https://www.scmp.com/rss/142320/feed Bien has worked at the Post since 2000. He has served as Post Magazine's technology editor and Technology Post's deputy editor. He was a guest host on Tech Specs in TVB’s Money Magazine show. He won runner-up, Best News Writing, at the 2008 Hong Kong News Awards. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ann Cao,Bien Perez Ann Cao,Bien Perez E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding expects to stay ahead of its Chinese Big Tech peers in artificial intelligence-related capital expenditure, as the firm’s AI and cloud computing unit posted its fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth. Alibaba Cloud on Tuesday reported a 34 per cent year-on-year revenue growth to 39.8 billion yuan (US$5.6 billion) in the three months ended September 30, as the Hangzhou-based parent’s overall revenue in its financial second quarter reached... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3334253/alibaba-lead-ai-capital-spending-among-chinas-big-tech-firms-amid-strong-market-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3334253/alibaba-lead-ai-capital-spending-among-chinas-big-tech-firms-amid-strong-market-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:30:09 +0000 Coco Feng,Bien Perez Coco Feng,Bien Perez When Dutch authorities seized control of chipmaker Nexperia almost two months ago, it resulted in a clash between the head office in Nijmegen and the company’s mainland China unit, which vowed to operate and meet orders as an independent enterprise. That dispute also exposed the vulnerability of global car supply chains, as any disruption in Nexperia’s shipments of so-called legacy chips would affect nearly every major European carmaker, as well as those in Japan and the United States. Here are... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333737/timeline-sino-dutch-row-over-control-chipmaker-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333737/timeline-sino-dutch-row-over-control-chipmaker-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:00:10 +0000 Coco Feng,Bien Perez Coco Feng,Bien Perez A swift resolution of the Sino-Dutch row over the control of Chinese-owned, Netherlands-based chipmaker Nexperia is not likely, according to analysts, which means semiconductor supplies for the global car industry remain uncertain. That assessment comes a day after China’s Ministry of Commerce accused The Hague of “going its own way, without taking concrete steps to resolve the issue”, even as the mainland regulator considered exempting some Nexperia orders from an export ban that it imposed... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331648/nexperia-crisis-fate-dutch-chipmaker-global-car-industry-hangs-balance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331648/nexperia-crisis-fate-dutch-chipmaker-global-car-industry-hangs-balance?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:00:13 +0000 Ben Jiang,Bien Perez Ben Jiang,Bien Perez DeepSeek, extolled by some as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, now has a bull’s eye on its back, as the start-up is being touted as China’s secret weapon in the artificial intelligence (AI) war with the US. The Hangzhou-based company sent shock waves across Wall Street and Silicon Valley for developing AI models at a fraction of the cost compared with OpenAI and Meta Platforms, which prompted US President Donald Trump to call the breakthrough a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3296503/deepseeks-tech-breakthrough-hailed-china-answer-win-ai-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3296503/deepseeks-tech-breakthrough-hailed-china-answer-win-ai-war?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:00:15 +0000 Ben Jiang,Bien Perez Ben Jiang,Bien Perez Chinese start-up DeepSeek has emerged as “the biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena in 2025, just days after the firm made waves in the global artificial intelligence (AI) community with its latest release. That assessment came from Jim Fan, a senior research scientist at Nvidia and lead of its AI Agents Initiative, in a New Year’s Day post on social-media platform X, following the Hangzhou-based start-up’s release last week of its namesake LLM, DeepSeek... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3293050/meet-deepseek-chinese-start-changing-how-ai-models-are-trained?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3293050/meet-deepseek-chinese-start-changing-how-ai-models-are-trained?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:00:13 +0000 Bien Perez Bien Perez The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Hong Kong is on the rise, as enterprises look to deploy advanced computing infrastructure in their premises and in the city’s data centres, according to industry experts at a recent tech event. “We understand that businesses are eager to jump on the AI bandwagon to improve their efficiency and performance, but the challenge is how to drive efficiencies and optimise processes without manual intervention and complexity,” said Jackie Kwong, general... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3286216/hong-kong-enterprise-ai-adoption-sees-upswing-back-government-policy-support?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3286216/hong-kong-enterprise-ai-adoption-sees-upswing-back-government-policy-support?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:00:09 +0000 Wency Chen,Bien Perez Wency Chen,Bien Perez Hong Kong has the potential to transform itself into an artificial intelligence (AI) applications development hub, on the back of the government’s forward-looking policy initiatives and as part of the broader information technology ecosystem in the Greater Bay Area, according to a panel discussion at InnoTech Forum 2024. “It’s almost essential for Hong Kong to become an AI development hub in the next three to five years,” said Sony Han, IBM iX leader at IBM Consulting Hong Kong, in a panel... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3283002/innotech-forum-hong-kong-has-potential-become-ai-applications-development-hub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3283002/innotech-forum-hong-kong-has-potential-become-ai-applications-development-hub?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:26:29 +0000 Ben Jiang,Bien Perez Ben Jiang,Bien Perez Huawei Technologies plans to accelerate the development of a reliable artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem to promote the technology’s broad adoption in enterprises across various industries, according to deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun. “Huawei has years of experience with its own intelligent transformation, and we’ve been helping a wide range of industries go intelligent, too,” Xu said in his keynote speech at Thursday’s opening of the Huawei Connect 2024 event, which runs until Saturday in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3279382/huawei-step-ai-ecosystem-development-across-industries-despite-us-tech-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3279382/huawei-step-ai-ecosystem-development-across-industries-despite-us-tech-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:12:38 +0000 Baidu’s decision to terminate its acquisition of social media firm Joyy’s live-streaming business shows the internet search giant’s sharpened focus on artificial intelligence (AI) development initiatives, according to analysts, as Chinese companies race to cash in on the technology and help boost the country’s economic recovery. In a Hong Kong stock exchange filing on Monday, Baidu said its affiliate Moon SPV exercised the right to terminate the US$3.6 billion acquisition of YY Live from... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3247038/baidus-move-cancel-yy-live-acquisition-amid-fierce-market-competition-tougher-regulation-boon-firms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3247038/baidus-move-cancel-yy-live-acquisition-amid-fierce-market-competition-tougher-regulation-boon-firms?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:30:20 +0000 When asked by the South China Morning Post in March about Huawei Technologies’ plans to release new 5G smartphones, deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun firmly dismissed such a notion to hundreds of journalists, analysts and clients who attended the US-blacklisted company’s annual conference in Shenzhen. “If you’re expecting to buy a 5G smartphone made by Huawei, [all of us] need to wait for approval from the US Department of Commerce,” Xu said. “We can produce 5G smartphones when they license 5G... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3236295/huaweis-5g-smartphone-comeback-advanced-chip-wrapped-secrecy-releases-chokehold-us-sanctions-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3236295/huaweis-5g-smartphone-comeback-advanced-chip-wrapped-secrecy-releases-chokehold-us-sanctions-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Sep 2023 03:00:11 +0000 Huawei Technologies’ latest 5G smartphone has thrown an intense spotlight on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) after a third-party teardown of the handset indicated that mainland China’s top contract chip maker was behind its advanced processor, which could prompt US government action for violating existing trade sanctions. SMIC’s share price has gained nearly 20 per cent in Hong Kong and 15 per cent in Shanghai since Huawei launched presales of its new Mate 60 Pro last week,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3233520/tech-war-top-chinese-chip-maker-smic-under-spotlight-breakthrough-5g-processor-used-huaweis-latest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3233520/tech-war-top-chinese-chip-maker-smic-under-spotlight-breakthrough-5g-processor-used-huaweis-latest?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Sep 2023 02:00:16 +0000 The China-made chip at the heart of the Mate 60 Pro phone launched by Huawei Technologies in the past week marks a clear win for the country in its attempts to defy Washington’s sanctions, but analysts say it is premature for Beijing to declare victory in the ongoing technology war. Shenzhen-based Huawei, which has been denied access to advanced US origin chip technologies since 2020, has said little on the technology behind the chip in its latest phone, triggering an industry guessing game... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3233514/tech-war-huawei-helps-china-win-symbolic-victory-defying-washingtons-sanctions-headwinds-remain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3233514/tech-war-huawei-helps-china-win-symbolic-victory-defying-washingtons-sanctions-headwinds-remain?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:30:11 +0000 China Unicom, the country’s third-largest wireless network operator, expects to complete technical research and launch early applications for 6G technology by 2025, boosting hopes of rolling out the next-generation mobile technology by the dawn of the next decade. That timeline was revealed by China Unicom chairman and chief executive Liu Liehong, 55, on the sidelines of the China Development Forum (CDF), a two-day conference that opened on Saturday and regarded as Beijing’s answer to the World... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3214848/china-introduce-early-6g-mobile-applications-2025-putting-country-track-rolling-out-commercial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3214848/china-introduce-early-6g-mobile-applications-2025-putting-country-track-rolling-out-commercial?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Mar 2023 10:37:03 +0000 An agreement between the United States, Japan and the Netherlands to restrict exports of “some” advanced chip-making equipment to China has triggered debate over the scale of damage that this could inflict on Beijing’s semiconductor self-sufficiency drive, with billions of dollars of investments at stake. That deal was reached in talks that concluded in Washington on Friday, creating a powerful alliance that will undercut Beijing’s ambitions to build its own domestic chip capabilities, according... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3208492/tech-war-us-japan-netherlands-alliance-triggers-debate-over-scale-its-possible-impact-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3208492/tech-war-us-japan-netherlands-alliance-triggers-debate-over-scale-its-possible-impact-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:00:15 +0000 The end of the 14-year licensing agreement between Chinese video gaming giant NetEase and US game publisher Blizzard Entertainment has raised speculation on the potential next moves of the two companies, as gamers on the mainland mourn a break-up that will become official early next year. Hangzhou-based NetEase and Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of video game holding company Activision Blizzard, on Thursday separately announced that the publishing licence covering several... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3200187/netease-blizzard-break-raises-speculation-next-china-operator-world-warcraft-other-us-games-amid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3200187/netease-blizzard-break-raises-speculation-next-china-operator-world-warcraft-other-us-games-amid?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:30:12 +0000 Bien Perez Bien Perez Hong Kong’s efforts to build a digital-assets industry and cryptocurrency hub to rival Singapore is not expected to be set back by the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, which filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States on Friday. “I see Hong Kong stepping up in the wake of this latest crisis in the crypto industry,” Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of venture capital and gaming firm Animoca Brands, said in a Zoom video interview on Saturday. “This is an opportunity for the city to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3199420/hong-kongs-time-step-fallout-crash-crypto-exchange-ftx-rattles-cryptocurrency-market-animocas-yat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3199420/hong-kongs-time-step-fallout-crash-crypto-exchange-ftx-rattles-cryptocurrency-market-animocas-yat?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:02:15 +0000 When the Octopus card was launched in September 1997, this home-grown electronic payment system arguably became the most notable hi-tech application to come out of Hong Kong. It became a symbol of what could be accomplished in a city with world-class infrastructure, the rule of law, business-friendly policies and an expanding pool of skilled talent. Broad public acceptance enabled the contactless smart card to extend its use from the city’s public transport network to the retail sector, tolled... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3182445/will-nft-metaverse-developments-hong-kong-help-deliver-citys-next?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3182445/will-nft-metaverse-developments-hong-kong-help-deliver-citys-next?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:00:25 +0000 Turbidite, the tech venture backed by property giant New World Development, has partnered with Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co (AsiaSat) to deliver new data centre hosting services in Hong Kong amid growing demand across the Asia-Pacific. The two companies on Wednesday announced that they will provide hosting services, alongside satellite and ground-based network connectivity, from AsiaSat’s Tai Po Earth Station, located at the Tai Po Industrial Estate in the New Territories. AsiaSat, which... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3158043/new-world-backed-tech-venture-turbidite-enters-pact-asiasat-expand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3158043/new-world-backed-tech-venture-turbidite-enters-pact-asiasat-expand?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:00:18 +0000 China has long been recognised as the world’s biggest e-commerce market, driven by technology giants that helped revolutionise consumer spending behaviour in the second-largest economy behind the United States. The value of these Big Tech companies – led by e-commerce stalwarts Alibaba Group Holding, JD.com, Meituan, Pinduduo and Tencent Holdings – continued to rise last year, despite the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Benefiting from a global stock market rally among tech firms as... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3156719/chinas-e-commerce-crackdown-timeline-beijings-actions-bring-tech-giants?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3156719/chinas-e-commerce-crackdown-timeline-beijings-actions-bring-tech-giants?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:00:22 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3144314/its-all-data-how-didi-chuxings-us-ipo-ran-afoul-chinese-regulators?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3144314/its-all-data-how-didi-chuxings-us-ipo-ran-afoul-chinese-regulators?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000 The US Senate’s new legislation, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, lays out a wide-ranging strategy for the first time to contain China’s global expansion, providing a significant milestone as the relationship between the two economic and hi-tech superpowers deteriorate. “The legislation will have a profound effect on every Chinese technology firm,” said Cameron Johnson, an adjunct faculty instructor at New York University and a partner at Shanghai-based Tidal Wave Solutions. “This includes... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3128976/us-china-tech-war-washington-intensifies-pressure-beijing-proposed-new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3128976/us-china-tech-war-washington-intensifies-pressure-beijing-proposed-new?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:00:20 +0000 Xiaomi Corp, the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor, will step up efforts to clear its name after a US court suspended a Department of Defence (DOD) ban on American investments in the Chinese company. The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled against the DOD’s enforcement of the ban, which prohibits US investors from owning shares in Xiaomi because of its alleged ties with the Chinese military. “Xiaomi believes that the decision of designating it as a ‘Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3125318/xiaomi-pushes-clear-name-after-court-suspends-us-investment-ban-firm?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3125318/xiaomi-pushes-clear-name-after-court-suspends-us-investment-ban-firm?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Mar 2021 06:21:36 +0000 Hong Kong property giant New World Development has formed a joint venture that will establish a pan-Asian network of data centres in emerging markets, helping close the infrastructure gap with the West and connect a fast-growing population of digital consumers in the region. Called Turbidite and co-founded by telecommunications industry veterans Bill Barney and Wilfred Kwan, the venture will focus on developing so-called edge data centres, which are carrier-neutral and support the online... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3123752/new-world-backs-data-centre-venture-focused-developing-economies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3123752/new-world-backs-data-centre-venture-focused-developing-economies?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:00:24 +0000 ByteDance gets busy on IPO, search For a long time, China’s internet sector has been dominated by the triumvirate known as BAT – referring to online search kingpin Baidu, e-commerce leader Alibaba Group Holding, and video games and social media giant Tencent Holdings. In the past few years, however, another company has emerged in a position to take over the spot held by Baidu in that elite group, tech unicorn ByteDance. The Beijing-based start-up has rapidly grown on the back of its three most... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3122407/inside-china-tech-bytedance-baidu-plot-next-moves-ehang-encounters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3122407/inside-china-tech-bytedance-baidu-plot-next-moves-ehang-encounters?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:00:14 +0000 Sentiment improves for Alibaba Paraphrasing a famous quote from Abraham Lincoln, market sentiment is everything. And in the case of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, positive market sentiment is giving it a much-needed boost. Alibaba, the parent company of the South China Morning Post, is riding on that improved view of the firm amid preparation for a US$5 bond sale – its first foray into the international debt markets since 2017 – that has already received strong investment grade... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3120751/inside-china-tech-big-week-alibaba-kuaishous-trading-debut-pops-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3120751/inside-china-tech-big-week-alibaba-kuaishous-trading-debut-pops-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Feb 2021 06:00:23 +0000 Huawei Technologies Co’s former budget smartphone brand, Honor, will unveil its first new device as an independent company on Friday, serving as an example of how domestic enterprises tied to firms blacklisted by Washington can survive the US-China tech war. Huawei sold all of Honor’s assets in November to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology, a consortium of more than 30 agents and dealers of the budget smartphone vendor. The divestment was made to ensure that Honor’s business would... https://www.scmp.com/tech/gear/article/3118703/us-china-tech-war-moment-truth-looms-ex-huawei-unit-honor-new-smartphone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/gear/article/3118703/us-china-tech-war-moment-truth-looms-ex-huawei-unit-honor-new-smartphone?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:14:39 +0000 Recent advances in mobile technology have made black spots and dropped calls inside flats and buildings unacceptable for individual consumers and businesses, especially as more people work, study and get their entertainment online. Indoor 4G coverage is currently sufficient to meet most consumers’ mobile broadband needs, but it has serious limitations in terms of latency, capacity and uniform experience for more bandwidth-hungry programs and large-scale industrial applications. Those... https://www.scmp.com/tech/gear/article/3112624/how-will-broad-indoor-coverage-drive-global-5g-adoption?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/gear/article/3112624/how-will-broad-indoor-coverage-drive-global-5g-adoption?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Dec 2020 23:30:08 +0000 Hello, this is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. Puerto Rico’s massive space telescope, the Arecibo Observatory, has ended 57 years of astronomical discoveries after sustaining severe damage since August of this year. The 900-tonne instrument platform of the telescope, which was featured in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye starring Pierce Brosnan, collapsed on Tuesday. That has left China’s Five-hundred-metre Aperture... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3112620/inside-china-tech-fast-keeps-big-eye-space-after-arecibo-collapse?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3112620/inside-china-tech-fast-keeps-big-eye-space-after-arecibo-collapse?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Dec 2020 22:00:21 +0000 Hello, this is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. This November should have been a double-barrelled celebration for e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, which aimed for another record-breaking Singles’ Day sales campaign coupled with the successful initial public offering of financial technology affiliate Ant Group. While Chinese regulators last week halted Ant’s listing, setting back what was expected to be the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3109757/inside-china-tech-alibaba-leads-record-singles-day-sales-tech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3109757/inside-china-tech-alibaba-leads-record-singles-day-sales-tech?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:00:16 +0000 As the latest advance in mobile communications, 5G has been promised as the future of technology.  That development is expected to rev up digitization across traditional industries and spur major growth in the coming decade.  Initial commercial 5G mobile services were rolled out last year in South Korea, the United States, Australia, Britain, Switzerland, Spain and Monaco.  The roll-out of 5G mobile network services across China, with the world’s biggest internet user population and largest... https://www.scmp.com/tech/what-5g-means-world-and-you/article/3108280?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/what-5g-means-world-and-you/article/3108280?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:28:44 +0000 As the latest advance in mobile communications, 5G promises a new and improved era of network performance to support a broad range of applications for individual consumers and industries. The roll-out of 5G mobile network services across China, with the world’s biggest internet user population and largest smartphone market, is already forecast to spur new growth in the country’s information technology industry by 3.3 trillion yuan (US$491 billion) in the five years to 2024. That development is... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3108011/what-5g-and-how-will-it-change-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3108011/what-5g-and-how-will-it-change-world?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Nov 2020 23:15:11 +0000 HKBN, operator of Hong Kong’s second-largest fixed-line telecommunications network, plans to ramp up the bundling of services to its residential and enterprise users, as market competition intensifies amid the city’s pandemic-hit economy. That move, which leads a series of initiatives that HKBN announced on Friday, is expected to show how much the company has evolved after completing the integration of its latest major corporate acquisition since 2013, according to a company statement. In... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3108104/telecoms-giant-hkbn-ratchets-services-bundling-amid-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3108104/telecoms-giant-hkbn-ratchets-services-bundling-amid-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:15:15 +0000 Bien Perez Bien Perez Hello, this is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. China, the world’s largest mobile payments market, is poised to accelerate its march to a cashless society, as the country’s central bank moves closer to launch its sovereign digital currency. The digital yuan, technically known as the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) system, is managed privately by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) under a centralised system and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3107826/inside-china-tech-digital-yuan-bolster-mobile-payments-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3107826/inside-china-tech-digital-yuan-bolster-mobile-payments-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 31 Oct 2020 02:45:17 +0000 Hello, this is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. Amid rising tensions with Washington, Beijing has had to downplay some of the country’s technological catch-up efforts, such as the “Made in China 2025” policy road map. Sensing a threat to US global hi-tech dominance, the Trump administration had seized on the plan as an example of what it sees as unfair state intervention in China’s economy. In reality, however, China’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3104881/inside-china-tech-beijing-sharpen-countrys-rd-focus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3104881/inside-china-tech-beijing-sharpen-countrys-rd-focus?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:00:13 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. About eight years ago, in a villa facing a lake in Shenzhen, a small group of senior Huawei Technologies executives headed by founder Ren Zhengfei held a closed-door meeting that lasted for several days. Their mission was to brainstorm ideas on how Huawei should respond to the rising success of Google’s Android smartphone operating system (OS) around the world – software... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3101197/inside-china-tech-can-huawei-make-sweet-harmony-2021?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3101197/inside-china-tech-can-huawei-make-sweet-harmony-2021?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:00:05 +0000 Oppo, the world’s fifth-largest smartphone vendor, plans to launch its own short video platform later this year, betting on the company’s hundreds of millions of users to drive its expansion into online services. “Other than hardware products, we also aim to provide services to consumers,” Jimmy Yi, president of Oppo Asia-Pacific, said in a videoconference interview earlier this month. He indicated that the company has already started offering an app store, gaming centre and browser service in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3098763/chinese-smartphone-giant-oppo-launch-short-video-app-amid-online?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3098763/chinese-smartphone-giant-oppo-launch-short-video-app-amid-online?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:15:07 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. The Trump administration has put the brakes on Huawei Technologies’ expansion plans by making it tougher for the world’s largest telecommunications equipment vendor to acquire chips made with US technology. New rules issued by the US Commerce Department on Monday prohibit Huawei from bypassing earlier sanctions by sourcing products via third-party suppliers. It essentially... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3098329/inside-china-tech-us-sanctions-leave-huawei-all-shook?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3098329/inside-china-tech-us-sanctions-leave-huawei-all-shook?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:00:17 +0000 The Trump administration’s “Clean Network” programme threatens to further disrupt China’s technology industry, as the campaign seeks to restrict the international expansion of Chinese apps, cloud services and undersea cable networks. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday made sweeping remarks that – “to keep Americans’ data safe from untrusted vendors” – he will aim to remove Chinese-owned apps in the market as well as cut off links with China’s digital infrastructure. The initiative,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3096323/us-squeeze-chinas-apps-digital-infrastructure-could-upend-global?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3096323/us-squeeze-chinas-apps-digital-infrastructure-could-upend-global?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:45:12 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the SCMP’s Technology desk with a wrap of this week’s leading stories. Super app WeChat, the multipurpose messaging and social media platform run by Tencent Holdings, may end up as the major beneficiary of its parent company’s US$2.1 billion buyout bid of Sogou, China’s second-largest online search service. Tencent’s proposed acquisition of the 61 per cent stake in Sogou that it does not yet own may shake up a market long dominated by Baidu and fend off potential... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3095512/inside-china-tech-tencent-supercharges-wechat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3095512/inside-china-tech-tencent-supercharges-wechat?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:00:18 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the SCMP’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment vendor, faces shaky prospects across Europe’s vast 5G market after the British government banned the company’s gear from its next-generation mobile infrastructure. Britain’s move focuses attention on Germany, where pressure is growing in the legislature to act against Huawei, according to James Lewis, director of the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3093662/inside-china-tech-huawei-faces-shaky-prospects-europe-after-britains?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3093662/inside-china-tech-huawei-faces-shaky-prospects-europe-after-britains?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:00:22 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. Despite recent moves by China to achieve greater self-sufficiency in strategic areas of technology, semiconductor design and production remains a complex industry that requires decades of research and development to advance. Meanwhile, the US just turned up the heat. Reporters Che Pan and Celia Chen examined whether China’s fledgling semiconductor industry can rescue... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3090768/inside-china-tech-are-chips-down-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3090768/inside-china-tech-are-chips-down-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:30:10 +0000 As the city’s renowned cultural ambassador, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (HKCO) has had a busy schedule in organising more than 100 regular and outreach concerts every year, as well as taking part in various local and international festivals. But disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic have prompted the group to reset, with a plan to do more live-streamed performances using 5G mobile technology under a new government subsidy programme. It reflects renewed efforts by enterprises to adopt... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3090622/hutchison-telecom-ceo-sees-subsidy-scheme-new-applications-next?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3090622/hutchison-telecom-ceo-sees-subsidy-scheme-new-applications-next?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jun 2020 22:15:14 +0000 Hong Kong’s status as a telecommunications hub in Asia, along with its roll-out of 5G mobile services, could be imperilled by Washington’s move to block a major undersea cable network from linking the city to the US West Coast. That gloomy prospect looms larger for Hong Kong after the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector on Wednesday recommended that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deny an application for a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3089664/hong-kongs-regional-telecoms-hub-role-5g-mobile-plans-imperilled-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3089664/hong-kongs-regional-telecoms-hub-role-5g-mobile-plans-imperilled-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:04:08 +0000 Major US companies will remain engaged in developing a global 5G mobile standard, as Washington seeks to keep them in the same room as Huawei Technologies, which is already ahead in drawing up the specifications. The US Commerce Department and other agencies signed off on a rule change on Monday that ensures Huawei’s inclusion in a US trade blacklist will not prevent American companies from international 5G standards-development activities. “This is not a friendly gesture by the US, but simply a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3089300/us-tech-firms-remain-involved-huawei-5g-standards-washington-eases?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3089300/us-tech-firms-remain-involved-huawei-5g-standards-washington-eases?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:30:39 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of some of our leading stories this week. With a population of more than 7 million in a land area of 1,100 square kilometres, Hong Kong is conducting network trials for 5G mobile applications that are smaller in scale than those in mainland China. But like the world’s second largest economy, the city is sharpening its focus on adapting 5G’s advanced capabilities in so-called cellular vehicle-to-everything... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3088827/inside-china-tech-5g-revs-smart-mobility-initiatives?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3088827/inside-china-tech-5g-revs-smart-mobility-initiatives?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:24 +0000 Looking back in time, you can pinpoint when something significant in tech started – from the smartphone age, when Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s first iPhone in the US, to the world’s biggest shopping day, when Jack Ma led Alibaba Group Holding’s launch of its Singles’ Day promotion in China. Hong Kong’s bid to become a world-class smart city was kick-started with the public unveiling of its five-year blueprint on December 15, 2017. A recent interview with executives of the Hong Kong Applied... https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3087927/how-hong-kongs-smart-mobility-ambitions-will-be-boosted-roll-out-5g?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3087927/how-hong-kongs-smart-mobility-ambitions-will-be-boosted-roll-out-5g?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:10:05 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of some of our leading stories this week. Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier, finds itself under renewed pressure after the Trump administration unveiled last week a new rule that would restrict the company’s ability to design its own advanced chips. The US Commerce Department announced last week a new rule that would “target Huawei’s acquisition of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3085682/inside-china-tech-chipping-away-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3085682/inside-china-tech-chipping-away-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:28 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. In April of 2016, Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei became an internet sensation in China after a photograph of him waiting in line for a taxi outside Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport went viral. The nation’s social media users expressed their approval of the image, which showed the septuagenarian without any assistant or chauffeur waiting for him. They... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3081424/inside-china-tech-huawei-founder-ren-zhengfeis-biggest-wish?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3081424/inside-china-tech-huawei-founder-ren-zhengfeis-biggest-wish?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:01:51 +0000 Japanese conglomerate Sony Corp is investing US$400 million in cash for a minority stake in online entertainment platform Bilibili, accelerating the Shanghai-based company’s expansion in the world’s second largest economy. Subsidiary Sony Corporation of America (SCA) agreed to subscribe to 17.3 million newly issued Class Z ordinary shares of Bilibili, which said on Thursday that the two companies will also enter into a business collaboration pact. The transaction, which values Bilibili at US$8... https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3079292/sony-invests-us400-million-chinese-streaming-video-platform?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3079292/sony-invests-us400-million-chinese-streaming-video-platform?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:48:44 +0000 Hello, This is Bien Perez from the SCMP’s technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories from last week. Huawei Technologies is stepping up investments in research and development this year, despite challenges from the coronavirus pandemic and US government sanctions. The world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier and China’s biggest smartphone maker expects to raise that investment to US$20 billion, up from US$15 billion last year, according to Ren Zhengfei, the company’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3077476/inside-china-tech-huawei-ceo-raises-stakes-tech-development-amid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3077476/inside-china-tech-huawei-ceo-raises-stakes-tech-development-amid?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:38:30 +0000