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Tuesday 24 December 2019
Voice recognition offers big potential for medical sector says Microsoft Research Asia executive
Medical application of voice recognition has large potential but must be integrated into medical practitioners' work flows, according to Eric Chang, senior director of technology...
Monday 23 December 2019
Blockchain-based DeFi gaining ground in financial upgrades, says Kyber CEO
Blockchain-based decentralized finance (DeFi) is gaining significant momentum, promising to be one of the most eye-catching FinTech solutions in 2020, according to Thomas Hu, founder...
Monday 23 December 2019
Corning Taiwan partners with university to set up startup accelerator
Corning Display Technologies Taiwan has partnered with Taidah Entrepreneurship Center under National Taiwan University (TEC NTU) to set up an accelerator to help startups develop...
Friday 20 December 2019
Blockchain to benefit foundry development, says Kyber CEO
Efforts by the blockchain industry will accelerate the development of the existing foundries, according to Thomas Hu, CEO of blockchain technology developer Kyber Capital.
Thursday 19 December 2019
Advice for startups at X Fail 2019
Mentors at accelerators or incubators have to consider failures possibly happening to startups due to infeasible business models, unmarketable products and services, according to...
Thursday 19 December 2019
iMarts offers multilingual translation of tourism information
iMarts Intelligent Technology has developed a smartphone-based solution for multilingual translation of tourism information such as restaurant menus and sight-seeing spots via QR...
Wednesday 18 December 2019
Kiwi Campus to produce service robots in Taiwan
Colombia-based Kiwi Campus, a startup developing service robots for use in university campuses, will cooperate with Taiwan-based metal-alloy chassis maker AVY Precision Technology...
Wednesday 18 December 2019
Taiwan autonomous vehicles as part of MaaS
As a tool for transforming transportation, autonomous vehicles are to be developed to become a part of MaaS (mobility as a service), according to the architect of Taiwan's law governing...
Wednesday 18 December 2019
SmartLabs to establish biomedical startup base in Taiwan
US-based accelerator SmartLabs will establish a biomedical entrepreneurship base at Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park, northern Taiwan, to support Taiwan-based biomedical startups,...
Wednesday 18 December 2019
GameMind helps banks, insurers in credit evaluation
AI-based precision marketing solution developer GameMind has introduced parameters for banks and insurance companies to evaluate credit for people without credit records, mostly students...
Monday 16 December 2019
Coretronic Intelligent Robotics testing surveillance drone systems at science park
Coretronic Intelligent Robotics (CIRC) is trialing two automatic surveillance drone systems for security patrols at the Tongluo site of Hsinchu Science Park, according to company...
Monday 16 December 2019
AI to help evaluation of life insurance policies
Law Insurance Broker, startup BravoAI and insurance marketing software developer GoUP Tech have cooperated to develop an AI-based solution for evaluating existing life insurance policies...
Friday 13 December 2019
ToF seeking demand outside of smartphones
While ToF (time of flight) 3D sensing technology is mostly used in rear cameras of smartphones and facial recognition currently, it has potential of being used in autonomous driving,...
Friday 13 December 2019
HD Maps Research Center in Taiwan starts operation
The Ministry of the Interior commissioned Department of Geomatics under Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University to set up High-definition (HD) Maps Research Center, and the center...
Wednesday 11 December 2019
XFail 2019 Conference to open in Taiwan
XFail 2019 Conference, an occasion for entrepreneurs to share their experiences of failure to improve startups' chance of success, will open in Taipei on December 14.