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Apple's latest iPhone launch event   was one of the strangest we've seen. Instead of revealing and fawning over two new flagships, the company instead launched a pair of slightly anticlimactic flagships that were quickly overshadowed by a luxury handset not many people will be able to afford. The   iPhone X   has everything that the   iPhone 8   has, plus some extra stuff o n top. So the big question is whether those are worth the extra money, or if you should just get the less premium phone – which still boasts a great camera and all the features you'd expect. Here are the main differences between the new smartphones. Screen size and quality The most immediately noticeable difference between the iPhone X and iPhone 8 is the display.   The X has a thoroughly modern-looking “edge-to-edge” screen   that covers almost the entire front face of the handset, apart from a chunk at the top. The iPhone X’s screen is much larger and sharper than...

Like all the best ideas, it started with a problem. For Steven Lam Hoi-yuen – the man who would go on to co-found Hong Kong’s first US$1 billion start-up – that problem was the difficulty of trying to find delivery vans. The year was 2010, and a young Lam was trying to launch his first business venture – a company selling advertisements on food takeout boxes. He and his two co-founders quickly discovered it was nigh on impossible to arrange vans that could transport the takeout boxes to the restaurants, as the call centres they were phoning often did not pick up or claimed they did not have vans available. “ There is never a best time to start something, you can never wait for enough resources to start something. Don’t wait to do something, use your own hands and [go prove it] ” STEVEN LAM, CO-FOUNDER, GOGOVAN The trio had to ring multiple call centres with different pools of drivers to find available vans. They soon realised that each call centre had a limited numbe...