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How ZTE is committed to 5G technological innovation
According to Mr Wang Xiyu, CTO of XZTE, the company has been committed to 5G technological innovation for digital transformation push. Read more…
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New Asia-Pacific FinTech network targeting innovation
The new Asia-Pacific #FinTech Network aims to facilitate greater collaboration throughout the region and encourage #innovation across borders. Read more…
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Research identifies how innovation drives Pay-TV opportunities
In its third year, the Pay-TV Innovation Forum seeks to identify how innovation is driving opportunities for content owners and service providers around the world as they face a disrupted market. The findings are based Read more…
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Shanghai’s technology innovation plans to be published
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will likely publish rules for Shanghai’s planned “technology innovation board” in January, and will launch the new tech board before June, the 21st Century Business Herald reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified Read more…
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China could top Silicon Valley (or parts of it) as an innovation center: VCs
The US government’s ban on ZTE buying US technology may have been lifted, but that issue – along with the ongoing US-China dispute over trade tariffs – has raised broader questions over China’s growing dominance Read more…
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Friday Futures: the birth of innovation, flying taxis and drone swarms
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: the birth of innovation; smart doorbells; copper futures; flying taxis; drone swarms and the leaning Read more…
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There’s a bright side to innovative disruption if you know where to look
Sometimes, in this most innovative of innovative industries, it is hard to see any positives. In fact, the negatives seem to keep on coming. Leaving aside DataGate, the effects of which will take a long Read more…
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China launches new scheme to attract outside tech firms
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s State Council announced on Friday a pilot scheme to encourage technology, bio-tech and high-end manufacturing tech firms to issue shares in mainland centres Shanghai and Shenzhen, pitting them against the offshore Read more…
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Cannabis is now an ecosystem driving IoT innovation. No, really!
Whatever you may think of cannabis (and we’re like pretty OK with it, right?), it is not only acceptable but creating its own vast ecosystem. This, in turn, is triggering innovation, start-ups and really cool Read more…
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Innovation is not about being faster – it’s about being weird
Real innovation comes from being weird. Innovation is not about simply being faster, better or cheaper. That is what competition or efficiency are about. This has been true since the invention of the wheel, or Read more…