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

Consumer Economy

China

Bloks is pushing into North America and Southeast Asia with low-cost licensed toy sets, but must prove it can build on more than borrowed IP.

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Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

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

Freshippo

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

Retail

Alibaba is leaning on Hema NB to anchor its discount retail push.

Hema NB doubles stores in six months to gain ground in China’s fragmented grocery market

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

Hardware

Hong Kong

Once China’s breakout 3D printing brand, Creality now faces stiffer competition and is expanding into scanners and laser engravers.

Creality gears up for Hong Kong IPO as it looks beyond 3D printing

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

News | KrASIA

Apple designs iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers, coupling sleek hardware with robust software ecosystems and service offerings.

Apple

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

Artificial Intelligence

Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology has been locked in a legal battle with Apple over the Siri voice assistant system since 2012.

Apple rebuffs USD 1.4 billion patent lawsuit filed by Chinese AI company

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South China Morning Post

Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

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

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

On-demand Services

The new financial products include investment and loan services.

Grab to expand financial services products to cover loans and investments

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Ursula Florene

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

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

Short Video

How can businesses drive positive change? Study policies, ESG strategies, and community initiatives fostering global social advancement.

Social Impact

How do visuals captivate global viewers? Dive into streaming services, production models, and evolving formats defining video engagement.

Video

Overly patriotic Chinese internet users curse the entrepreneur as a traitor to China.

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CHINA BRIEF | &#8220;ByteDance will need to accept misunderstandings for a while,&#8221; says Zhang Yiming

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

Electric Vehicles

The Hong Kong-listed company plans to re-brand to Evergrande Auto, in a bid to focus on EV manufacturing.

Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande steps up EV ambitions

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

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

Internet of Things

Investments are expected for sectors including construction materials, home appliance, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things.

CHINA BRIEF | China's top property developer raises USD 215 million to revamp traditional construction sector

CHINA BRIEF | China&#8217;s top property developer raises USD 215 million to revamp traditional construction sector

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Song Jingli

Taranis combines aerial imagery with AI to identify and analyze crop threats such as insect infestation, disease, weeds, and nutrient deficiencies.

Taranis eyes Asia expansion after raising USD 30 million from Vertex, others

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Tech in Asia

What drives digital education adoption? Analyze e-learning apps, AI-driven assessments, and tools enhancing student engagement.

Edtech

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Education

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

Live Streaming

the edtech firm's share price has more than doubled since it got its first short report in February.

Despite short attacks, GSX becomes China's second largest K-12 education company by market cap

Despite short attacks, GSX becomes China&#8217;s second largest K-12 education company by market cap

Y Combinator accelerates early-stage startups, mentoring founders and providing seed funding for transformative tech ideas.

Y Combinator

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

Enterprise Services

In the financial year 2020, the collective revenue of Indian SaaS companies reached USD 3.5 billion, with 75% of it coming from global sales.

Y Combinator backs Indian SaaS startup inFeedo to expand in Southeast Asia

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

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Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

Gojek's value for the national economy now equals to 1% of Indonesia's GDP.

News

Apple rebuffs USD 1.4 billion patent lawsuit filed by Chinese AI company

Grab to expand financial services products to cover loans and investments

CHINA BRIEF | “ByteDance will need to accept misunderstandings for a while,” says Zhang Yiming

Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande steps up EV ambitions

CHINA BRIEF | China’s top property developer raises USD 215 million to revamp traditional construction sector

Taranis eyes Asia expansion after raising USD 30 million from Vertex, others

Despite short attacks, GSX becomes China’s second largest K-12 education company by market cap

Y Combinator backs Indian SaaS startup inFeedo to expand in Southeast Asia

Gojek contributed USD 7.1 billions to Indonesia’s economy in 2019, study says

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