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Alibaba reshuffles e-commerce businesses as a way to deal with competition

Alibaba risks dominance in China as shoppers evolve

The APAC region has seen a massive jump in downloads of fintech apps, showing strong support for fintech to grow in the region. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)

Asia Pacific shows explosive growth in demand for fintech apps

The decentralized identity approach by the Korean government promises to transform the lives of citizens, especially during the pandemic period. (Photo of the Seoul city skyline by Ed JONES / AFP)

South Korea’s brilliant decentralized approach to citizen identity management

HarmyOS: Asia gets the first taste of Huawei’s in-house operating system

Huawei’s homegrown smartphone OS designed for the era of IoT

Huawei is finally readying to launch its HarmonyOS for smartphones – its first big push into software since getting shut out of its hardware businesses

Huawei pushes into software with new smartphone OS

For India's younger generation, vaccination requires online registration – exposing a glaring digital divide with its rural population.

Race for jabs in India’s vaccination drive exposes digital divide

softpos Fintech startup Soepay's SoftPOS turns any NFC-based Android smartphone into a portable card payments terminal – changing the way Hong Kong small businesses will accept contactless payments

Software-only contactless payments arrive for HK SMEs

Is the world too dependent on Asia’s semiconductor industry?

Is the world too dependent on Asia’s semiconductor industry?

5G can help provide high quality livestreaming in the Philippines

A glimpse at 5G entertainment in the Philippines

5G connectivity and digital transformation gains like those being seen in South Korea will come to rest of Asia, according to mobility expert.

5G in Asia – rollout plans won’t be affected by COVID-19 says GSMA