Huawei Technologies Co.

Digitalisation is a broad technological and business process trend but there is a particular area that is an especially powerful thrust: the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI).

Nokia Oyj and Ericsson AB stand to benefit from Huawei’s further faltering in its 5G prowess, while domestic smartphone rivals including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are likely to get a bigger pie of the Chinese market.

Data centres, for one, are seeing a surge in demand for simple, high-performance data centre interconnect (DCI) solutions.

(June 27): Several Huawei Technologies employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer ties to the country’s military than previously acknowledged by the smartphone and networking powerhouse.

SINGAPORE (Aug 18): Creative Technology, the company that was famous for its Sound Blaster sound cards more than 20 years ago, had quite an eventful week.