SoftBank Group's Vision Fund is hiring an investment team to be based in China, with plans to open its first China office in Shanghai next year, according to Reuters. Citing sources with knowledge of ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
... e radical vision? In the event, different factions pushed for different approaches, and frequent and abrupt reversals were common. The man who drafted the original Appeals Act, Thomas Cromwell, was ex ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
... “computer vision” to help phones recognize objects and faces, and support a new Qualcomm fingerprint sensor that can read a user’s fingerprint through the glass screen of a smartphone. The Samsung pho ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
... Tomorrow Vision" has received a lot of bad press and provoked huge skepticism since it was unveiled, some people in government believe that it would be very difficult for the administration to allay ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-30
... seen as a visionary, hosting annual SoftBank World events showcasing cutting-edge technology, and as the person who brought Apple Inc.’s iPhone to Japan with a years-long SoftBank exclusivity deal. “I ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-30
... Tomorrow Vision” proposal. We can’t afford to say no to it anymore, can we? This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Nov 16 Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting [Chines ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-26
... a single vision to building global economic infrastructure, to help businesses to scale globally,” Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of the Melbourne-headquartered firm, told EJ Insight. Backed by Chine ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-26
... ital unit Vision Fund. It is not clear if the latest funding comes from SoftBank Group Corp or its Vision Fund, the report said. Tokopedia has raised US$2.3 billion in capital since its founding, acco ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-22
... tion of a visionary leader, the plan merely served to exacerbate existing differences amongst Britain’s population. These differences were laid bare by the initial ‘leave’ vote in June 2016, when clea ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
SoftBank’s Vision Fund is investing an additional US$2 billion in South Korea’s top e-commerce firm Coupang as the loss-making startup seeks to cement its market dominance, Reuters reports. The latest ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
... Tomorrow Vision” project announced by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor in her policy address will go some way to alleviating the problems arising from urbanization, and help shape Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
... Tomorrow Vision" project proposed by Lam in her recent policy address, under which artificial islands will be built in the adjacent waters of Kau Yi Chau and Hei Ling Chau, as well as in the waters o ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-16
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said reclamation is inevitable to boost land supply for housing, highlighting her resolve to pursue her "Lantau Tomorrow Vision" despite widespread oppositio ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-14
... SoftBank Vision Fund has investments in several startups that include US ride-services firm Uber Technologies. The loss-making startup WeWork and the Japanese company are closely entwined, with hundr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-14
... Tomorrow Vision", Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had on Oct. 10 unveiled a plan to create artificial islands in the seas through large-scale reclamation. Delivering her annual policy s ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-13
