Despite recent setbacks in the industry, many Chinese electric vehicle (EV) companies have stepped up the gas to compete with the preeminent EV tech giant of the moment, Tesla. As we covered recently, developments in new technologies (such as cobalt-free batteries) and performance innovation have fueled EV startups to enter the global market and increase […]
The eCommerce sector has experienced remarkable growth in the past couple of quarters. Digital Commerce 360 reports that global cross-border online sales increased 21% between January 1st and June 14th, compared to 2019 data for the same quarters. In addition, Consumer research by PYMNT shows that 60% of consumers plan to continue shopping online, and […]
The global COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted a diverse range of industries and sectors, and the automotive industry is no exception. According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, the global COVID-19 pandemic has split the auto industry into three parts: North America, Europe, and China. While sales in North America and Europe […]
As governmental bodies determine their responses to the coronavirus pandemic, technology is reaching across nations to aid these efforts. In these times, information regularly crosses linguistic boundaries with the utmost urgency, and in response people all over the world have come together to aid translators in their work. For example, WhatsApp, a social media chat […]
A few months into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the way you do your week’s grocery shopping has radically changed. Maybe your local stores were open for browsing, allowing you to walk in so long as you had a mask on. It’s likely — 3 in 10 Gen Zers and Millennials are doing so — that you […]
If you have ever tried to interact with an online chatbot only to find yourself calling the 1-800 number to reach a live service agent, it can be easy to dismiss the idea that AI is already a developed fixture of everyday life. Nevertheless, with a growing number of smart devices and 5G edge nodes […]
With eLearning becoming an increasingly common fixture of corporate training and professional development, many have pointed to higher education as the next frontier in online education, particularly in light of the current pandemic. What many may not realize, though, is that universities have been cautiously making their way towards offering full online degree programs for […]
On June 12th, 2020, the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center of Chinese and American Studies (HNC) celebrated 36 graduate students and 74 certificate students at their virtual graduation ceremony. During the online graduation ceremony, speakers from around the world spoke to the Class of 2020, including CSOFT Founder & CEO Ms. Shunee Yee. As recent […]
This week, CSOFT is here with Dr. CJ Li, Professor at Peking University and visiting scholar at Stanford University, to talk about remote learning. COVID-19 has caused work and education to shift to be online, and Dr. CJ as both a medical researcher in university settings, as well as critically acclaimed educator, has exciting insight […]
Live sports events, the single most unifying pastime for people all over the world, confronted a major loss this year during the coronavirus outbreak, with sports leagues everywhere cancelling their events following shelter-in-place orders. One can imagine all the die-hard fans sitting at home, nurturing a pent-up demand for live physical sports. The good news […]
Regardless of who you interact with here at CSOFT — which stands for Communication Solutions Of Foreign Trade and the word “soft” implying an intelligent harnessing of technology — you will find values both within the company, and within the people, that are universal. At CSOFT, we celebrate diversity and inclusivity, both in our work […]
In one of many astonishing developments of 2020, industries that have long resisted online retail have finally turned to eCommerce to survive. The fashion industry, for example, has strictly avoided platforms like Amazon in the past, but with independent designers witnessing already tight budgets implode and even government aid falling short of making up the […]
