H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (20 October 2018) – Innodisk forming alliance with subsidiaries, partners to tap AIoT opportunities + The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási

October 20, 2018 Leave a comment

H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (20 October 2018) – Innodisk forming alliance with subsidiaries, partners to tap AIoT opportunities + The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási

Companies

  • Innodisk forming alliance with subsidiaries, partners to tap AIoT opportunities (Digitimes)

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

  • Tencent plays hard catch-up with Tik Tok, launching yet another short video app (KRA)
  • Alibaba pledges ‘largest ever’ Singles’ Day as shopping festival marks 10th anniversary, goes international (SCMP)

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

  • Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech’s responsibilities; Apple’s chief design officer on Steve Jobs, the $5bn new campus — and why the unforeseen consequences of tech keep him awake (FT)
  • The quality of quantity at Netflix (FT)

Asia Tech & Innovation Trends

  • A closer look at China’s current community group buy fad; A new methodology to handle the high costs associated with perishable goods delivery (KRA)
  • Postman, shopper, builder: In Japan, there’s a robot for that (Japan Times)

Global Tech & Innovation Trends

  • Why Disney Can Be a New-Media Powerhouse (Barron’s)
  • A New Way to Rank the Risks of the Big Tech Stocks (Barron’s)
  • Serverless Computing’s Innovative Approach to Software Development (WSJ)

Life

  • The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success Hardcover – November 6, 2018 (Amazon)
  • How we think about digital moat sources and threats (Todd Wenning, PDF)
  • This is The Only Viable Strategy to Build an Audience for Your Work (Medium)

Filed under Innovation

About bambooinnovator
Kee Koon Boon (“KB”) is the co-founder and director of HERO Investment Management which provides specialized fund management and investment advisory services to the ARCHEA Asia HERO Innovators Fund (www.heroinnovator.com), the only Asian SMID-cap tech-focused fund in the industry. KB is an internationally featured investor rooted in the principles of value investing for over a decade as a fund manager and analyst in the Asian capital markets who started his career at a boutique hedge fund in Singapore where he was with the firm since 2002 and was also part of the core investment committee in significantly outperforming the index in the 10-year-plus-old flagship Asian fund. He was also the portfolio manager for Asia-Pacific equities at Korea’s largest mutual fund company. Prior to setting up the H.E.R.O. Innovators Fund, KB was the Chief Investment Officer & CEO of a Singapore Registered Fund Management Company (RFMC) where he is responsible for listed Asian equity investments. KB had taught accounting at the Singapore Management University (SMU) as a faculty member and also pioneered the 15-week course on Accounting Fraud in Asia as an official module at SMU. KB remains grateful and honored to be invited by Singapore’s financial regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to present to their top management team about implementing a world’s first fact-based forward-looking fraud detection framework to bring about benefits for the capital markets in Singapore and for the public and investment community. KB also served the community in sharing his insights in writing articles about value investing and corporate governance in the media that include Business Times, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Manual of Ideas, Investopedia, TedXWallStreet. He had also presented in top investment, banking and finance conferences in America, Italy, Sydney, Cape Town, HK, China. He has trained CEOs, entrepreneurs, CFOs, management executives in business strategy & business model innovation in Singapore, HK and China.

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