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

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

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The brand is betting that home life’s next frontier lies just beyond the back door.

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

E-commerce

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

On-demand Services

With cheap phones and scripted content, they gamed the platform’s algorithm to dominate product search and sales.

These middle-aged men know Xiaohongshu better than anyone, and they’re all in Zhengzhou

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

Agent Universe’s latest venture ditches the leaderboard model in favor of community, credibility, and signal over noise in an era of information overload.

Could Watcha be “China’s Product Hunt” for AI products?

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

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

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

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

Live Streaming

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

Short Video

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

Video

Haokan, which is similar to Baidu's Xigua, had 110 million daily active users as of last November.

Head of ByteDance's Xigua app joins Baidu-owned short video platform

Head of ByteDance&#8217;s Xigua app joins Baidu-owned short video platform

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How do machines identify faces? Examine security measures, privacy debates, and tech frameworks driving facial recognition adoption.

Facial Recognition

As workplaces demand touchless access for health and safety reasons, AnyVision's products are coming to the fore.

Israeli facial recognition startup AnyVision raises USD 43 million

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ByteDance has long been a proponent of content recommendation systems, and uses it on other products, such as the popular news aggregator Jinri Toutiao.

Why the secret AI sauce behind TikTok is such a vital ingredient in luring potential buyers

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JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

The firm just received USD 20 million investment in a Series A+ round led by Source Code Capital.

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China's Startups

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

The company's products help doctors diseases quicker through AI-enabled image readings.

CHINA BRIEF | Medtech software maker Shukun raises USD 29 million

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

Alibaba-backed Best is trying to balance fast growth with dreams of profitability.

Logistics firm Best applies Chinese growth model to take over Southeast Asia

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What medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

The company offers tools that may make the difference between swift recovery and permanent physical damage in people who suffer strokes.

Israel's Viz.ai uses AI and deep learning to detect source of strokes in seconds

Israel&#8217;s Viz.ai uses AI and deep learning to detect source of strokes in seconds

AISpeech counts nearly 8,000 clients, including smartphone maker Xiaomi, logistics company SF, and Alibaba.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba-backed AISpeech closes pre-IPO round

Kuaishou, best known for its short video platform, drives user-generated content, influencer marketing, and community engagement through shareable clips.

Kuaishou

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

Beijing-based Huohua Siwei specializes in math, science and critical thinking training for children aged three to 12.

CHINA BRIEF | Edtech startup Huohua Siwei announces USD 150 million financing round led by KKR

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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Head of ByteDance’s Xigua app joins Baidu-owned short video platform

Israeli facial recognition startup AnyVision raises USD 43 million

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CHINA BRIEF | Medtech software maker Shukun raises USD 29 million

Logistics firm Best applies Chinese growth model to take over Southeast Asia

Israel’s Viz.ai uses AI and deep learning to detect source of strokes in seconds

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