilion Capital, as well as existing investors such as Future Capital and Shunwei Capital, the company told KrASIA on Wednesday.

Chinese logistics startup Duckbill scores USD 50 million from Temasek, others

Indonesian ride-hailing firm Gojek has experienced significant growth in the number of partners and users since its launch in Singapore at the end of 2018. This year, the decacorn wants to continue building on that.

In Singapore, Gojek plans for more driver partners and new features this year

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DailySocial

The company provides IP management software for global brands, universities, and research institutes. Clients typically need to look through a lot of information such as patents and legal documents, collecting research and journals from different formats. They might need to hire a consulting firm to make sense of all of the data. PatSnap aggregates this information globally, co-founder Guan Dian told KrASIA.

SoftBank and Tencent invest USD 300 million into Singaporean IP management software

The Middle East’s growing tech ecosystem harnesses the enterprising spirit of innovators from its diverse cultural markets.

Middle East

Amman-based early-stage VC Propeller has concluded the first close of its second fund, Propeller Ventures II. The fund has a target size of USD 15 million and aims to achieve the final close next year. Investors in the fund include Jordan’s Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF), Capital Bank of Jordan, Beyond Capital, and multiple individuals including a former Careem executive.

Jordan’s Propeller hits first close for new USD 15 million fund

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