H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (5 September 2018) – Trend Micro adds analytics capabilities to Deep Discovery + Our Crisis of Heart: How compassion can strengthen our emotional responses, our minds — and our tech

H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (5 September 2018) – Trend Micro adds analytics capabilities to Deep Discovery + Our Crisis of Heart: How compassion can strengthen our emotional responses, our minds — and our tech

Companies

• Trend Micro adds analytics capabilities to Deep Discovery (TP); Trend Micro Teams Up with Moxa to Secure and Accelerate Industrial Internet of Things Applications (BW); Trend Micro Emphasizes Importance of IoT Security at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 (BI)
• Line to upgrade mobile payment with $1.3bn bond issuance; Chat app provider will allocate money to fintech and AI development (Nikkei); Japan’s Line raising $1.3 billion via convertible bonds for money businesses (Reuters)
• China’s iQiyi Sports gets more cash to expand football, tennis and golf video streaming (SCMP)
• China’s AI-Powered English Teacher LAIX Files For US$100M US IPO (CMN)
• Chinese mobile games player CMGE seeks Hong Kong listing after quitting Nasdaq (SCMP)
• Meituan updated prospectus reveals huge losses in Mobike ahead of HK IPO (KRA); Meituan’s war footing helps keep it on top in tough Chinese on-demand services market (SCMP)
• ASE COO sheds light on future IC development (Digitimes)

BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Softbank, Samsung

• Samsung Joins Race to the Bottom for Global Smartphone Prices; South Korean company targets India to fend off Chinese companies trying to dominate market for inexpensive phones (WSJ)

FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google

• Facebook thinks it can make social video happen where Netflix couldn’t (qz)
• Instagram building a standalone shopping app for users: The Verge (Reuters)
• Amazon Joins Apple in Climb to $1 Trillion Market Value (Bloomberg); Amazon at $1 Trillion Is More Dream Than Reality; Its market value is a vision of the future, not the present. (Bloomberg); Always ‘leaning into the future,’ Jeff Bezos rockets to richest person on the planet, worth $166 billion (JT); Jeff Bezos: Customer Trust ‘Is What Allows You to Expand’ (Barron’s); At $1 Trillion, Amazon Is Still Not Its Stock Price (Bloomberg)

Asia Tech & Innovation Trends

• China’s tech ecosystems and the barriers between them (Technode)
• In China, a new app is taking on WeChat (TIA)
• Who Wins and Loses If China Creates a New Mobile-Phone Giant (Bloomberg)
• GoGoVan founder gets a crash course in management after expanding into mainland China (SCMP)
• Morris Chang to deliver speech at forum marking 60th year of IC development (Digitimes)
• Indonesia’s Go-Jek to partner with peer-to-peer lending firms (Reuters)

Global Tech & Innovation Trends

• Morgan Stanley’s Long Romance of Palantir Pays Off as IPO Nears (Bloomberg)
• Zara owner Inditex to sell all its brands online by 2020 (Reuters)
• Tesla’s RoboTaxi Worth a Fraction of Waymo, Morgan Stanley Says (Bloomberg)
• How Slack’s Content Strategy Expanded from a Single Page to a Media Company (Medium)
• Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops (FR)

Life

• 12 Brutally Honest Lessons about Life and Entrepreneurship (Medium)
• A Few Principles for Thinking Clearly (Medium)
• The Decision Matrix: How to Prioritize What Matters (Farnam Street)
• Here’s how to learn absolutely anything, according to a world expert (qz)
• How Two Designers Created Airbnb-and Turned It Into a $30 Billion Company (PH)
• Our Crisis of Heart: How compassion can strengthen our emotional responses, our minds — and our tech (Medium)