Startup news, Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s tech, startup and VC news, as covered in the English-language online press across December 2019.
Our Hong Kong tech summaries focus mainly on the city’s early-stage startup space, regardless of industry, covering fintech, e-commerce, digital payments and more, alongside its relationship with mainland China, particularly.
- Hong Kong: Lynk raises undisclosed funding with knowledge-as-a-service platform connecting customers with advisor expertise and insights
- What was learnt from Alibaba’s Hong Kong listing? It sounded the end of the principle of one share, one vote
- Hong Kong: Kr Space, Beijing-HQ co-working space and China competitor to WeWork, to shut down its Hong Kong Time Square location
- Hong Kong: Hang Seng Bank to unveil 600 cardless ATMs, powered by NFC and requiring only a mobile phone to withdraw money
- Hong Kong: Area28 secures $2.15M backing with cloud collaboration platform and game engine, aiming to mitigate legacy methods for game development
- A look at why Valve’s Steam gaming service appears to be censoring Hong Kong protest-themed games
- Hong Kong: WeLab fintech raises $156M to launch WeLab Bank in 2020
- MIT Review unveils Innovators Under 35 list for the Asia-Pacific region, featuring 20 innovators, inventors and pioneers
- Hong Kong: TravelFlan raises $7M with concierge chatbot serving as travel booking platform, offering recommendations and experiences for users
- An intro to 8 Asian food-tech startups working on the future of food, from meatless meat to sustainability
- Hong Kong: Apps and websites spring up to advise residents on which businesses support the protests, and which are pro-Beijing
- Hong Kong Monetary Authority publishes ‘Reshaping Banking with Artificial Intelligence’ report, to help the industry understand risks and potential of AI
- China: Clumsy propaganda game released based on HK protests against Chinese Communist Party, built around players attacking protesters
- China Blockchain Report now available from Hong Kong’s Forkast News
- One Country, One Censor: How China undermines media freedom in Hong Kong and Taiwan – from the Committee to Protect Journalists
- An intro to Headsup, motorbike helmet that connects to smartphones via Bluetooth, providing communication, navigation and music
- Monetary authorities of Thailand and Hong Kong to launch 2-tier digital token, in move towards prototype for cross-border fund transfers between the two
- Thailand: An intro to the 10 batch-2 startups backed by 500 TukTuks
Other subject-specific news from December 2019:
Blockchain in Asia • Crypto news, Asia • AI news • Fintech in Asia
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