Taiwanese e-commerce platform PChome Store‘s fall from grace illustrates a cautionary tale for anyone wanting to found an online business: ignore mobile devices and massive marketing campaigns at your peril. The platform, which is owned by Taiwanese internet...
Lin Ching-yung was once chief scientist at IBM’s prestigious research headquarters, the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He never imagined that one day he would found a company in the U.S. but after working for IBM for 17 years, he started to see entrepreneurship...
Taipei dwellers may be some of the most tech-savvy people in the world, but the city’s number of startups and their overall value still falls beneath international averages. A report by Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which analyzed more than...
Austin-based startup accelerator STEEP!, otherwise known as the Supporting Taiwanese Entrepreneurs Everywhere Project, plans to invest in seven Taiwanese startups within the next two years. The accelerator’s co-founder Erica Liu spoke with Business Next during...
The 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Online-to-Offline Summit kicked off July 2 in southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City, bringing together business representatives and officials from 20 APEC member economies to discuss the latest digital opportunities and trends....
Montreal-based startup Soundskrit aims to install its specialized audio chips into computers and portable devices made in Taiwan. Cofounder Sahil Gupta spoke with Business Next earlier this month at the 2018 Computex Taipei trade show. He came to show a prototype of...
