Company Profiles

Tokopedia: ByteDance’s $1.5B Indonesia E-Commerce Bet

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Tokopedia isn’t the company it was two years ago. What started in 2009 as a homegrown Indonesian marketplace — founded by William Tanuwijaya and Leontinus Alpha Edison to connect small-town … Read more

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Analysis

How Ads, Commerce and AI are Converging in Asia

How Ads, Commerce and AI are Converging in Asia

There’s a simple model for understanding Asia’s digital economy, and most people haven’t drawn it yet. Three layers — advertising, commerce, and artificial intelligence — are collapsing into a single … Read more

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Company Profiles

ByteDance’s Global Business: TikTok, Douyin, Commerce and AI

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ByteDance doesn’t just own TikTok. It runs the most valuable private technology company on the planet — valued at US$550 billion as of February 2026 after a General Atlantic secondary … Read more

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