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Wednesday 11 July 2018
YouCam beauty apps most downloaded for virtual makeup
YouCam beauty apps offered by Taiwan-based Perfect Corp have become the world's most downloaded beauty apps, scoring over 600 million global app downloads, with global beauty and...
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Taiwan firms urged to invest in commercialization of genome editing
While Taiwan electronics industry is aggressively mulling over how to tap the huge business opportunities to be created by quantum computers, the country's Ministry of Science and...
Friday 6 July 2018
AI startup Umbo boosts campus security with smart video systems
While education authorities in Taiwan and many other countries are promoting unwalled campuses, campus security is emerging as a major concern, and smart video security systems offered...
Thursday 5 July 2018
AWS Greengrass enables NAS devices to perform edge computing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has kept enhancing its Greengrass software to extend its cloud capabilities to local devices, and the latest development is that the software can be incorporated...
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Advantech, partners launch smart medical IoT solutions
Taiwan-based IPC and automation solutions specialist Advantech is taking a big stride forward in promoting the combination of IoT and smart healthcare in the form of SRP (solution-ready...
Tuesday 3 July 2018
IoT startup Ayla Networks expecting fast expansion
IoT (Internet of Things) startup Ayla Networks has posted exponential revenue growths since 2015 and expects fast expansion in the next two years after acquiring US$130 million in...
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Taiwan vows efforts to become global blockchain development hub
Taiwan's national development and financial supervision authorities have announced policy support for turning the country into a global blockchain industry hub, and a separation principle...
Monday 2 July 2018
IPC maker Nexcom teams up with academics on robotics education
Taiwan's leading IPC maker Nexcom International has, through its subsidiary AIoT Cloud, teamed up with 16 domestic universities and research labs to carry out a "robotics" education...
Friday 29 June 2018
Taiwan needs internationalized talent, says Wretch Chien, AME Cloud Venture principal
Wretch Chien, principal of AME Cloud Venture, was himself an entrepreneur when he founded a community website Wretch.cc in Taiwan. Since then his career has taken several turns, taking...
Friday 29 June 2018
China semi capex to be larger than Europe and Japan combined in 2018, says IC Insights
IC Insights has forecast that China-headquartered companies will spend US$11.0 billion in semiconductor industry capex in 2018, which would represent 10.6% of the expected worldwide...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Entrepreneurs should aim at creating world-class products, says ASVDA CTO TC Wu
Currently the CTO of Taiwan's Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency (ASVDA), TC Wu had spent 35 years working in the bona fide Silicon Valley's semiconductor industry. He retired...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Taiwan firm sets up health examination matching platform
In an effort to better serve both the supply and demand sides involved in health examination, Taiwan-based Medicrowd Smarthealth has recently set up a medical service platform to...
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Taiwan must be prepared for entrepreneurship, says Acorn Campus Taiwan chairman Wu-Fu Chen
Chairman of Acorn Campus Taiwan Wu-Fu Chen, with a record of having founded 13 companies within a 15-year period and having all of them either acquired or listed, clearly showed his...
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Taiwan maker offers smart mattresses to detect sleep quality
Sleep quality detection entails big business potentials, prompting Taiwan makers to develop smart mattresses or wearable devices installed with sleep sensing systems to collect relevant...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Taiwan needs to build angel investor culture, says David Weng, CEO of Taiwania Capital
David Weng, CEO of national-level investment firm Taiwania Capital, worked in Silicon Valley for as long as 37 years with 20 years of them spent in the venture capital industry. He...