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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Beyond the record-setting fines, China’s tech firms are now a new kind of business entity.

China's new rules for VIEs leave tech companies in uncharted territory | KrASIA

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GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

With Grab in the spotlight for the largest ever SPAC merger that brands the company with a valuation close to USD 40 billion, KrASIA set out to answer that question. To find out what it is like to be part of a company that has reshaped not only the socioeconomic conditions in Southeast Asia but also the physical feel of the region’s urban nodes, I spoke with five people who have worked at Grab in its various phases, from shortly after its inception to the present, each pouring all their energies into tasks at different divisions to make Grab what it is today.

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever | KrASIA

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

Creative

The tech behind NFT art is changing visual culture in subtle ways.

Infinite estimates: The true value of NFT art is in the protocol behind it | KrASIA

Infinite estimates: The true value of NFT art is in the protocol behind it

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

Indonesia

With Lunar New Year celebrations—and heavy order volumes—coming up, the tech sector’s most vulnerable workers need vaccines to stay safe.

Jab me now: Tech’s gig workers are finally getting COVID shots, but at a slow pace | KrASIA

Jab me now: Tech’s gig workers are finally getting COVID shots, but at a slow pace

Jack Ma appears on stage as a hologram at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 9. Courtesy of WAIC via South China Morning Post.

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

China's AI industry must remain wary of dependence on its government contracts, and prove commercial viability in the private sector.

Brady Ng

China’s new rules for VIEs leave tech companies in uncharted territory

Grabbing the wheel: Inside the company that ran Uber off the road en route to the largest SPAC merger ever

Infinite estimates: The true value of NFT art is in the protocol behind it

Jab me now: Tech’s gig workers are finally getting COVID shots, but at a slow pace

‘A forest, some clouds, and all kinds of creatures’: The state of AI in China