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

Hardware

Once reliant on the US, Chinese brands are pivoting to new markets to blunt the impact of trade tensions.

US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps | KrASIA

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US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

KrASIA

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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Bukalapak, an Indonesian marketplace, empowers small merchants and connects consumers with diverse products online.

Bukalapak

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

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

Consumer Services

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

On-demand Services

Indonesia

The Indonesian firm booked its first quarterly profit since restructuring began.

Bukalapak returns to profit in Q1 after shedding physical sales | KrASIA

Bukalapak returns to profit in Q1 after shedding physical sales

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Sudo Lim

Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

GoTo, formed by Gojek and Tokopedia, merges ride-hailing, logistics, and retail into a single super-app ecosystem.

GoTo

Tokopedia, an Indonesian online marketplace, empowers entrepreneurs, brands, and SMEs to reach digital-savvy consumers.

Tokopedia

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

Fintech

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

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

Logistics

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

GoTo’s delivery, mobility, and fintech units all posted gains.

GoTo posts EBITDA profit in Q1 as Grab merger rumors simmer | KrASIA

GoTo posts EBITDA profit in Q1 as Grab merger rumors simmer

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

Deep Tech

Deep Tech | KrASIA Archives

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

Artificial Intelligence

How are digital assets protected? Analyze threat detection, encryption standards, and cybersecurity solutions safeguarding data.

Cybersecurity

Smart homes of the future will have interconnected, AI-powered devices customized to every user—at least if SimShine gets its way.

AI edge computing to disrupt the home camera market: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

AI edge computing to disrupt the home camera market: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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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Wency Chen

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

Robotics

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

Venture Capital

The robotics firm will use the new funds for product development, supply chain establishment, and commercialization.

CHINA BRIEF | Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics secures RMB 100 million in Series B+ round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics secures RMB 100 million in Series B+ round

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Sun Henan

The six-month pilot program is part of a broader effort to modernize China’s judicial system through the use of technology.

Shanghai judicial courts start to replace clerks with AI assistants | KrASIA

Shanghai judicial courts start to replace clerks with AI assistants

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SCMP

The firm invests in companies covering life sciences, technology, media, telecommunications, as well as consumer and financial services.

Vickers Venture Partners secures USD 200 million for sixth fund | KrASIA

Vickers Venture Partners secures USD 200 million for sixth fund

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Tech in Asia

The company will lead the fundraising effort for IDR 10 billion to produce the test kits and finance a Nusantics genome sequencing project.

East Ventures launches program to support R&D and production of 100,000 COVID-19 test kits in Indonesia | KrASIA

East Ventures launches program to support R&#038;D and production of 100,000 COVID-19 test kits in Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

Nusantics advances research in genomics and microbiomes and applies it to consumer consumption.

Deep tech startup Nusantics nabs seed funding from East Ventures | KrASIA

Deep tech startup Nusantics nabs seed funding from East Ventures

How does information move at light speed? Review 5G rollouts, fiber networks, and connectivity standards advancing global communication.

Telecommunications

All exhibitors that signed up with early payment for exhibit space in June will receive a refund in full, says organizer.

CES Asia the latest tech event to be called off amid global spread of coronavirus | KrASIA

CES Asia the latest tech event to be called off amid global spread of coronavirus

Opinion

This analyst note evaluates 10 current innovation trends in AI/ML, Blockchain, IoT, and other emerging technologies. And, assess the socio-economic impact, the evolution trajectory and the potential developments across the world for the next three years.

How deep tech will affect sectors and key markets in 2020-2022 | KrASIA

How deep tech will affect sectors and key markets in 2020-2022

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Jayanth Kolla

YellowBlocks links up entities working in emerging technologies in Vietnam and abroad. 

Kieu My Doan on building Vietnam's emerging tech ecosystem: Women in Tech | KrASIA

Kieu My Doan on building Vietnam&#8217;s emerging tech ecosystem: Women in Tech

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