E-BUSINESS

15 July 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic almost forced Vivian Mak, the founder of MingCha, to give up her 20-year-old tea business. More

07 June 2022

Innovative new green tech firms feature heavily in this year’s Start-up Express as an environmental, social and governance (ESG) award debuts in the programme. More

HKTDC Updates

Metaverse crossover opportunities

23 May 2022

The dawn of the metaverse is set to blur business boundaries as never before. This webinar will examine how Hong Kong companies can aggregate their offline and online businesses to thrive in this bold new digital future. More

Tech & Innovation

SMEs target passage to India

29 April 2022

The vast and rapidly growing market of India is opening up for electronic commerce and presents ample opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong. More

Tech & Innovation

NFT memories are for keeps

19 April 2022

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have a wide and rapidly growing range of applications and have received extensive coverage recently. More

Market Opportunities

Present perfect

11 April 2022

Global gifting app Prezitt lets users treat loved ones to anything from cupcakes and coffee to gift sets or beauty treatments in real time. A recipient who is not happy with what you have chosen for them can swap it for something else on the app, which currently has about 200 partner locations and 5,000 users, explains Prezitt Co-founder and CEO Alicia Tang. More

Tech & Innovation

Scents and sensibility

04 April 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, bottles of hand sanitiser have become ubiquitous in Hong Kong homes, offices and handbags. Sales have surged since the outbreak began in early 2020 and the Asia-Pacific hand sanitiser market is expected to expand at a 14.4% compound annual growth rate between 2020 and 2026, according to KBV Research. More

Tech & Innovation

Ticket to the metaverse

01 April 2022

Just as our view of the universe has changed radically over time – from a flat earth under a dome of sky to a planet on a solar system in one of hundreds of billions of galaxies – so our perception of the rapidly evolving metaverse is shifting constantly. Only in the case of the metaverse its actual state is evolving along with our perceptions. More

Tech & Innovation

Always at your service

28 March 2022

Digital marketplace platform Toby offers services ranging from dance lessons and physiotherapy to cleaning and home renovation. Established in 2016, it currently has nearly a million users across Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore and hosts more than 80,000 businesses and service providers. More

Tech & Innovation

Boosting network expansion

23 March 2022

As business digitalisation accelerates, data and applications to store and process it grows in importance but can be expensive. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may find outsourcing their data housing to professionally managed data centres is the most cost-effective approach. More

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