South Korea is the most intensely connected country on earth. With 50.4 million internet users representing 97.4% of the population, 5G download speeds averaging 1,064 Mbps on SK Telecom’s network, … Read more
Vietnam’s digital economy reached an estimated $39 billion in gross merchandise value in 2025, growing at roughly 19% year-on-year and cementing the country’s position as Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing digital market … Read more
India’s digital economy was about $402 billion (INR 31.64 lakh crore) in FY2022-23, or 11.74% of national income, according to MeitY (January 2025), which projects about one-fifth of national income … Read more
China’s digital economy reached 59.2 trillion yuan (~$8.2 trillion)[1] in 2024, accounting for 43.8% of GDP (CAICT, March 2026)[1] — making it the world’s largest digital economy by any reasonable … Read more
The Asia-Pacific AI market hit USD 102 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach USD 816 billion by 2032. East Asian institutions hold 82.4% of all global AI patents. Here are the 10 key findings from the AI Ecosystem Across Asia 2026 report.
Douyin generated USD 39.2 billion in ad revenue in 2024, making it China’s largest ad platform. ByteDance commands 25.9% of China’s digital ad market. Here’s how the ad stack actually works — from Ocean Engine targeting to closed-loop ecommerce — and why it’s nothing like TikTok.
Shopee dominates with 53% SEA market share (Momentum Works, 2025), but TikTok Shop’s aggressive growth and social-first model are reshaping the platform wars.
Most companies treat AI as a content generation novelty rather than operational infrastructure. The real impact of AI has almost everything to do with removing friction from core business workflows.
Everyone loves the UPI story. And why wouldn’t they? A country that had 190 million unbanked adults a decade ago now runs the world’s largest real-time payments network. The Unified … Read more
In the space of a single decade, India built the world’s largest real-time payments network, enrolled 1.34 billion citizens in a biometric identity system, and created an open-finance data-sharing framework … Read more
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