East Meets West: A Podcast about understanding Asia Tech and how Asia Tech affects the world

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Xiaomi Corporation. Xiaomi, registered in Asia as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, and household items. Behind Samsung, it is the second largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, most of which run the MIUI operating system.

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In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Fortescue Metal Group. Fortescue is an Australia-based company engaged in iron ore mining. Fortescue focuses on exploration, development, production, processing, and sale of iron ore. Fortescue owns and operates a fully integrated infrastructure and supply chain, including five-berth Herb Elliott Port in Port Hedland; the Judith Street Harbour towage infrastructure and the heavy-haul railway covering 620 kilometres of track.

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In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Appen. Appen provides or improves data used for the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence products. Data types include speech and natural language data, image and video data, text and alphanumeric data and relevance data to improve search and social media engines. Appen boasts a crowd of 1 million people, who annotate the data sets that power the AI algorithms of the companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google.

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In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Formula One Group. Formula One Group controls the exclusive commercial and promotional rights to the Formula One World Championship series, and the monetization of those rights is the primary business of the group. The firm is responsible for development and promotion of the Formula One race series in concert with its three partners: the FIA (the regulatory body), the teams that participate in the series, and the series' commercial partners, which include the race promoters, broadcasters, sponsors, and advertisers. Formula One Group is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, which purchased the firm in January 2017.

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What is a hiatus? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our 'Simple Sprouts' series.

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In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Zomato. Zomato is an India-based company that has  two core business-to-customer offerings: Food delivery and Dining-out. It also has a business-to-business offering, Hyperpure, which supplies ingredients to restaurant partners. Customers use its platform to search and discover restaurants, read and write customer generated reviews and view and upload photos, order food delivery, book a table and make payments while dining-out at restaurants. 

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What are the top news stories in the markets? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. We're trying something new this week by recapping the latest news on some of investors' favourite companies. This is our 'Bite-Sized News' series.

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In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Tencent. Tencent is arguably the most influential Internet firm in China as one can hardly go  a day without using its products. Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor and owns the world's top-grossing mobile game - Honor of Kings. Tencent also runs China's largest social media super app - WeChat. The app is now part of the fabric of life for Chinese people who use it to chat, shop, watch videos, play games, order food and taxis, and more. Tencent is also among the world's largest venture capital and investment corporations. The firm is now one of the largest shareholders in leading tech companies like Meituan, JD, DiDi, Snap, PDD, Kuaishou, Epic Games, and more.

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What is space investing? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our 'Simple Sprouts' series.

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In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). TSMC is the world's largest dedicated chip foundry, with over 58% market share in 2020 per Gartner. TSMC's scale and high-quality technology allow the firm to generate solid operating margins, even in the highly competitive foundry business. Furthermore, the shift to the fabless business model has created tailwinds for TSMC with an illustrious customer base, including Apple, AMD and Nvidia, that looks to apply cutting-edge process technologies to their own semiconductor designs. 

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