Latest Hong Kong publications

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has confirmed its acquisition of the Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper the South China Morning Post, for £175 million. The deal includes licences for other SCMP group media including Hong Kong publications of Elle, Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar. Critics have argued that the acquisition will allow China a tighter hold over Hong… Read More

Designers in Hong Kong have come up with a concept for air-purifying robots which ingest carbon dioxide, cleaning city air and producing fuel. NAS-DRA, the team behind the ‘parasitic robots’, has explained that these devices would attach onto billboards in cities such as Hong Kong sucking in urban pollution during daylight hours through a carbon-absorbent polymer paint. At… Read More

Early in 2015 Chinese network provider 21Vianet will launch a new service in Hong Kong that lets participating mobile phone users ‘borrow’ connections over Wi-Fi from other users who may have a stronger data connection, boosting download speeds by more than 50% and even enabling connectivity in areas with no usable carrier signal. The new… Read More

A recently-launched mesh-networking app was downloaded to Hong Kong users 100,000 times in 24 hours after student leader Joshua Wong advised fellow activists that the government may switch off mobile networks as a pacification measure. FireChat, a mobile messaging app released in March, will default to local Bluetooth networks in the absence of other network connections. Of necessity… Read More

Cloud is a capability that banks will have to master in order to build an agility advantage according to one of Asia’s leading analysts. Writing in his blog, Frederic Giron, a vice president and principal analyst with Forrester in Singapore (pictured), describes some case studies of financial services companies. He said: “Cloud is a key… Read More