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Monday 23 July 2018
IoT combining AI, blockchain, CarTech to create huge opportunities, says Ayla Networks co-founder
IoT (Internet of Things) does not promise a turnkey solution serving all needs but is a wide variety of solutions tailored to meet different needs of multiple products and services,...
Wednesday 18 July 2018
Xilinx acquires China AI chip startup
Xilinx has acquired DeePhi Technology, a Beijing-based AI chip startup specializing in deep compression, pruning and system-level optimization for neural networks, according to the...
Monday 16 July 2018
Technology is only one of the ingredients to startup success, says Tally Liu
In a media career spanning nearly three decades, Tally Liu served as senior vice president of Knight Ridder, in charge of finances, operations, internal audit and new technologies...
Friday 13 July 2018
Tapping global blockchain, IoT opportunities: Q&A with OwlTing founder Darren Wang
Founded in 2010 as a Taiwan blockchain startup dedicated to e-commerce and blockchain services in global travel, food safety, social media platforms, and more, OwlTing has launched...
Friday 13 July 2018
Success is the mother of failure, says Sandy Chau, Acorn Campus co-founder
Sandy Chau, co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures as well as an active real estate investor, engages in investment undertakings throughout the United States and Greater China. His success...
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...