TIL: IP licensing revenue

In 2017, Finland’s Nokia generated €1.65 billion ($1.86 billion at current exchange rates) from technology licensing, accounting for about 7% of revenue. In its most recent fiscal year Qualcomm, whose intellectual property is used in virtually all of the world’s smartphones, generated $5.2 billion from technology licensing, more than one-fifth of its total revenue.

[Huawei] as of early February owned 1,529 “standard-essential” 5G patents, the most of any company. Together with patents owned by ZTE, the state-owned China Academy of Telecommunications Technology, and Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., companies from China own 36% of all 5G standard-essential patents, more than double their share of comparable 4G patents.

https://outline.comwww.wsj.com/articles/where-china-dominates-in-5g-technology-11551236701

The current and future technology threats from China are not about IP theft that the Fucking Moron (tm) keeps talking about. Rather, it's about real investment in the next generation of communications [and logistics] infrastructure. The US seems to be missing the boat.

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In less than 5 minutes, AOC compiled a list of possible crimes and extracted the names of potential witnesses. In contrast with the vast majority of her colleagues from both parties, she was on point and on time. Impressive.

"WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez asked if Trump 'improperly' avoided paying taxes. Cohen said yes" (Watch on YouTube)

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In about 30 years, Singapore built a world-class education system. Over the last decade, they've created a startup ecosystem that is better than in Europe. These people are smart and relentless. The only problem is they don't want to make babies.

The latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject released on Wednesday (Feb 27) showed that in total, 14 Singaporean subject offerings ranked in the global top 10. This was more than the combined totals of China (four), Hong Kong (three), and Japan (three).

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/nus-ntu-shine-in-university-rankings-by-subjects-smu-breaks-into-top-50-for