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

Consumer Economy

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

Retail

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Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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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

Alipay, a fintech platform by Ant Group, offers mobile payments, financial services, and e-commerce integrations, supporting transactions globally.

Alipay

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

Ant Group

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Deep Tech

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

Fintech

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

China’s largest payment platforms are competing to move beyond the final step in a transaction and become the starting point for services.

Alipay wants more than a supporting role in the AI era

Aito

BYD, a Chinese EV maker, produces electric cars, buses, and batteries, accelerating adoption of sustainable transportation worldwide.

GAC Group, a Chinese state-owned automaker, is one of China's largest car manufacturers, producing vehicles under its own brands and joint ventures.

GAC Group

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

Seres

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

Electric 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

Losses at EV makers like BAIC, Seres, and GAC contrast with a brighter picture upstream.

China's automakers squeezed as materials suppliers rake in profits

China&#8217;s automakers squeezed as materials suppliers rake in profits

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Nikkei Asia

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

Grab

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Southeast Asia

Amazon leads e-commerce, streaming (Prime Video), and AWS cloud infrastructure, redefining retail, media, and data services.

Amazon

Bukalapak, an Indonesian marketplace, empowers small merchants and connects consumers with diverse products online.

Bukalapak

Flipkart, a prominent Indian e-commerce marketplace, hosts electronics, fashion, and home goods with fast shipping and easy returns.

Flipkart

PhonePe, a digital wallet in India, enables UPI payments, money transfers, and merchant transactions through a user-friendly app.

PhonePe

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

E-commerce

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

Grocery Delivery

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

Small neighborhood stores are integral part of the economy of both developing nations, and tech firms are stepping in to provide additional services.

The race to digitize neighborhood stores in India and Indonesia (Part 1 of 2)

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Avanish Tiwary and Khamila Mulia

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

Gojek

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

Food Delivery

cloud kitchen

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Delivery

ghost kitchen

shared kitchen

Delivery firms and ride-hailing startups are major players in Southeast Asia’s cloud kitchen market.

Singapore's food delivery and cloud kitchen market remains dynamic, competition watchdog says

Singapore&#8217;s food delivery and cloud kitchen market remains dynamic, competition watchdog says

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Yin Lin Tan

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

For Gojek, Grab and more, quest for profit becomes struggle for survival.

Coronavirus stalks Southeast Asia's once-thriving unicorns

Coronavirus stalks Southeast Asia&#8217;s once-thriving unicorns

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

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

Ride-hailing

Since taking over Uber's business, Grab has to seek permission on pricing from Singapore's consumer watchdog.

Grab applies for platform fee in Singapore, plans to improve safety measures

LinkAja could be the key to dominate the digital payments sector in Indonesia.

Gojek and Grab compete for investment in Indonesia's LinkAja

Gojek and Grab compete for investment in Indonesia&#8217;s LinkAja

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Cindy Silviana

How are digital assets protected? Analyze threat detection, encryption standards, and cybersecurity solutions safeguarding data.

Cybersecurity

For now, the perpetrators' identities remain a mystery.

'This is just a warning from me': How Grab and Gojek are utilized to intimidate activists in Indonesia

&#8216;This is just a warning from me&#8217;: How Grab and Gojek are utilized to intimidate activists in Indonesia

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

Its services will soon be available in five SEA countries.

Alibaba-backed courier Best makes further inroads in Southeast Asia as pandemic boosts delivery orders

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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Tokopedia, an Indonesian online marketplace, empowers entrepreneurs, brands, and SMEs to reach digital-savvy consumers.

Tokopedia

Visual Stories

Following the speedy spread of the coronavirus, tech companies in the country are modifying their services to fit their users' new routines.

COVID-19 in Indonesia: How tech companies are adapting in a time of crisis

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Grab

The race to digitize neighborhood stores in India and Indonesia (Part 1 of 2)

Singapore’s food delivery and cloud kitchen market remains dynamic, competition watchdog says

Grab to expand financial services products to cover loans and investments

Coronavirus stalks Southeast Asia’s once-thriving unicorns

Grab applies for platform fee in Singapore, plans to improve safety measures

Gojek and Grab compete for investment in Indonesia’s LinkAja

‘This is just a warning from me’: How Grab and Gojek are utilized to intimidate activists in Indonesia

Alibaba-backed courier Best makes further inroads in Southeast Asia as pandemic boosts delivery orders

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