Aug 11, 2020 Tick tock, tick tock: Trump's headache-inducing executive order aimed at WeChat By Alex Roberts With 280 characters, Mr Trump can shake globe markets. With 992 words, you would expect earthquakes that rock the very foundations of...
Jul 21, 2020 Did Schrems deal a knock-out blow in a fight to which he was not invited? By Alex Roberts We have been watching for months as the world's superpowers spar for supremacy in a tech-shape boxing ring. In one corner of the squared...
Jul 19, 2020 Excitement, relief and disappointment: who would've thought China's data security law could be so emotive? By Alex Roberts I cannot deny it. I was excited to read the draft Data Security Law after it was released by Beijing's top legislators earlier this...
Jul 10, 2020 "Didital" currency – coming to China soon! By Alex Roberts When you want to pilot a new method of effecting secure payments in your fast-growing services industry, it is always useful to choose a...
Jul 09, 2020 Investors have the upper-hand as down-rounds appear By Niranjan Arasaratnam The number and value of global VC investments in tech in the first half of 2020 have been significantly down compared to 2019. Investors...
Jul 07, 2020 When a double negative does not equal a positive By Alex Roberts China’s new “negative list” has been released. Often an eagerly-awaited marker of reform in the world’s second largest economy, the...
Jul 01, 2020 Chinese Tech face new challenges in India By Niranjan Arasaratnam As tensions between China and India escalate, India has banned 59 Chinese mobile apps including TikTok and WeChat. This is a significant...
Jun 19, 2020 Cutting off tech’s nose to spite the West’s strategic face? By Alex Roberts The disruption of Covid-19 is subsiding in many markets (at least for now). Regulators are coming up for air. As predicted in our...
Jun 12, 2020 5G under scrutiny by “five eyes” but business blinks first By Alex Roberts The British Business Awards 2020 has just been launched by the British Chambers of Commerce here in China. It was great to be able to...
Jun 05, 2020 Is Singapore unanimously winning its contest with Hong Kong SAR to be Asia's top hub? By Alex Roberts As described in the quoted article from the FT, Big Tech definitely continues to cheer the Lion City from ringside. And now, not just the...
May 28, 2020 Who ever thought that "data centre" could be the sexiest words in tech? By Alex Roberts Following on from China’s announcement last week of huge public sector investment in new technologies, China’s private sector doubles...
May 22, 2020 China's tech shopping spree may soon start, but who's written all the rules? By Alex Roberts China’s Two Meetings is a showpiece event every year. The annual political gathering sets economic targets and guides policy across the...
May 20, 2020 Tech company valuations drop in the midst of Covid-19 By Linklaters Following its most recent funding round last June, Monzo is raising a new round of cash from investors at an almost 40 per cent. discount...
May 13, 2020 Global consolidation in food delivery sector continues with potential takeover of Grubhub by Uber By Derek Tong The approach by Uber to acquire Grubhub follows hot on the heels of the £6bn merger of Just Eat and Dutch firm Takeaway.com, which...
May 11, 2020 Supply chain reaction to COVID-19 By Alex Roberts Loving this article on some of the measures taken by Samsung to mitigate the threats to its supply chain following the COVID-19 outbreak....
Apr 29, 2020 Luckin’s issues could be an injection of caffeine that invigorates more compliance across China tech By Alex Roberts Traditionally those outside China may have had the perception that compliance standards in China were patchy, not what they are used to...