Author: A. Asohan
Budget 2016: Startup goodies, MaGIC boost, ho-hum broadband
Recognising that the majority of Malaysian mobile phone users, especially youth, are on prepaid accounts, the Government will be providing rebates on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for prepaid cards, Finance Minister Najib Razak said while tabling the national Budget 2016 in Parliament.
myWebRoom: A virtual room of your own, eyes on Asia
Young San Francisco startup myWebRoom is eyeing Asia Pacific, which accounts for 25% of the world’s social media activity, for its content discovery and organisation platform. A. Asohan speaks to one of its founders.
Malaysian-born, NUS-educated, Silicon Valley-focused designer
SF-based startup myWebRoom’s lead product designer is the Malaysian-born and Singapore-educated Ling Lim, who tells DNA how she ended up in the US after an unhappy and short career as an architect.
Wahai para teknisi dan hacker di Asean, Apa yang bisa kalian lakukan untuk mengatasi masalah asap?
Artikel ini pertama kali ditulis dalam Bahasa Inggris dan dimuat pada bulan Juni tahun 2013. Mengingat kejadian ini berulang setiap tahun dan saat ini tengah berlangsung kami memutuskan untuk menerbitkan kembali terutama untuk pembaca kami di Indonesia.
APAC outpacing rest of the world in mobile payments: IDC
Mobile payment growth in Asia Pacific is outpacing the rest of the world, and will make up half of the global market by 2017, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
Carriers using ‘supercookies’ to track users’ mobile browsing
Carriers in at least 10 countries have been using ‘supercookies’ to track their users’ mobile browsing, according to global digital rights organisation Access, and while there is no evidence that such spying is being conducted in this part of the world, users are urged to be wary.
When mobile operator Maxis finally got … mobile
More than 15 months ago, Maxis began an exercise to become a truly mobile organisation, and learned some key lessons learned along the way, writes A. Asohan.
TM on Internet disruption: We took all necessary action
Telekom Malaysia (TM) said it took all necessary action to quickly mitigate the routing issue that inadvertently caused disruptions to Internet access across the globe last week, and would take further steps to prevent a recurrence.
MCMC looking into TM outage behind global Internet slowdown
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said it is looking into the issue of a Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) outage that reportedly caused a slowdown in Internet services across the globe.
Twitter opens Asia Pacific Hq in Singapore
Twitter Inc has launched its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, about a year after first opening its subsidiary in the island-republic, saying that it would more than double headcount from the current 80.
