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Tech funding, the $100 mililon bet

My Herald story today about a clever little company called Optima, which made good use of a $500,000 Foundation of Research Science and Technology grant and its place in the Icehouse incubator to achieve exporting success.
Also, in the Dominion Post, news that Econet has officially signed its $100 million plus deal with Huawei for construction [...]

The hold in Feng Shui

The Chinese have this belief in “Feng Shui”, translated as “wind and water”, where the arrangement of a room, building or even city, is planned in a way to promote harmony with the environment.
Feng Shui is as important to town planning in China as plumbing, as I found on a recent visit to Hong [...]

The Orient’s red democracy

A couple of pieces the Herald ran about my trip to the Huawei campus in Shenzhen, China have been published. The first is a look at the staggering scale of the campus itself, the other an interview with Huawei executive Rio Zhang, who used to head up the Australian Huawei operation and is now the [...]

At the mercy of the money gods

I’ve just come back from a fascinating visit to China which I’ll write more about in following posts.
I love visiting China and seeing the remarkable developments underway there. My time spent at the massive Huawei technology headquarters in Shenzhen really brought home the extent of China’s advances in the telecoms equipment market. The old European [...]

 

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