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

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From learning tools to ad engines, teams prototyped AI applications aimed at solving practical challenges across industries.

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

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

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With a localized strategy and China-tested tech, Yup is expanding credit access across emerging markets in the region.

Can Yup become Southeast Asia’s answer to Nubank?

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 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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The UK grocer is testing a hybrid “Iceland Lab” concept to see if its icy staples can stand out in a hotly competitive market.

Can Iceland crack China’s frozen food market?

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

Grab

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

Transportation

Grab said its fares are compliant with regulations in the Philippines but respects the decision.

Grab hit with new fine in the Philippines for overcharging customers

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Thu Huong Le

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

Grab's electric cars and motorbikes will start operating in Jakarta in January 2020.

Grab Indonesia introduces its first electric vehicle fleet

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

Gojek

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

Food 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

Food and financial services now make up more than 50% of Grab’s gross merchandise volume, according to Lim Kell Jay, the regional head of GrabFood.

As Grab expands to food and finance, its transport business is no longer driving most of its growth

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South China Morning Post

Grab aims to make GrabPay a "truly ASEAN wallet."

Grab launches first GrabPay Card in Singapore to further push financial services

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

Logistics

64-year-old Nanik Soelistiawati created her delicious snacks from leftover bananas.

The woman behind Indonesia’s famous banana fritters rose from the Gojek-Grab battle: People of the Digital Economy

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Cindy Silviana

Indonesian unicorn Gojek announced it is expanding its transport offering in Singapore through a partnership with local taxi company Trans-Cab.

Gojek expands Singapore fleet with Trans-Cab partnership

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Tech in Asia

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

More than 40 companies set to apply for five slots by Dec. 31.

Tech-savvy upstarts race for Singapore digital banking licenses

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Nikkei Asia

Consumers in Singapore and the Philippines will be able to book taxis in Japan and the Middle East via Grab app.

Grab officially announces cab-hailing tie-up in Japan, Middle East

The company will restrict the operations of its e-scooter service GrabWheel and announced fines on users who violate rules.