———–Advert———– Bristol’s business partnership with Guangzhou has been further strengthened with the announcement of a major new development initiative between the two cities. Under the terms of a new Memorandum of Understanding signed at the Mansion House in Bristol on Monday, Bristol Global Partnership will become the UK’s first representative office of the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou […]
Teams of students from Queen Mary University of London and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications took part in a challenge to hack robots to make them identify hot and coloured lanterns. The Design and Build Winter Hack workshop was the first Joint Programme Innovation Centre initiative and was held in the Electronics Lab at […]
Sarah Yam (任熙雯) of reddigitalchina.com As one of the biggest luxury markets in the world, China has immense potential purchasing power in the luxury industry. The position has still not changed despite many rumours and news on Chinese economy and luxury industry slowdown reported this year. According to Dean of Fortune Character Institute’s “2015 China Luxury […]
Steven Millward We all know by now that WeChat is a messaging app – and that it’s huge. And we know that stickers are a big part of it. But there’s so much more to WeChat that it can be difficult to convey to someone who’s not familiar with the full range of things that […]
We’ve all heard of Nest, Oculus Rift, Pebble, Dropcam, and SmartThings – but what are the hottest hardware startups coming out of China? Here’s Tech in Asia’s pick of 5 of China’s best making waves with their gadgets. They’re cool, they’re smart – and they’re mostly cheaper than their Western counterparts. By Steven Millward 1. Xiaomi […]
For many years, the conventional wisdom in the tech world is that the majority of digital innovation has arrived from Silicon Valley in California in the form of companies such as Apple and Google. However, recently there have been a few trailblazing Chinese companies that look set to upset the West’s dominance in the digital […]
Chinese computer company Lenovo announced yesterday that Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google is complete. The 2.9 billion (US dollars) acquisition of the Motorola brand and Motorola’s portfolio of innovative smartphones like Moto X, Moto G, Moto E and the DROIDTM series, as well as the future Motorola product roadmap, positions Lenovo as the […]
can stock by C. Custer Yesterday, Sina Tech published a fascinating op-ed by Chinese blogger Huang Jingyang. His piece concerns the problems he was confronted with while trying to teach his elderly, illiterate mother to use a smartphone. While it’s interesting in its own right and may provide some lessons for China’s smartphone makers, I […]
We’ve all heard of Nest, Oculus Rift, Pebble, Dropcam, and SmartThings – but what are the hottest hardware startups coming out of China? Here’s Tech in Asia’s pick of 5 of China’s best making waves with their gadgets. They’re cool, they’re smart – and they’re mostly cheaper than their Western counterparts. By Steven Millward 1. Xiaomi […]
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