How did Tencent become one of the world's most innovative tech giants? This book offers a rare, in-depth look at Tencent's rise through the lens of innovation management. From early products like QQ to the creation of WeChat and its expansive digital ecosystem, the book explores how Tencent drives continuous and breakthrough innovation across technology, management, platforms, and social value. It introduces Tencent's unique Sequoia-like innovations (deep, directed, invisible, and compound...

"Weiliao" is a series program that tells the story of the world, it created by Wei Yi Culture and Media AB, and launched in 2020. The content touches on history, science, technology, astronomy, geography, music, and more.The book "Destination Mars" tells the historical story of human exploration of Mars. The story from the era of observing the sky with the naked eye, the space age, has been told to the new space age. Let us see how...

The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL’s male–male romantic and sexual relationships have found a particularly receptive home in oth...

This book mainly focuses on defining profit models, on how many main kinds of profit models there are, how profit models can change a company, and how to tailor a profit model to the needs of a certain company. In this context, profit models are classified as fixed-income, remaining-profit and profit-sharing, admission, toll, parking, fuel and sharing fees, profit sources, customer pricing, auction, combined pricing, etc. The logic behind all these profit models will be analyzed in detail ...

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that delves into the world of phytoplasmas - tiny bacteria that infect plants, causing diseases with significant agricultural and horticultural implications. This new edition combines the latest scientific knowledge, cutting-edge methodologies, and practical insights to provide a complete picture of phytoplasma research, from taxonomy to disease management. It presents in-depth coverage of phytoplasma phylogenetics, epidemiology, vector contr...

An insider's view of China's under-the-radar, globally competitive innovators.Chinese innovators are making their mark globally. Not only do such giants as Alibaba and Huawei continue to thrive and grow through innovation, thousands of younger Chinese entrepreneurs are poised to enter the global marketplace. In this book, Mark Greeven, George Yip, and Wei Wei offer an insider's view of China's under-the-radar, globally competitive innovators.The authors, al...

This book discusses the future development trajectories, industry allocation, and investment opportunities of five regions in China: the Great Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin-Xiongan Triangle, the Central Triangle, and the Western Triangle.The authors analyze the resource endowment, current industries, strengths, and weaknesses of the above regions, compare them with similar regions in developed countries, and discuss the future development direction, emergin...

This book elaborates the fundamentals, theory and structure of ToF LiDAR, main components used in ToF LiDAR, and driver and processing circuits in ToF LiDAR. This book combines professional and academic knowledge as well as industrial knowledge and experience of LiDAR in autonomous driving. The objective of the book is to give a comprehensive introduction on LiDAR itself from an engineering perspective, rather than its applications which have been elaborated in many LiDAR related book. Thi...

This book introduces the mathematical foundations of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) for decision-making problems with ambiguous uncertainties and applies them to tackle the critical challenge of energy storage sizing in renewable-integrated power systems, providing readers with an efficient and reliable approach to analyze and design real-world energy systems with uncertainties.Covering a diverse range of topics, this book starts by exploring the necessity for energy st...

Seagift 2024 is a collection of stories and poems.This collection ranges over a wide number of topics and themes: from a gruelling interrogation in Mongolia to the rapture of speaking in tongues. There is horseriding, choir-singing, and perfect char bee hoon. There is a mysterious child who can foretell disaster. There is grief at many kinds of loss and the horror of a looming Plague Angel. There is hope everywhere, blossoming like pea flowers; and love in a "coco...

The two-volume set LNICST 460 and 461 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2022, held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2022.The 57 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 171 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Recommendation System; Federated Learning and application; Edge Computing and Co...

You are not content because of what you do. You are content because of how you see God, yourself, and others.Are you living a life of fear, dissatisfaction, and insignificance despite your efforts to do all the right things? Do you view your world through "lenses" tainted by emotional scars from your past? Chances are you're seeing God, yourself, and others through clouded lenses.An event that culturally positioned Wei Wei Chang as an epic failure became th...