H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (19 November 2018) – ‘Dragon Ball’ Continues to Top Profits With Bandai + The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper
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H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (19 November 2018) – ‘Dragon Ball’ Continues to Top Profits With Bandai + The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper
Companies
- ‘Dragon Ball’ Continues to Top Profits With Bandai (CB)
- Ping An Good Doctor blazes trail in developing unstaffed, AI-assisted clinics in China (SCMP)
- Xiaomi Has Chance to Justify Lofty Valuation After 23% Slide (Bloomberg)
- iFAST founder Lim confident China business will be exciting (Edge)
- Ennoconn to raise funds via shares (Taipei Times)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Softbank, Samsung
- Alibaba makes strategic investment in home renovation platform “007 eService” (KRA)
- Tencent turns to Sea to sell games in south-east Asia (FT); Chinese consumers send Tencent disturbing message on apps; Tech giant faces challenge to online businesses outside gaming (Nikkei)
- SoftBank’s Next Robot After Pepper Skips Chit Chat, Mops Floors (Bloomberg)
- Ill-timed scandal for the ‘Republic of Samsung’; BioLogics case highlights wider problems for Korea Inc and president Moon (Nikkei)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- Inside Apple’s humans-first, tech second news platform (Age)
- Nvidia Hands an $824 Million Windfall to Semiconductor Shorts (Bloomberg)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- Meet The Man Behind Oppo’s Super Fast Charging Speeds (Forbes)
- US listings back in favour after China tech firms’ Hong Kong IPOs fail to take off, says JPMorgan (SCMP)
- iPhone glass supplier Biel Crystal postpones US$1.5 billion Hong Kong listing amid market rout (SCMP)
- Japanese drone startup ACSL files for IPO (Bridge)
- Indonesian Tokopedia launches service to bridge online and offline retailing (KRA)
- Thailand is pioneering the future of robotics and automation (qz)
- Three Charts That Explain Boom in Southeast Asia’s Net Economy (Bloomberg)
- Think Your Postal Service Has Problems? Try Delivering to 18,000 Far-Flung Islands; In Indonesia, an online shopping boom that should be helping the mail service is actually making things worse. (Bloomberg)
- OYO already had the bucks. Now it has a CEO who can use them (qz)
- Should India credit Modi’s demonetisation for digital boom? (SCMP)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Box CEO Aaron Levie thinks big companies are responding to disruption the wrong way (qz)
- Chip industry’s new paradigm looks like the old one (BT)
- Investors Don’t Think Much of Michael Dell’s Company (Barron’s)
- Spotify, Pandora Turn to Podcasts for Listeners, Profits; Music-streaming giants are poised to use their machine-learning and AI capabilities to help listeners discover new podcasts (WSJ)
- ‘Uber Eats and Deliveroo should be very worried’: Ruling to reshape gig economy (Age)
Life
- The story of Li Ka-shing, the billionaire who made early bets on Facebook, Spotify (TIA)
- The Unfair Advantage Of Discomfort (ROIhttps://kc-roi.com/blog/the-unfair-advantage-of-discomfort)
- History of Corporate “Misadventures” in India (PRDNT)
- The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper Hardcover – January 3, 2017 (Amazon)
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