The Hong Kong government on Thursday rebuffed a US congressional panel report that suggested that the territory's autonomy and freedoms, including free speech rights and the space for political dissen ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
The US Justice Department said it has arrested and indicted a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security on charges of economic espionage and attempting to steal trade secrets from several US aviation ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to take a majority stake in shared office space provider WeWork Cos, in what would be one of the largest deals of the past decade’s startup boom, the Wall Stre ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Facebook Inc. released a smart speaker designed to ease video calls, but the company’s history of privacy mishaps and the device’s price and limited functionality could slow it from taking on market l ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Uncontrolled spending and ruinous results: Brazil has been a prime example of the policy of “more is less”. Under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, the country felt invincible and believed ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
LINE, a Japan-based mobile messaging app owned by South Korean internet giant Naver, aims to create a blockchain ecosystem for its service offerings. Its blockchain efforts have included the establish ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
Most companies seeking to lease offices still rely on the services of real estate agencies. Hong Kong startup Zoom Offices wants to digitize this traditional lease model by providing an online platfo ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
In 2017, there were more than 2,200 startups in Hong Kong, roughly double the number of such entities recorded in 2014. Meanwhile, venture capital investment increased from HK$600 million in 2012 to H ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Five years ago, I started my own company on the day of the Moon Festival. It turned out a good decision. Today I still work at home, although I have to constantly run around to meet with people for bu ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
As we mark the decennial of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there are still ongoing debates about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis, and whether the lessons needed to prepare for th ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, the world’s largest and most valuable internet company in the 1990s, said in his book The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future that the internet is moving ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-04
One emerging trend in the market is the deployment of new technologies such as robots and the Internet of Things in supply chain management. Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
The United States economy is doing well. But the next recession – and there is always another recession – could be very bad. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that GDP growth in the second ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
JD.com is the country's second-largest e-commerce platform after Alibaba Group. It has collaborated with internet giants such as Tencent Holdings and Google as well as with US retail major Walmart as ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
The space company of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen unveiled details of medium-lift rockets and a reusable space cargo plane it is developing, injecting more competition into the lucrativ ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
It is a real shame that the pedestrian zone at Sai Yeung Choi Street South in Mong Kok has been scrapped, as Hong Kong people are now deprived of a piece of valuable public space. I'm rather distresse ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-14
The West Kowloon terminus for MTR Corp.'s Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link is set to open in six weeks' time with a popular dim sum restaurant as one of its anchor tenants. Tim Ho Wan, a ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-13
Quite often in China, if you want the business, you have to adapt to the local practice and local taste. This appears to be true as well for the top global coffee chain Starbucks. The advent of new te ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-06
In 2012, Germany launched the concept of "Industry 4.0" in its manufacturing sector. Three years later, China implemented a similar initiative, dubbed "Made in China 2025" plan, to modernize the count ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
The Hong Kong government recently launched the HKeMobility app. After downloading it onto their smartphones free of charge, residents can use it to plan trips around the city by road, rail, foot, and ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
