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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

China

Nooka turns books into conversational podcasts, creating a new form of content where storytelling starts with dialogue.

What happens when AI rewrites Kant, and you get to argue with it?

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AI Now! is a global AI community of Chinese developers, professionals, and founders.

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

Consumer Economy

Once awash in hype and capital, players like Barley are returning to medical fundamentals to rebuild trust and value.

As China’s hair transplant boom fades, what comes next?

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

Retail

Fashion labels, coffee chains, and lifestyle startups are reimagining what it means to belong in a historic neighborhood that still feels lived in.

Adidas lands on Anfu Road, joining the retail mix shaping Shanghai’s storied street

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

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Top-tier AI chip companies are sought after, while mediocre startups will find difficulty in financing

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

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

Hardware

Barefoot Networks' flagship product is one of the fastest networking chips in the world.

Intel to acquire Alibaba- and Tencent-backed switch chip maker

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China Literature

The board thinks its stock is undervalued.

Tencent-backed China Literature announces 10% share buyback plan

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

Gaming

Game for Peace

PUBG mobile

The company has found success in transitioning players from PUBG Mobile.

Tencent's Game for Peace rakes in USD 70 million in May

Tencent&#8217;s Game for Peace rakes in USD 70 million in May

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

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Wechat

Positive user feedback can help mini app developers reach wider audiences.

WeChat is testing user ratings for Mini Programs

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Lao Bei

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

Transportation

Internet of Vehicles

It's a new development in Tencent's Internet of Vehicles program.

Tencent is integrating WeChat into new cars this year

Mafengwo

Mafengwo also sells travel-related merchandise on its platform, and hosts editorial content geared toward China's domestic and outbound travelers.

Chinese online travel agency Mafengwo raises USD 250 million, with Tencent leading the investment

mini-programs

As with WeChat, Tencent's QQ will integrate mini-programs

As with WeChat, Tencent&#8217;s QQ will integrate mini-programs

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

Enterprise Services

Alibaba's Dingtalk had five million corporate users by September 2017.

Tencent says WeChat Work now has 17,000 third-party SaaS vendors

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

Venture Capital

Prowler.io

Prowler.io, an AI company from Cambridge, England has raised USD 24 million (RMB 166 million)  in funding at a USD 100 million (RMB 691 million)