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"E pur si muove"
"And, yet it moves" --- Galileo 1633
Jack Lau
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The Fastest Growing 5000 Small Medium Sized and Young Companies : What can we learn from them?
Everywhere people are talking about Innovation and Startups. It hardly goes by a day without seeing some cool ideas. And, while we often...
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2016年9月27日讀畢需時 2 分鐘


Open Source Software and Growth for All - We cannot just "download" and not "upload&q
Over the weekend, a list of numbers flashed across our screen as we were doing our research. In particular, I was reading through the...
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2016年9月23日讀畢需時 9 分鐘


A Book to Read: Mindset
We probably should just stick with the topic of technology development. And, guilty indeed we are to digress. But, we do want to talk...
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2016年9月17日讀畢需時 2 分鐘
No more seat on the Mobile Payment bus?
Recently, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, there is a program to help freshman and sophomore students get real life...
Jack Lau
2016年9月8日讀畢需時 4 分鐘


China Tech Companies Listed in the US: What Now?
In the last post, we briefly mentioned the enormous size of Tencent and Baidu. Yes, what a cliché. But, sometimes people forget that...
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2016年8月10日讀畢需時 3 分鐘
US$550M Investment by Tencent/Baidu/JD into BitAuto
The number is such so huge sometimes. Over the past weekend, a post IPO funding round was announced in which a group including Tencent,...
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2016年8月10日讀畢需時 2 分鐘


2 Consumer Play: YeeChoo (Hong Kong)/ Carousell (Singapore) 兩間非常有前途為消費者成立的科技公司 。 一間在香港的 Yeechoo 一間
I know most people are probably focusing on the Didi/Uber China deal. Indeed a big deal. Combined the new Didi is worth more than US$36...
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2016年8月2日讀畢需時 3 分鐘
Facebook's Profit Jumped to US$2 billion/quarter up from $1B just 6 months ago; and Google,Amazo
When a company is worth more than US$1 billion , we call that company a "Unicorn". What do we call a company whose profit alone is a...
Jack Lau
2016年7月29日讀畢需時 2 分鐘


Financial Viability of a Domain/Blog/Website Hosting Agency
Ever since I have started writing this little blog of mine (thank you for reading, this is a small experiment on my part), I have been...
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2016年7月26日讀畢需時 2 分鐘
IKEA and Smart Shopping....Really?
Just finished a day shopping at IKEA --- one of my most favorite stores. Have always admired the quality of the product. And, the...
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2016年7月25日讀畢需時 2 分鐘
Pokemon Go in China and Lenovo
While Pokemon Go has not arrived at most parts of Asia, people are waiting impatiently. And, the persistent questions people asked are: ...
Jack Lau
2016年7月24日讀畢需時 2 分鐘
Dell-EMC US$67 Billion Deal --- relevant to anyone here?
US$67 billion is a lot of money. This is probably one of the largest deals we have seen and will see for a while. And, does it have...
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2016年7月23日讀畢需時 2 分鐘
ARM, a successful UK university spin off, sold to Softbank for US$32B. They started nearly the same
I have always had tremendous respect for ARM, the fabless company, which has designed the core processor for almost everything we use...
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2016年7月19日讀畢需時 2 分鐘


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Role of University research in Southern China
For the longest time, probably before the millennium, conventional wisdom has it that a technology hub must be powered by some local but...
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2016年7月18日讀畢需時 3 分鐘


This is 2016! Why aren't you riding on the technology wave in Southern China?
Over the past few years, it seems that we as a general public has suddenly been fascinated with the possibility of wealth creation...
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2016年7月11日讀畢需時 2 分鐘


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