H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (20 April 2019) – All shook up: Behind the rise of Atlassian, Australia’s $35b tech giant; Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! The Exclusive Inside Story Of The New Billionaire Behind Tech’s Hottest IPO + Memento Contendere: The Benefits of Intentionally Anticipating Our Struggles
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H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (20 April 2019) – All shook up: Behind the rise of Atlassian, Australia’s $35b tech giant; Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! The Exclusive Inside Story Of The New Billionaire Behind Tech’s Hottest IPO + Memento Contendere: The Benefits of Intentionally Anticipating Our Struggles
Companies
- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! The Exclusive Inside Story Of The New Billionaire Behind Tech’s Hottest IPO (Forbes)
- iFlytek’s expenses swell in the first quarter of 2019 (Technode)
- Following $43 Million in Losses in 2018, NetEase Cloud Music Partners with Japan’s Nippon Columbia (DMN)
- Rakuten LIFULL STAY Offers Japanese Vacation Rental Inventories to trivago (WW)
- Nintendo picks Tencent for third shot at China game market (Nikkei)
- What To Expect If Taiwan’s iPhone Billionaire Wins The Presidential Election (Forbes)
- Power supply maker and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics has disclosed it has acquired a factory located in northern Taiwan at NT$2.568 billion (US$83.3 million). (Digitimes)
- All shook up: Behind the rise of Atlassian, Australia’s $35b tech giant (SMH); Atlassian’s Expanding Collaboration Product Portfolio Is Driving Strong Growth (Forbes)
BATTSS – Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, TSMC, Samsung, Softbank
- Baidu is reportedly incubating a music app to defend itself against ByteDance (KRA); Baidu reportedly seeks to revive music business with a music app, talent shows (Technode)
- Tencent’s document collaboration tool gained 30 million users within one year of launch (KRA)
FAANNMG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft, Google
- Google is a leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning, both areas that have huge untapped commercial opportunity. (AFR)
- Amazon and Google Are Playing Nice in Streaming Because They Have To (Barron’s)
- Google’s advanced tech director wants everything to be a computer; At TED, Ivan Poupyrev showed off a tiny new device for linking sensors to the cloud, part of his vision of embedding computing in everything we touch. (FastCo)
- Apple’s 5G move to spark Asian investment ‘boom’; Next iPhone launch will drive spending on network infrastructure, say Huawei and others (Nikkei)
Asia Tech & Innovation Trends
- Chinese Airbnb rival Tujia aims for profitability in 2019 as it prepares for IPO; Tujia controls nearly half of China’s home-sharing market along with Alibaba-backed rival Xiaozhu. (KRA)
- ByteDance’s Douyin teams up with big name film production companies (KRA); Douyin is slowing down, but China’s short-video stars are here to stay (Technode)
- Coming soon to China: the car of the future — hyper-connected, autonomous and shared (JT)
- With the power to change the world, here’s why the US and China are fighting over our 5G future (SCMP)
- The Bengaluru tech centre that’s powering Walmart (Forbes)
Global Tech & Innovation Trends
- Live streaming is overdue for an overhaul. Here’s why. (TNW)
- com’s CEO on diversity in tech and the future of tourism (TNW)
- A Q&A with Roland CEO Jun-ichi Miki on innovation, Waku Waku, and ‘sleeping musicians’ (TNW)
- Jumia’s successful billion-dollar IPO is a landmark-but it won’t gloss over lingering operational issues (qz)
- Consumer-Staples Stocks Are the Newest Dinosaurs as Shoppers Change; online shopping has gone from just 16% of core sales (excluding categories like gasoline and autos) to 23% today (Barron’s)
- How Podcasting Became a Big Business (Barron’s)
- Spotify’s Stock Is Risky Because the Music Industry Is Not Changing Fast Enough (Barron’s)
- GPUs Holding Back AI Innovation (EET)
- First Look At The Fastly IPO Filing (CB)
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