Google parent Alphabet Inc. missed analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit as it reported its highest-ever quarterly expenses, sending shares down about 1.2 percent, Reuters reports. The world’s domi ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
Indonesian ride-hailing and payments giant Gojek is preparing for a dual listing after its co-founder and chief executive Nadiem Makarim stepped down to join the second-term cabinet of Indonesian Pres ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
Japanese Emperor Naruhito began ceremonies to formally proclaim his enthronement on Tuesday in a centuries-old ritual attended by dignitaries from more than 180 countries. Naruhito, 59, and his Harvar ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-22
Fitbit Inc. is developing a method to detect irregular heart rhythm in time through a partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance, as the wearable device maker looks to match a feature avail ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
Sentons, a startup led by chip industry veterans, has begun marketing technology that aims to do away with gadget buttons and said it is working with two smartphone makers in addition to an existing c ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
Five siblings and a man believed to be their father were receiving medical treatment after Dutch police acting on a tip discovered them locked away in a secret room at an isolated farm, Reuters report ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-16
SoftBank Group has prepared a financing package for WeWork Companies that would give it control over the shared office space company, the Wall Street Journal reported. The package would significantly ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
Smartphone users have been griping about lack of real innovation and absence of surprises in most new product launches in the industry in recent years. But last week there was a reminder that surprise ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-09
The implosion of office space company WeWork this week is being digested as a lesson for Silicon Valley startups – in what not to do. WeWork’s parent The We Company on Monday filed to withdraw its ini ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act has already been approved by the foreign relations panels of the US Senate and House of Representatives, and is due to be put to the vote in Congress next ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
In just one day, on Wednesday last week, the chief executives of three global companies – WeWork, eBay and Juul – all resigned. What once seemed bewildering is no longer so. In fact, more than 1,000 l ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
In the run-up to Taiwan's January presidential election, China is taking economic, political, military and diplomatic steps in an effort to prevent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-23
Thousands of students took to the streets of Australia and other Asia-Pacific countries on Friday to kick off a global strike demanding world leaders gathering for a UN Climate Action Summit adopt urg ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-20
Technologies such as face recognition and radio frequency identification (RFID) have sparked privacy controversies around the globe, with people fretting about systems that can be used for surveillanc ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-13
STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education has been advocated for about 10 years, and has become one of the most sought after subjects in Hong Kong. Let us now look into some new d ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-11
WeWork owner The We Company is considering slashing the valuation it will seek in an initial public offering to a little over US$20 billion, less than half the US$47 billion valuation it achieved in a ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-06
Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., and its YouTube video service will pay US$170 million to settle allegations that it broke federal law by collecting personal information about children, Reuter ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-05
(First of a two-part interview with Kristo Käärmann, co-founder and CEO of TransferWise) According to World Bank estimates, an estimated 270 million migrants around the world will send a combined US$6 ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-02
Since China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, the city has prospered economically, but festered politically. Now, one of the world’s richest cities is engulfed by protests, which ha ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-28
Smartphone makers have been busy in recent months getting their new flagship products ready for this fall. Amid this activity, some players seem to resorting to, shall we say, sleight of hand as they ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-27
