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Fujitsu Business Technologies Asia Pacific Limited
Telecommunications and ICT Services
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Company Profile
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 140,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers.
Fujitsu Business Technologies Asia Pacific Limited is the Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters for business technologies of Fujitsu Limited, Japan. Its responsibilities include marketing and sales of a wide range of personal computers and business solutions for corporate and end-user markets in the Asia Pacific, offering Smart Workplace solutions to support new working style in smart cities and offices, which is a strategic response to a number of trend s that impacts social economic and technological development that affects the way people live and work.
Cherrypicks
Telecommunications and ICT Services
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Company Profile
Cherrypicks is a home-grown technology startup headquartered in Hong Kong. The company is a regional mobile technology and mobile eCommerce leader specializing in smart city, AR, AI, eWallet and location intelligence. Cherrypicks have developed popular Online-to-Offline (O2O) mobile platforms, a world-class proximity detection and location intelligence infrastructure Starbeacon and an augmented reality SDK solution ARwiz.
Starbeacon units are installed throughout MTR stations and Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) to provide seamless indoor navigation services for passengers. Leveraging Starbeacon’s proprietary location intelligence services, interchange and disembarking notifications are delivered to passengers to provide them with a Smarter Journey. At HKIA, real-time AR navigation and AR signage translation services are available for the 70 million yearly travelers.
Along the Belt & Road regions, indoor/outdoor navigation and mobile based hospitality services are also available at Sands Macao, Fuzhou Changle International Airport and Fu Guang Shan, Taiwan, where visitors are able to navigate with a 2D map or the new geoAR function that allows users to use camera view to see the location of all the different attractions.
In the Philippines and Indonesia, Cherrypicks has launched the INSTORE loyalty platform to provide a unified platform for shoppers’ ultimate mobile experiences in loyalty, points/stamps/coupon management and redemption. Users earn points and redeem rewards in real-time, receive the latest offers and get app-only exclusive deals.
Cherrypicks is a globally recognized guru of mobile solution innovations highly trusted by numerous long-term, multinational and local corporate clients in banking, insurance, catering, retail, property management, travel and transportation sectors.
Alibaba Cloud
Telecommunications and ICT Services
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Company Profile
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is among the world's top three IaaS providers, according to Gartner. It is also the largest provider of public cloud services in China, according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to businesses worldwide, including merchants doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces, start-ups, corporations and public services. Alibaba Cloud is the official Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee.
China-financed Jawa 7 coal-fired facility set for key role in connecting whole country to National Grid by year-end.
Late last year, the first phase of Indonesia's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-backed Jawa 7 thermal electricity plant came online. A US$1.8 billion coal-fired facility, it is being developed by the PT Shenhua Guohua Pembangkitan Jawa Bali consortium – which is 30% owned by PT Pembangkitan Jawa-Bali, a subsidiary of Indonesia's state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), and 70% by China Shenhua Energy, the Beijing-headquartered, state-owned coal-mining giant.
Located in Banten, the westernmost province of the island of Java, the 172-hectare Jawa 7 plant is considered to be one of the most vital electricity-generation projects for Indonesia's fourth-largest landmass and the home of more than half the nation's 264 million population. Once work on the whole project is completed – with the second phase scheduled to come online later this year – Jawa 7 will comprise two 1,000MW generators and provide power throughout the densely populated Java-Bali region.
Jawa 7 is not only Indonesia's largest coal-fired thermal-electricity plant but is also the first such installation in the country to make use of Ultra Super Critical (USC) turbine technology. Essentially, this is an innovative new system that improves power supply efficiency by up to 15% compared with facilities utilising more conventional technology, thus significantly cutting ongoing electricity-generation costs.
Equally importantly, the technology utilised at the Jawa 7 site is seen as representing an environmentally focused template that future coal power projects could adopt as a means of restricting their own level of greenhouse-gas emissions. By incorporating Seawater Desulphurisation – a proprietary process developed by China Shenhua Energy – coal usage is optimised, while emissions of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide are reduced. It is believed this will help cut the nation's carbon footprint, while also improving overall air quality. Its adoption has been seen as particularly timely given that Indonesia currently ranks among the world's 10 largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
The Jawa 7 project was first mooted in 2014, when the Indonesian government invited bids for an ambitious programme intended to increase the country's power capacity by 35,000MW in the run-up to 2020. Some 12 months later, in December 2015, China Shenhua Energy – a specialist in coal mining, production and electricity power projects listed on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges – was awarded the build-own-operate contract. Construction work on the plant then began in April 2016, with a financing agreement between the PT Shenhua Guohua Pembangkitan Jawa Bali consortium and the China Development Bank signed the following October.
Ultimately, the Jawa 7 plant represents a key element in Indonesia's drive to step-up its domestic energy-generating capacity as demand for electricity continues to soar from businesses and consumers across the world's largest archipelago. In line with this, the country's government is committed to delivering nationwide electrification by the end of the current year. With this programme set to connect many rural areas to the national grid for the first time, it is anticipated that demand for electricity will again soar.
With a view to meeting any future demand growth, the government published its 2019-2028 Electricity Procurement Plan in February last year. A blueprint for expanding the country's energy supply resources, it proposes developing 33,666MW of new electricity projects via independent power producers (IPPs) over the next eight years. In order to facilitate this, PLN, the state-owned electricity company, will permit subsidiaries to take shares in selected IPP projects in accordance with the build-operate-transfer model. Ownership of the plants built and owned by IPPs will then be transferred to PLN once each power-purchase agreement matures.
Marilyn Balcita, Special Correspondent, Jakarta