Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week is a showcase for several new Chinese exhibitors and they increasingly winning with their own products. Shenzhen-based DJI, a leading global producer of Drones. The Value in Tech with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have a combined market value of $2.8tn compared to the Chinese internet…
Sterling has leaped to its highest level in past 19 months against the US dollar since the Brexit vote, to $1.37 highest level since 254 June 2016. Before the result of the referendum, the Pound had been trading at $1.50. Sterling is benefiting from the dollar weakness and the growing euro strength rather any pound…
Ohio State University graduate, Yang Huiyan, 36-year-old Chinese property developer and majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings is the richest woman in China and the 4th richest female billionaire by net worth ( US $29.7billion) in the world. Yang Huiyan’s wealth up by $6.1 billion, in just seven days of trading this year alone equaled…
Dr. Jeff Chamberlin, 52, having managed battery research at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago and former director of the Argonne Collaborative Centre for Energy Storage Science ( ACCESS), the US government’s top technology laboratory, where he classified over 30 new inventions, now runs Volta Energy Technologies, backed by Albemarie, one of the world’s largest…
Orly Lobel, a professor of law at the University of San Diego, traces back to Barbie, the blonde bombshell’s roots to Bild Lilli, a sexually suggestive German toy made for adults. In 1959 Mattel, founded by Ruth and Elliot Handler, Launched a successor for American girls and named after their daughter Barbara. Soon Barbie captured…
Shantou the Southern China city born, Pony Ma, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, the world’s sixth-biggest tech company which is Facebook, Apple Pay, Spotify, gaming and reading rolled into one, which last year generated $23bn revenue and has world’s biggest chunk of data, in China despite government surveillance. Ma’s Tencent Holdings ranks among China’s largest…
An inflatable huge balloon floating over Oxford Circus was hung for testing ahead of the annual Lumiere light festival but has hung 60 mph winds, wobbled and almost fell on shoppers. One woman was hurt when she was hit by a cable as it became partially untethered. Transport for London, was forced to shut…
World’s most expensive vodka at £960,000 $ 1.3m has been found empty on a construction site according to Danish police. The bottle made from gold and silver and with a diamond encrusted cap was on loan to a Café 33 Copenhagen bar which had a collection of vodkas on display. According to the bar…
Classic car 1950s Jaguar D-Type is listed for sale at auction for £9 million, sold by Ex- F1 supremo and legendary motorsport mogul Bernie Ecclestone on January 18, 2018, by Sotheby. In the 1920s as a young car dealer, he shifted the 170mph D-type for just £3,500. This model is now one of the world’s most…
A truck towing two trailers, was crossing a level crossing between Hennenman and Kroonstad in South Africa’s Free State at about 9:15am local time (11:145am GMT) when a train carrying over 400 passengers travelling from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg, crashed on to it killing 18 and injuring 260 people. Several carriages burst into flames and…