Qatar Airways has axed orders for four A350s because of delivery delays, handing the European planemaker a new headache over what to do with jets worth US$1.2 billion, Reuters reports. The cancellatio ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group launched on Wednesday a cut-price voice assistant speaker, marking its first foray into artificially intelligent home devices. The "Tmall Genie", named after the ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
Chinese internet giant Tencent announced earlier this week that it will limit the hours children can play one of its most popular games -- King of Glory. Players aged under 12 will be allowed to log i ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-05
Chinese tech group LeEco, which has interests ranging from smart cars to online content, is facing growing pressure from its creditors and business partners, with one bank wanting some of its assets f ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
It comes as no surprise to anyone that technology in the future will reshape and change the world in new and exciting ways. But taking a step back, let's look at how new technology may impact our most ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
When it comes to eating fish in season, there is a Cantonese proverb that says "spring for bream, autumn for carp, summer for shad". Now as it is already early summer, eating shad is a smart choice. S ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
Earlier this year, Smart City Consortium (SCC) organized an Internet Economy Summit where Lilian Coral, Chief Data Officer of Los Angeles GeoHub, spoke about gathering and utilizing open data, sharing ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
While stories like JD's record sales in its June 18 shopping festival always grab the headlines, apart from the online shopping boom, rosy prospects in hardware such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) an ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
When restaurants charge you more at dinner than at lunch, is that a form of "price discrimination"? Not necessarily. If the restaurant serves a full house every night, but sees only a few tables fille ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty, several senior officials and prominent personalities from the mainland have spoken glowingly of Beijing's efforts to ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
Dramatic election upsets have been occurring all over the place, most recently in Britain where an overconfident prime minister called a snap election in the hope of humiliating the opposition but end ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-16
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are powering a new wave of automation, with machines matching or outperforming humans in a fast-growing range of tasks, including some that require com ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
US President Donald Trump came under fire on Sunday for criticizing London's mayor in the aftermath of attacks in the city that killed seven people and injured at least 48 others. In a tweet, Trump se ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
The world has no shortage of pressing issues. There are 1.6 billion people living in acute poverty; an estimated 780 million adults are illiterate. Serious problems are not confined to the developing ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
The great leader who embarked on the modernization of China, Deng Xiaoping, once said: “Finance is very important. It is the nucleus of the modern economy”. In saying this, Deng obviously wanted very ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
Jia Yueting, founder of the Chinese conglomerate LeEco, will step down as chief executive of the Beijing-based unit Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp. (300104.CN) but will stay on as ch ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
It's quite ridiculous that Hong Kong, which takes pride in calling itself Asia's World City, has shown no tolerance for Uber, a ride-hailing service that employs the wonders of technology for the conv ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-24
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced the commencement of the first phase of study on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) to understand the pros and cons of such facility. Now, what is CB ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-18
Recently, while senior officials in Beijing were busy preparing for the Belt and Road Forum and the Chinese Football Association was preoccupied with ensuring that its representative was elected on Ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-18
In Ghana, a group of enterprising women and young people is building bicycles out of an unlikely material: bamboo. Ten farmers grow the bamboo, and 25 builders craft it into environmentally friendly b ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-04
