H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (21 November 2018) – Yamaha’s CSP-170 makes learning piano easy with LED lights and one clever app + Podcast #459: Beyond Gratitude Lite: The Real Virtue of Thankfulness
November 21, 2018 Leave a comment
H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (21 November 2018) – Yamaha’s CSP-170 makes learning piano easy with LED lights and one clever app + Podcast #459: Beyond Gratitude Lite: The Real Virtue of Thankfulness
Companies
- Yamaha’s CSP-170 makes learning piano easy with LED lights and one clever app (TNW)
- Tencent-Backed Travel Site Raises $180 Million in Hong Kong IPO (Bloomberg)
- Crunch time for Tencent Music’s 2018 $2 billion IPO hopes (Reuters)
- NetEase Ding Lei: China will remain world’s best market for next decade (KRA)
- Sea Ltd., operator of Southeast Asia’s biggest gaming platform, reported a wider third-quarter loss on rising investments at e-commerce unit Shopee. (Bloomberg)
- How India is preparing for the Electric Mobility revolution: Why a robust ecosystem is critical; Delta is the name behind the Bharat Charger, a make in India Charger for the current crop of Indian Electric Cars (FE)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Softbank, Samsung
- Alibaba makes strategic investment in home renovation platform “007 eService”; To Alibaba, this investment is about its New Retail plan. (KRA)
- Samsung doubles down on virtual assistant in growth push; Digital assistant Bixby to be standard on all of company’s electronics products by 2020 (FT); Samsung is working on a version of Bixby that constantly learns new skills from its owners (AFR)
- SoftBank to Invest $2 Billion in Korean E-Commerce Site Coupang (Bloomberg)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- How Amazon marches to the beat of a different drum (BT)
- Microsoft Finds Itself in Favor as Stock Rout Punishes FAANGs (Bloomberg)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- Are China’s Billionaire Tech Founders Slipping Out of Touch? A #MeToo gaffe suggests that in entrepreneurship as in society, the old ways aren’t working too well. (Bloomberg)
- Chinese Tech Companies Get a New Exchange in Shanghai (Bloomberg)
- An intro into the e-commerce players in Vietnam (KRA)
- How a battery of feet-on-street counsellors that doubles up as a sales army is helping Toppr score in revenue and reach. Will the offline gambit pay off for the edutech startup? (Forbes)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Founder’s Big Idea to Revive BuzzFeed’s Fortunes? A Merger With Rivals (NYT)
- Disaster relief is dangerously broken. Can AI fix it? (FastCo)
- Dot-Com Ghosts Haunt Emerging Stocks as Tech Profits Stall (Bloomberg)
Life
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