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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.

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After cars and TVs, Chinese brands are targeting the region’s affluent consumers with jewelry, watches, and wine.

Southeast Asia is luxury testbed for China's big new export drive

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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.

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

AI Infrastructure

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

Artificial Intelligence

How do firms boost efficiency? Assess cloud platforms, consulting solutions, and business intelligence tools powering corporate operations.

Cloud Solutions

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

Deep Tech

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

Enterprise Services

Foundation and Large Models

Faster cloud growth is being accompanied by mounting pressure on earnings and cash flow from AI infrastructure spending.

Alibaba’s cloud growth comes with a rising AI bill

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Xiaomi crafts affordable smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices, appealing to users who seek innovation, quality, and budget-friendly tech.

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

What fits the world in your pocket? Track device innovation, OS ecosystems, and connectivity shaping smartphone usage.

Smartphones

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

Transportation

The company’s handset business lost ground globally and in China, while its newer businesses grew to nearly a quarter of group revenue.

Xiaomi’s smartphone slump deepens as EVs shoulder more of the load

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories, alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.

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Israeli visual search startup Style raises USD 30 million

Syte facilitates what the company calls augmented site search, an enhanced text search solution that deciphers human context and intent.

Israeli visual search startup Syte raises USD 30 million for product discovery platform

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NoCamels

Nio, a Chinese electric car maker, specializes in high-performance EVs, battery-swapping solutions, and autonomous driving technologies.

Tesla’s electric cars, battery storage systems, and solar energy solutions shape sustainable transportation and power grids.

Tesla

Xpeng Motors builds intelligent EVs equipped with advanced infotainment systems, autonomous features, and sleek electric mobility designs.

Xpeng

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

Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla increased Model 3 production capacity at its Shanghai Gigafactory to 250,000 units a year and it is building a new factory for its Model Y.

Tesla reports another profitable quarter with an eye on China

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India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

How do virtual worlds expand reality? Discover AR/VR tools, content creation, and platforms layering digital information onto everyday life.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

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

Short Video

India is Snapchat’s largest market outside the US, with about 33.8 million users.

Snapchat to ramp up investments in India

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Moulishree Srivastava

Meituan, China’s all-in-one local services platform, covers food delivery, travel bookings, and lifestyle deals, simplifying daily consumer choices.

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

On-demand Services

The sale will generate nearly USD 2 billion in net proceeds, half of the USD 4 billion the company raised in its IPO in September 2018.

Meituan to raise USD 2 billion in debt, partly for "refinancing"

Meituan to raise USD 2 billion in debt, partly for &#8220;refinancing&#8221;

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Song Jingli

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

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

Fintech

Over 800 global speakers will join this year's Fintech Festival, including heads of state, financial and tech leaders, policy makers, leading startups, and multilateral agencies.

The Singapore Fintech Festival is back in December—in a hybrid format

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Vulcan Post

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

Apple

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

E-commerce

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

Hardware

Before the livestreaming event was announced, Baidu’s shopping channel, which launched quietly in the last month, only offered a limited range of products.

China Unicom, Baidu offer iPhone 12 on newly launched shopping channel

Ant Group's Q1-Q3 gorss profit year-on-year increase: 74%

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

Ant Group

Opinion

Alibaba is subscribing for a fifth of the available Ant shares in the IPO, that could raise as much as USD 35 billion.

KEY STAT | Ant Group posts 74% year-on-year profit increase ahead of mega IPO

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Julianna Wu

Google dominates online search, digital ads, and cloud solutions, powering discovery, analytics, and smartphone operating systems.

Google

The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

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

Entertainment

Regulators step up oversight of tech giants.

Google faces antitrust scrutiny in Asia after US lawsuit

Intel's Ignite growth accelerator selects 10 new startups

Intel Ignite selects Israeli seed-stage startups for its second cohort in March 2020. Courtesy of Intel Ignite via NoCamels.

60 judges decided which of the 230 applicants made the cut.