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Chua Kong Ho
Chua Kong Ho is a former technology editor at the South China Morning Post.
We talked to Jianxiong Xiao, the founder and CEO of AutoX, a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles
Semiconductors have become the cornerstone technology of the information age and Taiwan has managed to carve out a leading industry position.
AutoX founder says it is an exciting time to be alive - finally we are ready to build a machine that can drive cars.
Apart from cultivating the local start-up scene, Singapore has also become a magnet for foreign technology firms.
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Razer is looking to capture the youth audience for gaming and translate in into dollars as they mature and need other services
SCMP visits one of China’s treatment centres for internet addicts more than a decade after such a disorder was classified as an official disease.
Budget accommodation can be touch-and-go in Southeast Asia, which RedDoorz sees as an opportunity by providing the guarantee of a “clean room with Wi-fi”.
Division-of-labour specialisation and replacement of human labour by robotics and machines will be difficult to roll back.
Ultra-fast 5G mobile networks will reduce latency and enable technologies such as autonomous driving and virtual reality, according to GGV Capital managing partner Jixun Foo.
Education and health care in China suffer from uneven distribution of resources and talent, resulting in a wave of new tech start-ups like Squirrel AI that aim to level the playing field
China is successfully executing new ideas in social media and the broader digital economy, which in turn are being ‘translated’ westwards by the likes of Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
The city is competing for talent, capital and start-ups with other hi-tech hubs like Singapore, Israel and Silicon Valley.
Singapore-based on-demand services app operator announced venture capital arm a year ago to invest in start-ups as it consolidates its position in transport, food delivery and financial services.
What makes Silicon Valley the global hub of innovation and will China ever catch up?
US tech giants have been lobbying against the Huawei ban, as they stand to lose billions in revenue from losing the Chinese giant as a customer.
In China, five of the country’s largest tech companies have already been operating virtual banks since 2014 and Hong Kong’s first virtual banking licences were issued in March.
Singapore counts both the US and China as its key trading partners, and many Southeast nations have been reluctant to push back on Huawei.
Silicon Valley was seeded with funding for military research at Stanford University.
The impact of the US trade blacklist on Huawei is beginning to bite as Huawei scraps its first new product launch following the blacklisting in mid-May
China’s Silicon Valley caught in crossfire of tech war as country’s most advanced technologies, from AI to drones and robotics, being developed in the area.
State surveillance camera makers largely benefited from the rise in demand for the technology after 9/11 terror attacks.
Analysing how one of China’s biggest live-streaming companies manages and censors the content from its 250 million monthly users, from cigarettes to cleavage, tattoos and protests.
The line between science fiction and reality is blurring fast with artificial intelligence being used to spot abnormal behaviour that may suggest criminal intent.
Advances in security and surveillance technologies mean the days of elderly guards manning posts at commercial and residential establishments are numbered.
A strong risk-taking culture, growing pool of talent, state support, and military training and applications have helped shape Israel’s hi-tech industry.
US President Donald Trump said he wants the US to ‘win through competition, not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies’.
Former surveillance chief says countries should base decisions on Chinese involvement in telecoms on technical expertise and risk assessment, not politics.
Globe Telecom network given ‘clean bill of health’ after extensive review by consultants from UK and Israel, CEO says.
Concerns over the increasing market dominance of China’s tech giants have simmered over the years.
