Walmart Inc. and logistics firm Deliv pulled the plug on a key same-day grocery delivery partnership, dealing a setback in the retailer’s race against rival Amazon.com Inc. to deliver groceries to cus ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
Shenzhen-based Soocas, a technology company focusing on personal digital products for health care, has completed a Series C funding round worth 200 million yuan (about US$30 million). The financing ro ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
The Chief Executive in Council has approved a plan to switch off analogue TV services by the end of Nov. 30, 2020, meaning TV services in Hong Kong will be transmitted solely by digital signals from D ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
In the IMD World Talent Report published in November 2018, Hong Kong only ranked 34th in the area of "labor force growth". Coincidently, two days before the report was published, the Secretary for La ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
Big data has great potentials, and in promoting its use, the government has a key role to play. In Asian countries known for innovation such as Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, the government always takes ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecoms equipment and smartphone giant, is preparing to enter the television business, according to mainland media. The Shenzhen-headquartered firm will launch smart ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-29
The 5G revolution is expected to redefine mobile telecommunication. Its ultra-fast speed and low-latency connectivity will unleash new avenues of communication-based applications and solutions, partic ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-29
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po offered an apology after citizens bewailed on social media the chaotic procedure for applying for the government's HK$4,000 cash handout for poor people. Chan admit ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
According to the World Talent Report published by Switzerland-based IMD in November last year, Hong Kong lost the first place in Asia, getting beaten by Singapore. With the report stirring much public ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
US President Donald Trump said in a late night Tweet on Wednesday that he would delay a State of the Union address until the government shutdown was over, responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mo ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
Warung Pintar, an Indonesia-based startup focusing on micro-retail technology, has completed a Series B funding round worth US$27.5 million as it seeks to help more street vendor shops digitize their ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-22
Technology and the economy are much intertwined nowadays. In December, I attended two conferences on economic trends and prospects for technology. One was the Hong Kong Economic Summit 2019 organize ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-21
