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

Grab

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

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

Consumer Services

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

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

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

On-demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Strong performances across mobility, deliveries, and financial services drove Grab’s better-than-expected first-quarter results.

Grab raises EBITDA outlook as Q1 revenue and user growth beat expectations | KrASIA

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Grab raises EBITDA outlook as Q1 revenue and user growth beat expectations

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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Sudo Lim

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

Deep Tech

What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

Semiconductors

The two companies unveiled processors designed to boost real-time performance, enhance safety, and power more centralized automotive systems.

Axera and Black Sesame roll out chips built for smarter, safer vehicles | KrASIA

Axera and Black Sesame roll out chips built for smarter, safer vehicles

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

Hardware

Once reliant on the US, Chinese brands are pivoting to new markets to blunt the impact of trade tensions.

US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps | KrASIA

US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps

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

Didi

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

Artificial Intelligence

Smart Cities

The platform, called "Wild Geese", is a tool for Didi to monetize its technological expertise

Didi Chuxing opens its smart mobility platform to other companies | KrASIA

Didi Chuxing opens its smart mobility platform to other companies

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Ant Group, a fintech powerhouse, offers digital payments, wealth management tools, and micro loans, enabling borderless, mobile-first financial services.

Ant Group

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

ByteDance

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

Venture Capital

Startups

unicorns

Sequoia Capital is the most successful unicorn breeder

China now has 202 unicorns, says report | KrASIA

China now has 202 unicorns, says report

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Luna Lin

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Chile

Colombia

Latin America

Uber

The move brings Didi increasingly in contention with Uber.

Didi enters Colombia and Chile as it steps up Latin American expansion | KrASIA

Didi enters Colombia and Chile as it steps up Latin American expansion

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Softbank

The Chinese firm is following tourists to Japan.

Didi expands taxi-hailing service in Japan | KrASIA

Didi expands taxi-hailing service in Japan

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

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

E-commerce

Tencent

Among the most popular workplaces in China are also EV makes Nio and Tesla

LinkedIn data shows Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance are China's top 3 companies to work for in 2019 | KrASIA

LinkedIn data shows Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance are China&#8217;s top 3 companies to work for in 2019

Didi had over 200,000 EVs registered on its platform in January 2017.

Leading EV charging operators disconnect themselves from Didi Chuxing | KrASIA

Leading EV charging operators disconnect themselves from Didi Chuxing

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

Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Driving

The competition to develop driverless cars is fast and furious.

Didi sets up autonomous driving subsidiary | KrASIA

Didi sets up autonomous driving subsidiary

Didi, China's largest ride-hailing company is about to lay off thousands of employees but is apparently determined not to end things on a bitter note.

Firing thousands, Didi is said to be doling out sweeter-than-expected compensation deals | KrASIA

Firing thousands, Didi is said to be doling out sweeter-than-expected compensation deals

And it's laying off a quarter of its staff.