Asia's Tech Titans: From iPhones to Electric Cars

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The BBC gets exclusive access to Foxconn's Chairman Young Liu.

The BBC gets exclusive access to Foxconn's Chairman Young Liu, as the company looks for the next big product to drive its future growth.

Foxconn is one of the world's largest and most powerful tech giants, making almost half of the globe's consumer electronics. It's best known for making the much loved iPhone, but the company is now stuck at a critical juncture. The growth in personal electronic devices is peaking, and Foxconn is looking for the next big product to drive its future growth. But it's also dealing with another problem: the firm is headquartered in Taiwan - an island that has been increasingly finding itself at the centre of the fractious US-China relationship. The BBC gets exclusive access to Foxconn's Chairman Young Liu and talks to him about these challenges and more...

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Asia's tech entrepreneurs are increasingly giving the US giants a run for their money.

Asia's tech entrepreneurs are increasingly giving the US tech giants a run for their money.

Young, driven and already running multi-billion dollar businesses, the new generation of Asia's tech entrepreneurs not only want to dominate their home markets; they want to challenge the status quo, and change the way businesses are run and the way we live our lives. They are the ones that global tech giants are keeping an eye on, and they are the ones redefining ideas of just what tech companies can become, and how much they can achieve. 

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