Hong Kong will go all out to build an ecosystem for innovation and technology development by gathering talent with innovative perspectives, the financial secretary has said, after a dinner with US chipmaker Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang and other I&T experts on Saturday. In his weekly blog on Sunday, Paul Chan Mo-po shared a photograph of…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) joins former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, 2024. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images As Donald Trump celebrated his presidential victory early Wednesday morning, Elon Musk was right…
NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sociaaal, the fast-growing mobile app studio that specializes in building, buying, and publishing non-gaming apps for Gen Z, is pleased to announce it has secured $4 million in financing from Braavo Capital. The funding will be used to focus on expanding their publishing unit to further scale the business,…
Tesla unveils its “Cybercab” on October 10, 2024 in Burbank, California. After a decade of unfulfilled promises about driverless vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hyped the company’s Cybercab concept on Thursday night, showing off a low, silver two-seater with no steering wheels or pedals. Rolling up to the stage in a Cybercab almost an hour…
Asia-Pacific’s private capital sector could get support from Chinese government stimulus as well as greater development of other financial markets in the region, according to data provider Preqin. China’s contribution to the region’s market for private capital has tumbled significantly in recent years, but stimulus measures and reforms from Beijing could spark a turnaround, said…
Hong Kong technology venture-capital (VC) firm MindWorks Capital has finalised a new US dollar fund to invest in start-ups across the Greater Bay Area and Asia, defying an extended slump for China-focused private investments amid geopolitical headwinds. MindWorks closed a US$220 million new fund, with investors including sovereign wealth funds, a university endowment, asset managers,…
Hong Kong technology venture-capital (VC) firm MindWorks Capital has finalised a new US dollar fund to invest in start-ups across the Greater Bay Area and Asia, defying an extended slump for China-focused private investments amid geopolitical headwinds. MindWorks closed a US$220 million new fund, with investors including sovereign wealth funds, a university endowment, asset managers,…
Anthony Tan didn’t need to start a business to be rich. He grew up as the youngest of three sons in one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families. His father, Tan Heng Chew, is the president of Tan Chong Motor, a multinational automobile distributor founded by Tan’s grandfather in the 1950s, that’s publicly listed on the Kuala…
The Federal Supreme Court (STF) in Brazil suspends Elon Musk’s social network after it fails to comply with orders from Minister Alexandre de Moraes to block accounts of those being investigated by the Brazilian justice system. Cris Faga | Nurphoto | Getty Images X has to pay one last fine before the social network owned…
Wall Street rejoiced over this week’s interest rate cuts, but there’s another investor class that was just as enthusiastic: venture capitalists. The tech correction of the last couple of years has left many startup investors longing for the Federal Reserve’s bygone zero interest rate policy, or ZIRP, which helped fuel the industry’s boom in 2021…