How Taiwan Made Cashless Payments Cute
At a 7-Eleven convenience store in Taiwan, you can pick up a 4-inch plushie of Miffy, the bunny…
UK budget, Alibaba, Dell, Remi Cointreau and EasyJet
The UK autumn budget will be in the spotlight in the coming week, along with earnings releases from…
Trump’s rare earths deal to counter China was a badly needed ‘Sputnik moment’
The other day US President Donald Trump said: “With a communist in charge? Look, you just go back…
Alibaba ‘plans $3.2bn raise’ to strengthen cloud computing
Alibaba is reportedly planning to raise $3.2 billion through the sale of a zero-coupon convertible bond as it…
Alibaba holds wide lead over rivals ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent in China’s AI cloud market
Alibaba Group Holding captured more than a third of China’s artificial intelligence cloud services market in the first…
It Is Very Hard To Catch AWS On The Clouds
Years before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, there were a slew of grid computing startups and…
China to Donald Trump: Sorry, we don’t want your ‘Obsolete’ Nvidia AI chips
China is reportedly pressuring major tech companies like Alibaba and ByteDance to reconsider their orders for Nvidia’s H20…
AlipayHK extends fee waivers for Hong Kong cabbies amid e-payment reluctance
E-payment service provider AlipayHK will continue to waive fees for Hong Kong taxi drivers to encourage them to…
Europe is expecting a wave of Chinese tourists. Should it thank Donald Trump?
Europe is basking in summer, with sunny skies, high temperatures – and a surge in Chinese tourists. Despite…
How Singapore’s economic architect Goh Keng Swee shaped its state-linked giants
The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s A-Team is a new anthology about Singapore’s founding leaders. In…