H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (14 January 2019) – Health imaging software company Pro Medicus wants 2019 to be the year it expands beyond radiology, helping doctors who increasingly refer to photos – often just a snap on their iPhone – when diagnosing patients to better manage their records

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H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (14 January 2019) – Health imaging software company Pro Medicus wants 2019 to be the year it expands beyond radiology, helping doctors who increasingly refer to photos – often just a snap on their iPhone – when diagnosing patients to better manage their records

Companies

  • Xiaomi’s Wishful Thinking on Display in 5G Hopes; CEO Lei Jun needs to find a new driver of smartphone demand. His whole business model depends on it. (Bloomberg)
  • CES can be stage for Chinese companies to showcase themselves: iFLYTEK vice president (GT)
  • Health imaging software company Pro Medicus wants 2019 to be the year it expands beyond radiology, helping doctors who increasingly refer to photos – often just a snap on their iPhone – when diagnosing patients to better manage their records. (AFR)

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

  • The Alibaba effect: Chinese e-tailer tightens grip over 600m lives; Users sacrifice privacy for convenience of shopping, finance and health care (Nikkei)
  • WeChat’s Star Founder Seeks Second Act for China’s Super-App (Bloomberg)
  • Alibaba & Tencent, game on: How gamification brings success to Chinese internet companies. (KRA)
  • Samsung to launch India-first smartphones to counter Chinese rivals (Reuters)

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

  • What Amazon’s Rise to No. 1 Says About the Stock Market; The biggest companies are still the most dominant. The biggest companies today make up less of the overall market than those in the past. And the biggest companies can still be top (WSJ)

Asia Tech & Innovation Trends

  • Beijing widens control of wildly popular short-video apps; Rules that target everything from spell chanting to money worship will be costly to roll out (FT)
  • If China Tech Thought 2018 Was Bad, Wait Till This Year Unfolds (Bloomberg)
  • Hong Kong self-driving start-up AutoX in talks to raise US$100 million funding (SCMP)

Global Tech & Innovation Trends

  • Dropbox: cloud nein; Halting slowdown in revenue growth means squeezing more from customers (FT)
  • How Michael Dell Got $12 Billion Richer Out of the Public Eye (Bloomberg)

Life

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