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Thursday 30 August 2018
Filling the gap in Acer digital signage business: Q&A with AOpen president Dale Tsai
Acer, which has been aggressively expanding into the enterprise market, participated in a private placement of AOpen's new shares in 2017 to strengthen its digital signage product...
Tuesday 28 August 2018
Transformation and diversification: Q&A with Logitech Greater China head Wolf Jiang
Peripherals vendor Logitech International has seen its business performance pick up significantly after moving to deepen its deployments in the gaming, music, smart home and video...
Monday 27 August 2018
Huami to expand into Asia Pacific smart wearable markets, says chairman
China-based Huami, a main ODM of Xiaomi's smart wrist bands and weight scales, launched its own-brand smartwatch, Amazfit, in Europe and US in September 2016 and has since sold over...
Monday 27 August 2018
National alliance needed to help Taiwan firms better tap IoT opportunities, says ITRI executive
As IoT and AI applications will enter a substantive growth period amid the imminent advent of the 5G era, Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)...
Friday 24 August 2018
Core mission for smart city is to solve problems, says Taoyuan mayor
Taoyuan City has been selected by Intelligent Community Forum as one of the global top-7 smart cities for two consecutive times. Cheng Wen-tsan, mayor of the northern Taiwanese city,...
Thursday 23 August 2018
Smart car era gives opportunity for latecomers with domain know-how, says professor
The advent of the smart car era is providing an overtaking opportunity for latecomers that can master domain know-how at the client end and know how to develop profitable product...
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Taiwan has advantages in developing healthcare innovations, says Acorn Campus co-founder Chester Wang
Co-chairman of SVT Angels and co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures, T Chester Wang taught college courses in Saudi Arabia and invested in real estate in Silicon Valley before he began...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Taiwan should encourage early-stage investments, says LuxNet chairman Hsing Kung
LuxNet chairman, Hsing Kung, has founded three companies. Among them, SDL was established in 1983, specializing in manufacturing optical communication devices. It was sold for US$41.1...
Monday 13 August 2018
Power supply maker Mean Well to penetrate deeper into industrial control and niche LED sectors: Q&A with company executives
Power supply product maker Mean Well is seeing steady growth in sales from the industrial power sector - a sector that it has been working in for over 30 years - as more factories...
Wednesday 1 August 2018
CEO with leadership is key to success for startup, says Chun P Chiu, senior advisor of InnoBridge
Technology only accounts for 25% of what makes a startup successful while the CEO's leadership can contribute to 50% of its success, said Chun P Chiu, national policy advisor to the...
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Taiwan startups should focus on 3 major directions, says Bob Lin, co-founder of Acorn Campus
Co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures Bob Lin started six businesses, three of which succeeded and the others failed. In addition to being an angel investor, Lin is also the author...
Monday 23 July 2018
IoT combining AI, blockchain, CarTech to create huge opportunities, says Ayla Networks co-founder
IoT (Internet of Things) does not promise a turnkey solution serving all needs but is a wide variety of solutions tailored to meet different needs of multiple products and services,...
Monday 16 July 2018
Technology is only one of the ingredients to startup success, says Tally Liu
In a media career spanning nearly three decades, Tally Liu served as senior vice president of Knight Ridder, in charge of finances, operations, internal audit and new technologies...
Friday 13 July 2018
Tapping global blockchain, IoT opportunities: Q&A with OwlTing founder Darren Wang
Founded in 2010 as a Taiwan blockchain startup dedicated to e-commerce and blockchain services in global travel, food safety, social media platforms, and more, OwlTing has launched...
Friday 13 July 2018
Success is the mother of failure, says Sandy Chau, Acorn Campus co-founder
Sandy Chau, co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures as well as an active real estate investor, engages in investment undertakings throughout the United States and Greater China. His success...