... s changed Silicon Valley and Seattle. Given this, it's no wonder that getting a tech giant to set up its headquarters in your home city is seen as an economic golden ticket. Amazon is looking to estab ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-23
... estors in Silicon Valley such as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital have all set up cryptofunds. “Investors can move in and out quickly with virtual currency, rather than waiting for years for th ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-17
... iumph. In Silicon Valley, drooling executives are both investing in Bitcoin and pouring money into competitors. After Bitcoin, the most important is Ethereum. The sweeping, Amazon-like ambition of Eth ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-10
... ao urged “Silicon Valley, Detroit, and all other auto industry hubs to step up and help educate a skeptical public about the benefits of automated technology.” Waymo chief executive John Krafcik said ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-10
... omes from Silicon Valley, a place where universal values are embraced. Zuckerberg has never been shy about his political views. He upholds such values as freedom, democracy, openness and fairness, and ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-04
... 's Law or Silicon Economics where we were led to believe that prices would halve every 18 months. Some popular products may just have longer shelf life with steady pricing. Well, we need time to adjus ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-25
... pete with Silicon Valley electric car maker Tesla Inc.’s models. More than 600 new jobs will be created in Daimler’s plan, which includes building a facility in 2018 near the Tuscaloosa plant to produ ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-22
Established in 2002, Blue Bottle has built its reputation on hand-drip coffee, which costs more than US$10 a cup. It’s a favorite of Silicon Valley techies, who have dubbed it "the iPhone of the coffe ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
... ftware on silicon chips for different uses. It said it no longer sells chips to the US military, unlike its two biggest rivals, Xilinx Inc. and Intel Corp.’s Altera. Trump said in an executive order o ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-14
... eam. “For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, to found another successful tech startup like Facebook or Google is not a whimsical thought. [They would] just do it,” said Chan. She started creating Weava wit ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-29
... dented in Silicon Valley and executives have declined to offer a timetable for profitability. Uber is facing allegations of sexual harassment, a lawsuit alleging trade-secrets theft and a federal crim ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-24
... etwork in Silicon Valley and his fundraising capacity. Every time Tesla did a share placing, the market always saw a promising response. Apart from Tesla and SolarCity, Musk still has privately run pr ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... oray into Silicon Valley, weak English competency had an impact on them as well. “The team I was on had 10 to 15 people, but I was the only one who really had fluent English,” said one Chinese employe ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-15
... ance of a Silicon Valley investor suing a central figure at one of its own start-ups. The well-regarded venture firm was an early investor in Uber and said in the lawsuit that it owns 13 percent of Ub ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-11
... pment and silicon wafers. Broad investor sentiment has also been buoyed by a series of favorable political and market developments. In South Korea, the landslide election victory of President Moon Jae ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-10
... . Several Silicon Valley companies developing autonomous driving technology are working on long-haul trucks. They see the industry as a prime early market for the technology, citing the relatively con ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-10
... that the Silicon Valley automaker would face six months of "manufacturing hell" in producing its first Model 3s, investors were enthusiastic over a remaining US$3 billion cash on hand at the end of t ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-03
... gains in Silicon Valley stocks, with the S&P 500 information technology index already up 23 percent this year. "Apple, at the heart of it, has a lot of consumer exposure, and the consumer is in g ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-03
... names of Silicon Valley do, Buffett undoubtedly has done so, as he has pledged to give away the bulk of his fortune to charitable causes. Even though many have questioned his low-profile lifestyle ch ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-31
Jerry Yang, Kai-Fu Lee, Steve Chen: what do they have in common? They are all top-tier Silicon Valley stars who were born in Taiwan. Taiwan has been well known for manufacturing semiconductor for deca ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-27
