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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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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

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

Smartphones

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

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

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Tencent Games was the publisher and distributor responsible to make PUBG Mobile available in other countries including India.

PUBG cuts ties with Tencent Games

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

TikTok hosts short-form videos spanning entertainment, education, and branded content, capturing global audiences and driving cultural trends.

TikTok

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

Short Video

TikTok’s recommendation algorithm is its secret sauce and this is what its prospective buyers are after.

New regulations might create hurdles for TikTok's sale in its two biggest markets

New regulations might create hurdles for TikTok&#8217;s sale in its two biggest markets

Byju’s, a former edtech unicorn, merges video lessons, quizzes, and personalized learning paths to help students excel academically.

Byju's

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

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

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Overall, Byju's has raised more than USD 2.3 billion from global high-profile investors.

Silicon Valley-based Silver Lake leads USD 500 million round in edtech decacorn Byju's

Silicon Valley-based Silver Lake leads USD 500 million round in edtech decacorn Byju&#8217;s

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Oppo, a Chinese smartphone producer, emphasizes advanced camera features, sleek designs, and immersive audiovisual experiences.

Oppo

Chinese smartphone makers took a larger share of the local market in Q2 2020 than ever before.

Vivo beats Samsung to become top-selling phone brand in Indonesia

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Net worth of Zhang Shenshen, CEO of Nongfu Spring, USD 58 billion

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

Social Impact

Zhong Shanshan, CEO of Nongfu Spring, beats his technology counterparts Jack Ma and Pony Ma on net worth.

KEY STAT | CEO of beverage company topples Alibaba and Tencent founders to become the richest man in China

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Its products assist in AI diagnosis, managing patient medical records, and for insurance payment solutions.

Clinical data firm Linkdoc raises USD 102 million in D+ round

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Quest Ventures will invest at least USD 60,250 in up to 12 companies from ScaleUp Malaysia's second cohort. 

Quest Ventures partners with ScaleUp Malaysia to power local startups

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Yin Lin Tan

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

Medtech

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

Robotics

Jianjia has developed Arthrobot, a robot which can position, grind, and install prostheses, to aid doctors during joint replacement surgeries.

Baidu-backed surgical robot maker Jianjia closes USD 14.6 million Series B

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Song Jingli

The top performing startup will receive up to SGD 150,000 (USD 109,908) after completion of the program.

Accelerating Asia reveals the eight startups from its third cohort

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