With the value of Bitcoin having fallen by around 70 percent since its peak late last year, the mother of all bubbles has now gone bust. More generally, cryptocurrencies have entered a not-so-cryptic ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
In her policy address last week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor showed her administration's commitment to innovation and technology (I&T) development by pledging HK$4 billion for the r ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
Vice President Wang Qishan will travel to Israel to attend the fourth China-Israel Innovation Committee conference next week. He is the highest-ranking Chinese to visit the country since then Presiden ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
In the digital era of the 21st Century, accelerated development of smart industry will give rise to new industry clusters one after another and change the value chains in different sectors. Smart indu ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
Apple Inc. is taking control over the power-management technology at the heart of its iPhones in a US$600 million deal with Dialog Semiconductor, Reuters reports. The agreement to license technology a ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said her administration will allocate HK$28 billion to further promote innovation and technology (I&T) in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Economic Journal repor ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
I attended a competition among university students from Hong Kong, mainland China, India and South Korea over the weekend. Participants were required to design a data dashboard showing life in Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
No one disagrees that Hong Kong's most urgent issue is the abysmal state of its housing. Even the opposition admits this although it insists the housing crisis doesn't give the government an excuse to ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
No one disagrees that Hong Kong's most urgent issue is ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年10月11日
Facebook has launched a smart speaker that facilitates video calls at home, but it seems it has chosen the wrong time to bring such a product to the market. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal e ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Google on Tuesday unveiled two new Pixel smartphones, a Google Home smart speaker with a display, and its first-ever tablet computer, signaling the firm's growing ambitions to compete with tech rivals ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Chinese internet giant Tencent (00700.HK) has acquired a minority stake in Nu Pagamentos SA, a Brazilian financial technology firm that offers virtual credit cards, in a deal worth US$180 million. The ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Hong Kong has been seeking to transform itself from a traditional economy into a digital city, with the government introducing various initiatives, such as huge investment in digital infrastructure an ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
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
Innovation plays a vital role in the success and development of every country and community around the world. According to the United Nations, more than 54 percent of the world’s population now reside ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
