H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (24 April 2019) – Nearmap Partners with HNTB to Use 3-D Aerial Imagery to Win More Business Against Larger Competitors

April 24, 2019 Leave a comment

H.E.R.O.’s Journey in Tech (24 April 2019) – Nearmap Partners with HNTB to Use 3-D Aerial Imagery to Win More Business Against Larger Competitors

Companies

  • Douyu files for US IPO: How China’s answer to Twitch is really not like the US game-streaming service at all (SCMP)
  • Nintendo’s surge on China entry prospects has not deterred short bets by hedge funds (SCMP)
  • Terry Gou’s replacement at Foxconn faces difficult path ahead; Big question is where the Taiwanese group’s growth will come from in future (FT)
  • Atlassian Acquires From its PaaS Marketplace (SM)
  • Nearmap Partners with HNTB to Use 3-D Aerial Imagery to Win More Business Against Larger Competitors (BW)

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

  • Defective Galaxy Fold is another dent for brand Samsung; Delayed launch of foldable smartphone a bigger hit for company’s reputation than finances (FT); Samsung’s Reputation Founders on Rush for Lead in Folding Phones (Bloomberg)
  • Didi-SoftBank taxi-hailing JV expands to 13 cities across Japan (Reuters); SoftBank to Consider Acquiring 5% Stake in Wirecard (Bloomberg)

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

  • Facebook’s flood of languages leaves it struggling to monitor content (Reuters)
  • JCPenney explains why it dropped Apple Pay (TC)
  • Will Netflix Junk Bonds Wilt Amid the Content Wars? (Bloomberg)

Asia Tech & Innovation Trends

  • China’s game makers face a shapeshifting boss (Reuters)
  • Bytedance’s tutoring platform Gogokid laying off employees (Technode)
  • China’s Bytedance says India TikTok ban causing $500,000 daily loss, risks jobs (Reuters)
  • Mobile ad fraud spooking marketers: MMA; 22% of the mobile ad spends in India are subject to fraud, says survey (Forbes)

Global Tech & Innovation Trends

  • AI is helping regulators keep tabs on new industrial farms and their waste discharging habits (TNW)
  • Voiceflow, which allows anyone to make voice apps without coding, raises $3.5 million (TC)
  • Salesforce.com acquisition of related company mixes complex transactions with a big writeoff (MW)
  • Umicore: “Demand patterns for cathode materials have deteriorated in the past couple of months, in China and Korea in particular. In China, the demand for EVs has considerably decreased from the levels of the second half of 2018” (Barron’s)
  • Roku Stock Will Keep Soaring Because People Will Keep Cutting the Cord, Analyst Says (Barron’s)
  • How patients can turn their medical data into money; Wave of start-ups offer to aggregate information for research opportunities (FT)
  • Why Spotify Stock Is Worth the Risk, According to a Top Shareholder (Barron’s)
  • Audioburst raises $10M to build AI-powered infotainment systems for cars, ad solutions (TC)
  • Porsche CEO Eyes Cooperation With Chinese Technology Giants (Bloomberg)
  • Dassault Eyes U.S. Acquisitions Including Medidata (Bloomberg)
  • Snap Enters Its Rorschach Phase: You See What You Want (Bloomberg)
  • Elon Musk’s Chipmaking Claims Don’t Match the Reality (Bloomberg)

Life

  • Short Seller Bonitas Targets Singapore’s Best World, Sending Shares Lower (Bloomberg)
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Kee Koon Boon (“KB”) is the co-founder and director of HERO Investment Management which provides specialized fund management and investment advisory services to the ARCHEA Asia HERO Innovators Fund (www.heroinnovator.com), the only Asian SMID-cap tech-focused fund in the industry. KB is an internationally featured investor rooted in the principles of value investing for over a decade as a fund manager and analyst in the Asian capital markets who started his career at a boutique hedge fund in Singapore where he was with the firm since 2002 and was also part of the core investment committee in significantly outperforming the index in the 10-year-plus-old flagship Asian fund. He was also the portfolio manager for Asia-Pacific equities at Korea’s largest mutual fund company. Prior to setting up the H.E.R.O. Innovators Fund, KB was the Chief Investment Officer & CEO of a Singapore Registered Fund Management Company (RFMC) where he is responsible for listed Asian equity investments. KB had taught accounting at the Singapore Management University (SMU) as a faculty member and also pioneered the 15-week course on Accounting Fraud in Asia as an official module at SMU. KB remains grateful and honored to be invited by Singapore’s financial regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to present to their top management team about implementing a world’s first fact-based forward-looking fraud detection framework to bring about benefits for the capital markets in Singapore and for the public and investment community. KB also served the community in sharing his insights in writing articles about value investing and corporate governance in the media that include Business Times, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Manual of Ideas, Investopedia, TedXWallStreet. He had also presented in top investment, banking and finance conferences in America, Italy, Sydney, Cape Town, HK, China. He has trained CEOs, entrepreneurs, CFOs, management executives in business strategy & business model innovation in Singapore, HK and China.

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