Introduction Buy brewers. Buy distillers. Buy restaurant companies. This was the conclusion the other day from stock market analysts at Morgan Stanley, who predicted that the arrival of the era of driverless cars would trigger a significant pick-up in alcohol consumption. Autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing technology will enable us to glug more than ever, the […]
Dato’ Dr. Anuar is the founder of Bison Consulting. He has been involved in the commercialization of technologies and the assessment of new innovation. Dato’ Dr. Anuar has developed expertise in the valuation of new ventures during his long involvement as a private equity manager and investment analyst in Malaysia and Silicon Valley, USA. He […]
Background It was reported recently that Shell, the oil giant, had bought a company, New Motion, a Dutch firm with 30,000 private charging points at home and offices in Europe. This is an interesting development, and it indicates that the oil giants are contemplating a business life after oil. The downstream sector, especially the retailing […]
Automation and Jobs A report by Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford (The Report), has examined the susceptibility of jobs to computerization. The impact of computerisation on jobs (labour market) is well-established. It is documented that there will be a decline in routine -intensive occupations, that is, occupations mainly consisting of task following well-defined procedures […]
Introduction The recent Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2917 saw major car companies exhibited several models of electric cars. Subsequently, investors are piling-up their bets on mining companies that are involved in lithium, the key component for making batteries for electric cars. BlackRock, one of the largest fund managers in the world, has […]
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