- In a staff email, the founder of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd expressed its shift of focus from pursuing scale to ensuring profits and cash flow as the global economy enters a prolonged recession, Reuters reports.
- “With survival the main principle, marginal businesses will be shrunken and closed, and the chill will be felt by everyone,” founder Ren Zhengfei’s email read.
- He reportedly drew attention to the importance of the company’s traditional focus on information and communications technology (ICT).
- He cited the company’s cloud computing, digital energy, and smart car businesses as prospective areas for development.
- However, he expressed uncertainty over Huawei’s outlook beyond the next couple of years.
- The U.S. put Huawei on an export blacklist in 2019, restricting access to critical technology citing national security concerns.
- The U.S. continues to restrict China’s other chipmakers’ access to cutting-edge semiconductor technology, citing similar concerns.
- The U.S. also recently launched a Chips Act restricting investments and expansion in China.
- China opposed the U.S. Chips Act and assured aggressive countermeasures.
- Huawei’s clocked a 52% drop in its first-half profit to 15.08 billion yuan, as economic slowdown, COVID-19 resurgence, and supply chain challenges weighed on the business.
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), which serves as a barometer for the country’s tech industry, clocked flat revenue growth in the first quarter to $30.69 billion, beating the consensus of $30.05 billion.
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Honda Announced Plans to Launch More Than 10 Electric Motorcycle Models Globally by 2025, Sell 1M Electric Motorcycles Globally Within 5 Years, Sell 3.5M Electric Motorcycles Annually by 2030
Striving to realize carbon neutrality for all of its motorcycle products during the 2040s, as the primary focus of environmental strategies for motorcycle business, Honda will accelerate electrification of its motorcycle models, while also continuing to advance ICE (internal combustion engines).
