As Middle Eastern economies continue to diversify away from oil in the wake of the oil price crash, investors in the region are also ramping up their investments into alternative energy and cleantech. HSBC Holdings Plc. estimates that 80 trillion USD in financing will be required to wean the world’s economy off fossil fuels, and…
Chinese companies have been investing heavily in the Indian tech sector – particularly startups in the web and mobile spheres. Earlier this year, Chinese online travel company Ctrip joined the trend with a 180 million USD investment in the Indian travel portal MakeMyTrip. China’s largest search engine, Baidu, is reportedly in talks with several Indian…
Interest from Chinese investors in the European tech sector has accelerated over the past year, according to analysts and commentators including Mattias Ljungman, a partner at venture capital firm Atomico. “There’s an increasing appetite by the Chinese to look at Europe because they have recognised the opportunities of Europe, which is a huge market in…
Cyber security is not a field where trends happen easily, but the few that do appear tend to spread at wildfire speed. The newest innovation sweeping the regional cyber security sphere is “threat hunting”. Cyber security has graduated from threat detection and response, to actively pursuing sophisticated threats. According to Nicholas Watson, Managing Director at…