The stock market has been flooded with liquidity recently, and this has driven the prices of some stocks sky high. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Thursday approved the IPO applic ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
Apple Inc. begins worldwide sales of its highly anticipated smart watch on Friday, capping a run of intense publicity and two weeks of frenetic pre-orders. The Apple Watch is the first new product of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
Despite the growing popularity of online shopping, last-mile issues remain a challenge for e-tailers. One-year-old FingerShopping has found a cost-effective solution that could be a model for the indu ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-23
In China, there is a golden rule for investing: "Don't go against the government". This prompts people to always time their speculative bets in line with perceived policy changes or initiatives. Right ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to attempt the nation's first lunar landing in fiscal 2018, Kyodo news agency reported, citing sources close to the project. The space agency ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
The conventional view in mainstream economics today is that governments have little capacity to spark innovation. The state should play as limited a role in the economy as possible, the thinking goes, ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
Hong Kong’s longest-serving mobile chief will call it a day at the end of summer. SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. (00315.HK) chief executive Douglas Li will take his helmet off at the end of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Residents of Tokyo will get a chance to zip around town on Toyota Motor Corp.'s three-wheeled electric car-motorbike from Friday, Reuters reported. The six-month experiment by the world's top-selling ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
Hong Kong stocks soared on its first post-holiday trading day on Wednesday, but not all investors were happy about it. A number of trading systems operated by banks and brokerages were seriously jamme ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
After the runaway successes of iPod, iPhone and iPad, Apple is now turning to the wearable technology market with the debut of Apple Watch. It is easy to understand why Apple's CEO Tim Cook is quite e ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-07
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is to blame for Hong Kong's messy terrestrial television industry after he refused a license to Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) two years ago. It's almost poetic ju ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
BYD Co. Ltd. (1211.HK) expects exponential growth in sales of its new-energy vehicles, particularly the plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHV), this year, chairman and president Wang Chuanfu said. At a post-re ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
A number of Hong Kong-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track specific sectors in the A-share market will be on the horizon if A shares are included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, State St ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
A terrifying phone call to a mother last week should serve as a warning to the public about phone scams. The mother, whose son is a primary school student at the Victoria Shanghai Academy (VSA) in Sha ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
Europe is on the cusp of an unprecedented technological transformation. I call it the Internet of Everything: the penetration of the World Wide Web into the everyday aspects of our lives. Wearable tec ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
Li Ning Co. Ltd. (02331.HK) aims to break even this year after spending two years consolidating its business. The sports apparel company, headed by former national athlete Li Ning, saw sales grow 23 p ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
Chinese sports apparel brand Li Ning has joined hands with smartphone maker Xiaomi to produce a line of "smart" running shoes. It marks the latest effort by Li Ning to recapture its glory days. Given ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
LeTV, a smart television made by a Chinese company, has bugs in its operating system that make it vulnerable to hackers. The vulnerability allows malicious programs to be installed in its built-in ope ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
Being a dominant player in China's e-commerce market is obviously not enough for Alibaba. Aside from snapping up or buying into a wide range of technology companies, it is also moving into another new ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
While mainlanders now use their smartphones to pay for taxi fares, Hong Kong people still settle daily transactions with cash, Octopus smart card or credit card. And if Hong Kong people like to earn b ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12