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…
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…
A MIG-28K fighter jet the Indian Navy overshot the runway at Goa Dabolim airport in Vasco, India and crashed today. The pilot a trainee, safely escaped by removing the canopy. The airport located inside the naval base INS Hansa resumed after a brief disruption with some flights being delayed. The fighter aircraft failed to take off…
A fifty-year-old Ryan air Polish national passenger, fed up with waiting to leave a plane in Spain, took the emergency exit and was waiting on the wing with his hand luggage down before perching on the wing’s edge. His flight FR8164 from Stanstead London to Malaga on New Year’s Day had been delayed one hour on…
Six people have died after a single-engine seaplane crashed into the Hawkesbury river near the suburb of Cowan , New South Wales, 30 miles north of Sydney, Australia. Police divers have so far recovered six bodies from the wreckage, 13m of water. The casualties included an 11-year-old boy, the pilot and four British nationals. The…