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Large banks or corporations are not as agile as tech startups. What can they do? Coming up with good ideas and doing things as quickly as a startup is very tough. But adoption is where the difference comes. If you’re a startup, it takes you much longer to convince someone about your product. It’s a race between the innovativeness of the small ones that are much faster to the market but need the adoption at scale, versus the incumbents who need to transform to be faster and have the platforms and financial means to scale up. … [Read more...] about Investing in innovation to aid growth potential

Huawei has suffered from 5G rollout bans in the US and a number of EU nations, with some leaders questioning the groups’ security. But it continued to grow in 2020, although slowdown in growth was reported. Revenue in the first nine months reached ¥671.3 billion ($103.57 billion), up 9.9 per cent from 2019, versus 24.4 per cent over the same period a year earlier. Net profit margin for the nine months was 8.0 per cent, versus 8.7 per cent over the same period a year earlier. … [Read more...] about Tech giants building on ICT potential

Phuong said that the Law on Public Investment No 39/2019/QH14 which took effect from the beginning of this year would help tighten management of the entire process of public investment. In addition, the decentralisation of management would also be enhanced together with increasing accountabilities for higher efficiency of public investment. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 22

To achieve this goal, the Ministry of Health and Vietnam Medical Association will cooperate on increasing early detection of breast cancer through raising public awareness, screening for breast cancer, developing policy and professional guidance on breast cancer screening. The two sides will also strengthen capabilities of medical systems for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, develop a real-world data system on breast cancer and optimise current data and conduct general research on cost-effectiveness policy on breast cancer screening status, survey drug use in treatment of high risk breast cancer patients. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 22