H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (21 January 2019) – Welcome to 2019: The Year AI Comes Alive! + Listening to the World
January 21, 2019 Leave a comment
H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (21 January 2019) – Welcome to 2019: The Year AI Comes Alive! + Listening to the World
Companies
- China’s Pinduoduo reports theft of online discount vouchers to police (Reuters)
- Ctrip eyes Europe amid rising domestic competition (Technode)
- Nintendo Rebounds as Optimistic Signs Emerge After a Brutal Year (Bloomberg)
- Afterpay buy now pay later rival Zip favoured by investor Philip King of Regal (AFR)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Samsung, Softbank
- Tencent weighing bid for holding company behind Korea’s Nexon: sources (CNA)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- Don’t Blame Amazon for the Retail Apocalypse (Barron’s)
- Netflix will regulate its content in India. It swears that’s not a bad thing (CNN); Netflix Sees Fortnite as a Bigger Rival Than HBO (Bloomberg)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- Ctrip chairman James Liang backs start-up that helps parents find play dates for their young ones; Moremom aims to help ease the pressures of child-rearing in China with app that matches play dates (SCMP)
- Why the integrator strategy can work for AI startups despite challenges (TIA)
- E-tailers are struggling to cure Indians of cash-on-delivery addiction (qz)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Welcome to 2019: The Year AI Comes Alive! (RG)
- Trucking Companies At War Over This New Niche Of E-Commerce Delivery (ZH)
- Smart Glasses, Neural Computers, Self-Driving Cars: What’s “The Next Big Thing” After Smartphones (ZH)
Life
- What Mary Oliver can teach us about handling criticism with grace (qz)
- Hong Kong’s recent mysterious US$4.8 billion stock plunge underscores risk in world’s 4th-largest equity market (SCMP)
- Listening to the World (On Being)
- The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life (BP)
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