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Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

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

On-demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Strong performances across mobility, deliveries, and financial services drove Grab’s better-than-expected first-quarter results.

Grab raises EBITDA outlook as Q1 revenue and user growth beat expectations | KrASIA

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Grab raises EBITDA outlook as Q1 revenue and user growth beat expectations

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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Sudo Lim

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

Deep Tech

What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

Semiconductors

The two companies unveiled processors designed to boost real-time performance, enhance safety, and power more centralized automotive systems.

Axera and Black Sesame roll out chips built for smarter, safer vehicles | KrASIA

Axera and Black Sesame roll out chips built for smarter, safer vehicles

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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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

US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps

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

ByteDance

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China’s most valuable independent startup Toutiao was courted by Alibaba amid growing Tencent-Toutiao feud

The company was on a shopping spree last year, acquiring Musical.ly, News Republic and Flipgram.

China’s Toutiao to Further Beef up Global Presence in 2018 | KrASIA

China’s Toutiao to Further Beef up Global Presence in 2018

I'm Xiaochun with 36Kr Global [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Xiaochun Zhao

Surviving on Regulatory Shocks: Vloggers Seeking New Ways to Maintain Profits

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

Entertainment

Rises and falls of on-live platforms, as well as the fan economy behind Chinese vloggers.

Surviving on Regulatory Shocks: Vloggers Seeking New Ways to Maintain Profits | KrASIA

Chauncey Jung works with a unicorn Internet firm based out of Beijing. His professional experience pays him off an insider perspective over China’s internet industry. Completed his bachelor and master education in Canada, Chauncey is obsessed with trending technologies and economic developments across Asia. He can be reached at chaunceyzhang@foxmail.com.

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China’s video streaming scene is dominated by three major platforms namely Alibaba-acquired Youku, Tencent’s Tencent Video and Baidu-backed iQiyi.

Toutiao Reportedly to Produce Drama and Variety Show, Adding Youku and iQiyi to Competitors List | KrASIA

Toutiao Reportedly to Produce Drama and Variety Show, Adding Youku and iQiyi to Competitors List

Faceu is China’s #3 beauty camera app by market penetration rate.

Deals | Toutiao Acquired AR-Based Selfie App Faceu to Keep Diversifying | KrASIA

Deals | Toutiao Acquired AR-Based Selfie App Faceu to Keep Diversifying

Through the licensing deal, Toutiao is to introduce BuzzFeed content to its hundreds of millions of users.

Toutiao Strikes Licensing Deal with BuzzFeed, Paving Its Way for Global Expansion | KrASIA

Toutiao Strikes Licensing Deal with BuzzFeed, Paving Its Way for Global Expansion

Emerging technologies, powered by big data, algorithms, and AI, are increasingly taking over human editors and reshaping the media industry in a way unseen before. In this article, we tell stories happened in the new era of media we all live in.

Collapse or Reborn? The Media Industry in the Age of AI (Part 4) | KrASIA

Collapse or Reborn? The Media Industry in the Age of AI (Part 4)

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Plus, Bitcoin started the year by tumbling. Salarium teamed up with Unionbank of the Philippines to develop the blockchain wallet.

Kr-Asia Daily: Jinri Toutiao Shut Down Social News Channel | KrASIA

Kr-Asia Daily: Jinri Toutiao Shut Down Social News Channel

Believe it or not, the thing in your pocket has just turned into a “dancing machine”. To deliver a better dancing experience, Douyin incorporates the “body keypoints detection” technology developed by Toutiao AI Lab.

Dance Battle Whenever & Wherever You Want, Short Video App Douyin Launches New Feature Powered by Toutiao | KrASIA

Dance Battle Whenever &#038; Wherever You Want, Short Video App Douyin Launches New Feature Powered by Toutiao

Plus, Alibaba is said to invest about $200 million in Indian online grocer Bigbasket.