Author: A. Asohan
The CIO: The cloud changes the game even more
There has been a lot of discussion over the last few years about the changing role of the CIO with the advent of cloud computing. The traditional view is that CIOs can no longer just focus on strategic investments in and use of IT, but need to plug into management and business issues. IBM has an even more radical view of the role of the CIO in the cloud era.
Cloud usage: Malaysia below regional average
A recent IDC survey of companies across Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) shows that Malaysia is below the regional average in terms of cloud computing usage, but that is expected to change significantly in the next six to 12 months.
Evidence Act, censorship, control issues and other #facepalms
The idiocy and hypocrisy, though sometimes admittedly merely a poor understanding, from various quarters on certain key issues have just swirled around and collected neatly in front of Digital News Asia executive editor A. Asohan.
Social media presents new challenges for marketing, PR
The Malaysian social media space had its latest viral meme last week after the administrator of the Facebook page for the country’s newest shopping mall had what appeared to be a meltdown and posted snarky and sarcastic comments aimed at an individual customer. In today’s world, whose responsibility is this, Marketing or PR?
Intel Capital: How one big boy treats funding
Chip giant Intel established its global investment and M&A organization Intel Capital in 1991. Its South-East Asian arm was established in 1999 and has since invested US$95 million in technology companies in the region – and not necessarily startups alone.
PR folk are from Venus, the media is from Mars
There is a strange symbiotic-parasitic relationship between public relations (PR) people and the media: It is at times adversarial; at other times, co-operative or complementary; and sometimes, there is hardly any difference at all. But there is still a yawning chasm between the two.
FB page, online petition begun against Evidence Act amendment
Concerned netizens in Malaysia are calling on the Government to withdraw the amendment to the Evidence Act 1950, which civil advocates say will have serious repercussions on Internet use and freedom of expression in the country.They have started a Facebook page 1Million Malaysians against Evidence (Amendment) (No2) Act 2012 and an online petition Netizens against Evidence (Amendment) (No2) Act 2012.
‘Our education system is broken, but we’re going to fix it’
Mindvalley’s upstart founder Vishen Lakhiani had no qualms in publicly declaring what we all know to be the truth: There is something dreadfully wrong with the education system in the country. Only difference is, he aims to fix it.
Helping angels, and start-ups, take off
Malaysia should look into creating business angel networks and introducing tax incentives to help develop the entrepreneurial and start-up space, says a professor who has spent 25 years researching the subject in the United Kingdom.
