H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (27 December 2018) – Toyota Wants to Put a Robot Friend in Every Home + Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
December 27, 2018 Leave a comment
H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (27 December 2018) – Toyota Wants to Put a Robot Friend in Every Home + Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Companies
- Xiaomi to expand India stores 10-fold as online sales stagnate; Expansion of physical stores risks hurting price competitiveness (Nikkei)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Samsung, Softbank
- Tencent-backed homework app jumps to $3B valuation after raising $300M (Techcrunch, KRA)
- Philippine e-payment apps bank on Alibaba and Tencent for growth (Nikkei)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- India tightens e-commerce rules, likely to hit Amazon, Flipkart (SCMP); Amazon, Walmart Face Tougher Rules as India Helps Small Traders (Bloomberg)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- Ping An Technology vies for China’s cloud market leadership, taking on Alibaba and Tencent (SCMP)
- Chinese home sharing site Xiaozhu to roll out facial recognition-enabled smart locks in Chengdu pilot scheme (SCMP)
- Toyota Wants to Put a Robot Friend in Every Home (Bloomberg)
- India’s start-ups fear extinction from ‘angel tax’; Government sends notices demanding payments for funds pumped in by individual investors (FT)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries (CBI); 7 Predictions for AI in 2019 (EE Times)
- Salesforce keeps rolling with another banner year in 2018 (Techcrunch)
- Retailers’ Gift-Return Problem Has a High-Tech Solution; Store owners can use big-data tactics to tackle the challenge of managing costly merchandise returns. (Bloomberg)
Life
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