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Huanggang Port blueprint: institutional innovation and global integration for the Greater Bay Area
The opening of the reconstructed Huanggang Port on October 12 marks a transformative milestone in the infrastructural and economic integration of the Greater Bay Area. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Originally established in the late 1980s, the…
China Insight: Chinese Brands Are Putting Aesthetics Before Business
From an incense house in historic Hangzhou to a third-generation gold jeweler opening in Nanjing, there is a shift taking place in China, with aesthetics becoming not just a brand language, but a business strategy. The business world remains…
Inside the triumph and trauma of Labor's $88b tax overhaul
It was a week before Treasurer Jim Chalmers was to announce the country's biggest tax shake-up in a quarter-century, and Diane Brown found herself receiving urgent messages. A senior Treasury official, Brown was the first point of call for major…
The next generation of Israeli entrepreneurs is in defense tech
For decades, Israel's technology story has been defined by its ability to turn military experience into commercial innovation. Cybersecurity is perhaps the clearest example. Young Israelis left elite military units with technological expertise…
U.S. private equity deal value was down 14.1% in Q3, PitchBook says
Private equity has been in a low-grade slowdown for years, locked in a Groundhog Day loop. “You hear it every year now,” said Kyle Walters, PitchBook analyst. “You heard it in 2023, where private equity said: ‘It could…
AI scale-up PhysicsX comes to Singapore with ambition to accelerate industrial innovation
SINGAPORE – As a race strategist, Jacomo Corbo helped the Renault F1 team win back-to-back double world championships with driver Fernando Alonso in 2005 and 2006. Now he is chief executive of a scale-up that offers a winning formula to…
AI FOMO driving some family offices into tech investments, survey suggests
Investment firms of ultra-wealthy families are feeling FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) about artificial intelligence, a new study suggests. While 85% of family offices cited AI as their top investment theme, three-quarters of respondents said they…
25-Year-Old Microsoft Engineer Quits Rs 1.9 Crore Job To Chase AI Startup Dream: 'Living Off My Savings'
Treasury has begun attracting paying customers and generated more than $6,000 in revenue. Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed A former Microsoft engineer quit a $200,000+ job to start his AI startup Treasury He built Treasury, an AI money…
VC fund backed by Zampatti and Forrest families looks to raise $50m
A venture capital fund that invests in female-founded startups, and is backed by some of Australia's most high-profile family offices, is looking to raise $50 million in fresh funds. Scale Investors, run by JBWere alumni Samar Mcheileh and Chelsea…
My cofounder and I were rivals at hackathons. At 21, I put college on hold to build a startup with him.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Loong Ng, 21, the cofounder of Makeable, a San Francisco-based startup. It's been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Vietnam and moved to Singapore when I was 9. As a kid, I…
Cooling innovation from a hot startup
This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Tokyo Updates website. As concerns over climate change and rising temperatures grow, finding practical solutions for keeping people safe and comfortable is…
Oh shit: Turns out I'm a storyteller after all
Some years back, it was briefly voguish for advertising creatives to describe themselves as storytellers. Not out of grandiosity. More an attempt to achieve escape velocity from a fading star, as the glow of the Mad Men era inexorably waned. I…
AI Founders Cheer Trump's Calls for the Industry to Police Itself on Safety | KQED
Tech Week comes to an end in San Francisco on Sunday, packing the city's restaurants this last week with venture capitalists and founders ebullient about the White House's stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don't do it.
GOP senator calls for FCC probe of ABC News over Trump sons-Anduril 'political hit job
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-OH, called on the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday to launch a formal investigation into ABC News after the network deleted and substantially revised a report involving President Donald Trump's sons and defense…
Government launch €1 billion initiative to help Irish businesses scale globally
A new €1 billion investment initiative aimed at helping create the next generation of Irish companies of scale has been launched by the Government. The new fund, which was announced by Finance Minister Simon Harris in the Budget, will be…
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