For the sixth year running, startups have nominated the corporate organisations they believed to be most active in terms of open innovation for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Launched by Mind the Bridge under the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership initiative in 2016, the Awards have been scaled at global level thanks to…
The telemedicine solution for COVID-19 developed by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital based on Huawei’s 5G network solutions has been awarded GSMA GLOMO ‘Best Innovation for COVID-19 Pandemic Response & Recovery’. This award shows the industry’s recognition of 5G smart healthcare for its role in helping combat the virus. The judges of the award have commented…
Tech Company Huawei has been ranked second place out of 2,500 measured companies in the 2021 European Union (EU) Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. The company moved one place higher this year, having placed third in 2020. “Huawei is now ranked as the 2nd highest private sector investor in research and the development in the world.…
Tech giant, Huawei has called for global partners to join its TECH4ALL digital inclusion initiative, which aims to build a more inclusive and intelligent world that leaves no one behind. Speaking at the Huawei TECH4ALL Summit, the company said the initative focuses on four areas: driving equity and quality in education, conserving nature with technology,…
Data centres as critical infrastructure for the actualisation of digital economies have been described as the “foundation of digital transformation”. Speaking during the release of “Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities” white paper recently, Mr. Fei Zhenfu, president, data center facility domain of Huawei Digital Power Product Line, said “in the new era, opportunities…
Huawei has said its newly announced 5G royalty rate will help increase adoption of the technology because it offers a transparent cost structure that can guide their investments. The company announced that it will “provide a reasonable percentage royalty rate of the handset selling price, and a per unit royalty cap at US$2.5.” This…
Huawei has opened its largest Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Center in Dongguan, China with representatives from GSMA, SUSE, the British Standards Institution, and regulators from the UAE and Indonesia speaking at the opening ceremony. Along with the opening of the new center, Huawei also released its Product Security Baseline, marking the first…
Huawei has emerged the highest ranked Chinese corporation on the Forbes list of Best Employers for 2021, and the second Asian company in the top 10, moving up 6 places from 2020. This is despite the many challenges the company is facing occasioned by geopolitics and the COVID-19 pandemic. The rankings are based on a…
Gozem, the leading multi-vertical super app platform in West & Central Africa, on Thursday 2nd December announced the closing of a $5 million Series A round raised from corporate and institutional investors spread across four continents with specialties in health tech, fintech, and mobility. The main investors of the round include: AAIC, Thunes (TransferTo), Momentum…
UNESCO and Huawei have announced the launch of the implementations phase of the Technology-Enabled Open Schools for All (TeOSS) project in selected African countries. Aligned with UN SDG4, TeOSS will serve as a basis for powering the digital transformation of the education sector and support three UNESCO member states in building resilient education systems that…