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Wednesday 19 September 2018
Vietnam focusing on smart city development, says FPT chairman
Facing the great waves of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Vietnam is keen on promoting e-government projects, and the government there has selected five main cities, including Hanoi,...
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Stay focused: Q&A with NXP executive Steve Owen
NXP Semiconductors has gone through several periods of restructuring since its departure from Philips, followed by privatization, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve Owen, executive...
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Wonders develops diverse smart city solutions with new techs
Wonders Information, a major smart city service provider in Shanghai, China, is aggressively utilizing such newly emerging technologies as cloud computing, big data, IoT, and mobile...
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Maximizing data value for smart production: Q&A with Lenovo VP Tian Rihui
After experiencing a big tech stride from PC networking to mobile networking, people will embrace a larger stride evolving from mobile networks into smart ones amid rapid developments...
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Taiwan startups should eye applications combining hardware, software, says Gwong Lee, managing director of Translink Capital
Successfully starting his own business twice, Gwong Lee, managing director, Translink Capital, sold his second firm for a high price 15 months after its establishment and he was named...
Monday 10 September 2018
Taiwan biotech can take off by overcoming challenges, says Frank Kung, founder of Vivo Capital
Having started three businesses, two of which successfully went public, founder of Vivo Capital Frank Kung set foot in the biotech sector in the 1970s. Thanks to Kung's decades of...
Friday 7 September 2018
Investments in startups provide good opportunities for large enterprises, says Jackie Yang, co-founder of Translink Capital
Co-founder of Translink Capital Jackie Yang has accumulated 21 years of experience in venture capitalism since he first set foot in the field in 1996. Having witnessed the rise and...
Monday 3 September 2018
New Taipei keen on becoming smart city, says deputy mayor
New Taipei City, the largest municipality in northern Taiwan, has been selected by Intelligent Community Forum, an international organization, as one of the global top-7 smart cities...
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...