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China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

China

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

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

Consumer Economy

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

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

Logistics

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

On-demand Services

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

It is getting more profit out of retail, even as quick commerce spending tests the limits of that improvement.

JD.com beats quarterly expectations, but food delivery keeps margins under pressure

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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.

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Deep Tech

Heavier spending has wiped the tech giant’s profit and pushed cash flow negative, even as AI demand continues to outstrip supply.

Alibaba’s AI cloud gains ask investors to look past profit decline

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

Games and advertising still fund the company’s next act, but investors are asking when AI will become more than a spending line.

Tencent’s AI push gets harder to price after muted first quarter

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How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

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

Gaming

The Chinese tech giant is reportedly allowing studios to tap its expertise while retaining creative independence.

Tencent harnesses M&A, AI to fast-track video game development

Tencent harnesses M&#038;A, AI to fast-track video game development

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Insta360

The Wave microphone merges TEALab’s algorithms with Insta360’s design expertise to address audio challenges.

Insta360 and Tencent turn two decades of audio R&D into commercial sound intelligence

Insta360 and Tencent turn two decades of audio R&#038;D into commercial sound intelligence

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Unlike Alibaba, Tencent is scaling back capital outlays even as it reports strong earnings.

Tencent tempers AI spending as profits rise for a twelfth straight quarter

The Honor of Kings developer aims to rely less on long-running homegrown hits.

Tencent's game arm looks to its own IP for more growth beyond China

Tencent&#8217;s game arm looks to its own IP for more growth beyond China

Embodied Intelligence

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

Robotics

Through JoyInside and Tairos, both firms are angling to control the software layer of embodied intelligence.

JD and Tencent want to power robots, not build them, at least for now

Foundation and Large Models

The tech giant signals a deeper push into full-stack AI with its latest round of announcements.

Tencent ups its AI game with a flurry of releases at WAIC 2025

What sets the world’s soundtrack? Follow streaming royalties, label strategies, and genre shifts guiding the global music industry’s rhythm.

Music

After four aborted IPO attempts and a brief return to profitability, Ximalaya is being absorbed by Tencent.

Ximalaya’s swan song plays out in a USD 2.9 billion Tencent buyout

New model releases and a revamped AI agent development platform highlight Tencent’s push toward practical, enterprise-focused AI applications.

Tencent doubles down on agentic AI with latest Hunyuan updates

AI Infrastructure

Tencent's first-quarter results soared past expectations, thanks to AI-enhanced ads and games.