Hong Kong’s finance minister has dismissed concerns that foreigners are avoiding the city because of its strong connections to the mainland Chinese market amid the trade war, saying that investors are showing their confidence with their capital. At the “Summer Davos” forum on Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said Hong Kong’s strengths lay in…
The New York Fashion Tech Lab (NYFTL) has named this year’s cohort of companies transforming the fashion industry and retail sector. The community-driven platform returns for its 12th year of accelerating the women-led startups developing innovations at the intersection of fashion and technology. Cofounded by venture catalyst Springboard Enterprises, the nonprofit is designed for early-to-growth-stage…
A Europe-based Huawei executive has decried policies to block the Chinese tech company’s entry into certain markets and warned that this could limit the development of the European artificial intelligence industry. Tony Jin Yong, Huawei’s vice-president for Europe, said he was puzzled by measures to form “exclusive groups” among “like-minded countries”, though he did not…