Hong Kong tech snapshot
for November 2024
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Deloitte: Finance 2025 revisited
- Hong Kong: ZA Bank adds cryptocurrency trading to services for retail clients, initially offering Bitcoin and Ethereum only / full item
- China’s Baidu is to trial Apollo Go robotaxis in Hong Kong as soon as year-end / full item
- Hong Kong: Gov’t raises $288M in spectrum auction, with China Mobile spending $137M, Hutchison Telecom spending $79M, and HKT and SmarTone also featuring / full item
- China Mobile is in talks to acquire HKBN, a major Hong Kong fibre and enterprise connectivity provider / full item
- Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands Web3 firm raised an additional $10M for Mocaverse, its platform for building open metaverse spaces, with an eye on consumer crypto adoption / full item
- HK-Singapore biotech firm, Avant, launches skincare range based on lab-grown marine peptides, addressing climate, animal welfare and traceability challenges / full item
- China’s Oppo smartphone giant and Hong Kong Polytechnic University are to launch a joint AI and imaging research centre, with Oppo pledging US$4.2M over 5 years / full item
- Hong Kong: A brief intro to Braillic, changing surgical practice with augmented reality tech that allows surgeons to precisely locate areas in the brain without invasive surgery / full item
- Hong Kong continues global digital assets hub bid with its first policy guidelines around the use of artificial intelligence in finance, and potential virtual assets tax break / full item
- Singapore’s Nium payments platform and JP Morgan’s Kinexys boost collaboration on data supply to validate bank accounts in int’l payments to Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong / full item
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 Conference
Critical technologies: November
- “For others like the Philippines with its 7,100 islands and Indonesia with 16,000,47 satellites offer one of the most cost-effective approaches to addressing digital exclusion…”
- China: A deep dive look at the ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ project, its component parts, considerations and dovetail projects…
- Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute completes procurement of its first full-stack quantum computer from Finland’s IQM, set for installation in Q2 2025…
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