October 2019
A brief collection of tech, startup and funding news from Taiwan in October of 2019, as covered in the English-language online press.
- Taiwan: Gogoro vs Kymco, a battle for the growing electric scooter market – a startup vs an industry giant
- Taiwan: “Currently, 48% of all online transactions are mobile-based, and that number is expected to reach 61% by 2022”
- Taiwan: Umbo Computer Vision secures $8M with AI-powered video security cameras, systems and platform
- Taiwan flag emoji disappears from Apple iPhone keyboard, further evidence of big tech’s failure to support democracy in the face of CCP influence operations
- Taiwan: 2019 Meet Taipei startup festival set for November 14-16
- Taiwan: Appier, SoftBank-backed AI startup, acquires Japan’s Emotion Intelligence for tech that encourages online shoppers to buy now
- Taiwan: An overview of the government’s support for the autonomous vehicle industry
- Taiwan: HTC has launched its latest blockchain phone, the Exodus 1s, allowing users to run a full Bitcoin node
- Taiwan: An intro to newly-launched Startup Terrace, aiming to link the local startup ecosystem with the world and already hosting 15 international accelerators
- Taiwan: China’s information war ramps up as election nears, using proxies around the world and, ironically, platforms banned in China
- Singapore’s Liquid Group and Taiwan’s ESUN Bank partner for cashless payments via customers’ preferred domestic mobile payment apps in either market
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