China’s foreign ministry has condemned the United States’ blacklisting of 33 Chinese entities to a trade blacklist, as relations between the two nations threaten to nosedive. The US Department of Commerce added…
How Will Europe Hold off the Chinese Tech Spending Spree?
In 2017 Canyon Bridge, a Cayman Islands-registered investor, bought Imagination Technologies, one of the UK’s premier chipmakers. Surprisingly, the deal didn’t incur the wrath of British politicians. Just weeks previous US President…
Taiwan is Beating the Virus – and Tech is on its Frontline
Taiwan is an nation of almost 24 million people, squeezed onto an island the size of Maryland. It’s barely a hundred miles from China with regular flights to Wuhan, the generally-accepted epicenter…
Heavyweights Join China’s Blockchain Committee
Tencent, Huawei and JD.com are among 71 companies the Communist Party of China has added to a new blockchain committee, which Beijing hopes will set standards for a national ledger. The catchily-named…
China Tech Investments Down 31% in Q1 2020, as Corona Continues to Steamroll Economy
Investments into China’s technology industry fell by 31% in the first quarter of 2020, as the COVID-19 outbreak battered the country’s economy. VC into the sector was $16.8 billion this Q1, compared…
China is Showing How Web Censorship is a Public Health Risk
Last week China unveiled a new law effectively banning its Internet users from posting negative content about their country. The Provisions on the Governance of the Online Information Content Ecosystem rule, announced…
OurCrowd Summit Opens with MedTech Focus, amid Coronavirus Havoc
The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit has opened in Jerusalem, Israel, with a focus on medical technology – as the Coronavirus causes havoc across the tech world. Speaking at a press conference, OurCrowd…
Coronavirus Wreaks Havoc on Chinese Markets, as Tech Responds to Outbreak
Investors wiped around $420 billion from China’s premier stock index, as commodities were dumped amid the country’s accelerating Coronavirus outbreak. The Shanghai Composite tumbled almost 8% on Monday—the first day of trading…
TikTok Founder Trials Resso, a Spotify Challenger
The parent company of social media platform TikTok has launched a brand it hopes will challenge Spotify in the online music streaming market. ByteDance, the Beijing-based startup whose success with TikTok, a…
Ant Financial to Open $1bn SEA and India Fund
Ant Financial, part of the Alibaba Group and formerly known as Alipay, will invest heavily in the future of Southeast Asia and India with the creation of a $1 billion fund dedicated…