A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
How Asian gamers actually spend their time and money — by market. Mobile MOBAs in SEA, mobile gacha in Japan, premium PC and console in Korea, and a regulated mainland Chinese market that still sets the pace globally.
A tour through the benchmarks that actually measure LLM performance in Asian languages — Nejumi, KMMLU, BnMMLU, SEA-HELM — and what they tell us about the frontier vs domestic gap.
A working tracker of where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the major Chinese LLMs are accessible across fifteen Asian markets. Last updated April 2026.
Dana has done something none of its Indonesian competitors have managed: it’s built a user base approaching 200 million — roughly 70% of Indonesia’s population — without being embedded inside … Read more
OVO is one of Indonesia’s four dominant e-wallets — alongside GoPay, Dana, and ShopeePay — serving over 110 million registered users across 300 cities. It’s also, since October 2021, a … Read more
How Creator Economies Monetize in Asia: A $26 Billion Machine With Very Different Rules The creator economy in Asia isn’t a smaller version of the Western one. It’s a structurally … Read more
GCash isn’t just the Philippines‘ most popular e-wallet — it’s become the financial infrastructure for a country where 66% of adults still lacked a bank account as recently as 2019. … Read more
Asia-Pacific’s digital wallets processed $36.8 trillion in spending in 2024 (Juniper Research), and the fight for dominance is getting nastier. GCash commands 89% of the Philippines’ mobile wallet market with … Read more
ZaloPay isn’t trying to be Vietnam’s everything app. It’s trying to be the payments layer inside the app that already is — Zalo, the messaging platform used by 98% of … Read more