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Friday 22 June 2018
China AI unicorns grow stronger on fresh financial injections
China's AI sector has witnessed a new round of fundraising campaigns, with a flurry of investment deals completed over the past few weeks to make AI unicorns there stronger, according...
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Edge AI solutions provider Kneron aspires to become innovation leader
Taiwan's edge AI solutions provider Kneron has recently completed its series A1 financing of US$18 million led by Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Hong Kong tycoon...
Thursday 7 June 2018
Samsung NEXT to invest in startups with decentralized applications
Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics, is actively seeking investment targets in the fields of AI, IoT, AR/VR, blockchain, smart healthcare data...
Friday 13 April 2018
Global tech giants rushing to invest heavily in AI deployments
Despite AI (artificial intelligence) technologies and applications still at a nascent development stage, global tech giants have rushed to invest heavily in making strategic deployments...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Taiwan gearing up to create first startup unicorn
Taiwan is gearing up to improve investment environment for startups to facilitate the establishment of at least 10,000 startups to drive industrial upgrades and transformations, while...
Monday 12 February 2018
Taiwan eases rules to drive investment in AI, big data, biomedicine
Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) has relaxed regulations on applications for funding under its jurisdiction to better support and encourage investments in AI (artificial...
Thursday 25 January 2018
AppWorks Ventures incubates 323 startups
Taiwan-based AppWorks Ventures has said it has incubated 323 startups with 780 founders and 5,696 employees since its establishment in 2010.
Monday 27 November 2017
Commentary: China actively nurturing unicorns in Southeast Asia
Statistics from US-based research body CB Insights show that non-US unicorn startups commanded a 50% share of total global unicorns as of the end of August 2017, sharply up from only...
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Appier obtains investment of US$33 million in series C round, says paper
Taiwan-based AI (artificial intelligence)-based application developer Appier has raised venture capital funds of US$33 million in series C round from Japan-based SoftBank and LINE,...
Friday 11 August 2017
Taiwan government to foster 30,000 startups in 3 years via direct investment
Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) has decided to make direct investments in tech startups, instead of offering them subsidies as done in the past, aiming to build sound...
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Taiwan first IoT venture capital of NT$4 billion to be available by end of September
Taiwan's government is very likely to complete raising NT$4 billion (US$130 million) in venture capital fund dedicated to investment in IoT (Internet of Things) startups by the end...
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Trend Micro sets up venture capital fund
Trend Micro has set up venture capital fund of US$100 million for investment in innovation start-up businesses engaged in R&D of new technologies, especially those related to...
Thursday 30 June 2016
HTC, investment firms to form VR venture capital alliance
HTC has announced that it has teamed up with a total of 28 venture investment companies, including Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners, to form the Virtual Reality Venture Capital...
Friday 20 November 2015
QD Vision closes new funding round adding Tsing Capital and BASF Venture Capital as investors
QD Vision has announced a new round of investment led by Tsing Capital and BASF Venture Capital, prominent venture capital entities in Europe and China focused on innovative cleantech...
Thursday 5 November 2015
Acer sets up joint-venture venture capital in China
Acer, in line with promoting its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) business, has established joint-venture venture capital of CNY100 million (US$15.75 million) in Chongqing City, western...
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Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research