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What happens when banking goes virtual? Study no-branch platforms, biometric authentication, and seamless financial services.

Digital Banks

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

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

Lending

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

Payments

Singapore

Southeast Asia

Lenders backed by Grab, Sea, and StanChart hang on as legacy rivals DBS, UOB, and OCBC boom.

Profits, and customers, prove elusive for Singapore's digital banks

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Profits, and customers, prove elusive for Singapore&#8217;s digital banks

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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Nikkei Asia

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

China

Chinese food chains are moving beyond diaspora enclaves to attract mainstream international diners.

Hotpot, malatang, bubble tea: Chinese dining chains expand abroad to win over global palates

I'm Xiaochun with 36Kr Global [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Xiaochun Zhao

The Chinese startup reckons generative AI will eventually be processed directly on devices, not just in data centers.

Beyond the cloud, Houmo.AI sees AI compute shifting to the edge

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

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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.

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

Ant Group

The firm helps established health insurance companies take their businesses online.

CHINA BRIEF | Zhongan-and-Sequoia-backed Nuanwa Technology closes USD 14 million Series A round

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Song Jingli

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

E-commerce

The data online restoration will be completed by 9 am on March 3.

CHINA BRIEF | Weimob to refund up to USD 21.5 million to merchants

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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NetEase, a Chinese Internet services firm, offers online gaming, music streaming, and e-commerce platforms, engaging millions of digital users.

NetEase

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

Gaming

Visual Stories

China's second-biggest game publisher's gaming revenue excesses RMB 10 billion for the 9th quarter straight.

KEY STAT | NetEase 2019 revenue reaches USD 8.5 billion on gaming growth

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Julianna Wu

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

Artificial Intelligence

The startup, which focuses on industrial inspection and high-def video, has already completed pre-Series A financing.

CHINA BRIEF | Jia Jiaya, CUHK professor and former Tencent exec, launches AI company

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Sun Henan

Murder mysteries and draw-and-guess games are popular online during the Covid-19 epidemic as social game downloads surge.

Online party games are helping cure the coronavirus lockdown blues in China

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

Apple

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

Apple and TikTok maker ByteDance are asking for developers to show game licenses as China tightens its grip on video game publishing.

Why Apple’s new rules for games in China could spell trouble for indies

WeChat, Tencent’s superapp, combines messaging, social media, mobile payments, and mini-programs, streamlining daily tasks for over a billion users.

WeChat

The employee who allegedly sabotaged the company's data has been detained by the police.

Sabotage against China's largest WeChat SaaS provider impacts millions of merchants

Sabotage against China&#8217;s largest WeChat SaaS provider impacts millions of merchants

Chinese firms donate money in coronavirus fight

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

Social Impact

Despite the economic pain, businesses embraced a range of measures to overcome the epidemic crisis.

Major Chinese firms donate USD 800 million during coronavirus outbreak

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Opinion

“A person’s world is determined by the breadth and quality of information they can obtain.”

My visit to WeChat: Allen Zhang on how information flows are shaping our lives (Part 1 of 2)

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