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What Happened: Yahoo Hong Kong Shuts Down News On 3 March 2026, Yahoo officially shut down its Hong Kong news service — one of the city’s last remaining legacy digital news aggregators. The move followed years of declining traffic, advertiser exodus to social platforms, and an increasingly difficult regulatory environment. For millions of Hong Kongers…
The Labour Cost Crisis Hitting Hong Kong Retail If you run a retail business in Hong Kong, you already know the numbers are brutal. Minimum wage increases, a tight labour market, and commercial rents that refuse to come down mean margins are thinner than ever. The retailers surviving — and thriving — in 2026 aren’t…
The MCP Security Problem Nobody’s Talking About Model Context Protocol (MCP) is having its moment. Anthropic’s open standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data sources has been adopted by everyone from development teams to enterprise platforms. It’s the plumbing behind the “AI agent” revolution. There’s just one problem: 41% of MCP servers…
Why Hong Kong SMEs Need an AI Transformation Roadmap in 2026 Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most Hong Kong SMEs that “adopt AI” are just paying for tools they barely use. A ChatGPT subscription here, a Canva AI account there — but no coherent strategy connecting any of it to actual business outcomes. The companies pulling…
The Customer Service Problem Every HK SME Faces If you run a Hong Kong SME, these scenarios are painfully familiar: WhatsApp receives 30+ identical enquiries daily: “What are your opening hours?” “Is it in stock?” “Do you deliver?” Customers message outside office hours, and by the time you reply next morning, they’ve gone to a…
Email Marketing Isn’t Dead — It Just Got Smarter Many people assume email marketing is obsolete, but the data tells a different story. According to 2026 statistics, email marketing still delivers the highest ROI of any digital marketing channel — an average of HK$36-42 return for every HK$1 invested. The game-changer? AI has made email…
Where Does Your Time Go? The Accountant’s Time Audit A typical Hong Kong accountant (or accounting firm employee) spends a staggering number of hours on repetitive work each month: Manual data entry: 15-20 hours Bank reconciliation: 8-12 hours Organising receipts and invoices: 6-10 hours Report writing: 8-12 hours Responding to client enquiries: 5-8 hours Scheduling…
Why Most People Get Mediocre Results from AI Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the gap between average AI users and power users isn’t intelligence, technical skill, or even which model they use. It’s how they write their prompts. A vague prompt like “write me a marketing email” will give you a vague, generic email. A well-crafted…
The Design Tool Dilemma: Canva AI or Adobe Express? Hong Kong SMEs increasingly need to handle their own design work — social media posts, product images, flyers, presentations, even short videos. Hiring a freelance designer at HK$300-500/hour isn’t always feasible, and learning Photoshop takes months. The good news: both Canva and Adobe Express have added…
Why AI Writing Tools Matter for Hong Kong Professionals Hong Kong runs on two languages, and most AI writing tools were built for just one. If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT to write a formal Chinese business email and received something that reads like Google Translate circa 2015, you know the problem. The good news: 2026…
