Author: Dzof Azmi

Digerati50: ‘I have never had fear’
Khairuddin Rahman walks very thin line between bravery & stupidity Leveraging nearly 25 years of experience with satellite technology
Digerati50: Helping fashion retailers keep up with the trend
A go-getter who chased down a leading VC, Khailee Ng, and convinced him to fork out US$400k in 2013, Kendrick Wong is taking a measured approach to growing his fashion analytics startup, Omnilytics.
Touch 'n Go steps into online finance with GO+, with more to come
Targets 1 mil GO+ users by end 2021, complement 15 mil existing users Three specific areas identified for future products including personal lending
Digerati50: From selling videos at a night market to selling services across 33 countries
Time and commitment needed to break into overseas markets Benefited greatly from programmes such as MDEC's GAIN, Matrade's MDG
Khailee Ng: Understanding SPACs, ESGs, and the underlying trends
Important for the first SPACs in Southeast Asia to set benchmark. Helping firms understand the E and S in ESG to be on ‘right side of history’
Digerati50: The small AI company with a lofty vision
Artificial Intelligence to help call centers manage thousands of calls, emails Powered by internally developed Emotion AI that reads human feelings & intent
Kara Marketing shares digital recipe for success
Credits 64% growth during pandemic to existing digital infrastructure Is encouraging distributors to connect to its systems for smoother operations
AWS re:Invent 2020: You want to be reinventing all the time
AWS CEO Andy Jassy says only 4% of IT spend is on cloud computing Latest offerings include analytics, machine learning, IOT, edge computing Amazon Web Service's (AWS) annual re:Invent conference in Dec 2020 was in reality less about the huge technological strides it has made in the complicated year, and more about how its current incorporation of Industry 4.0 innovations is a reaffirmation of its current growth.
Digerati50: Meet Prof Irene Ng - economic hacker
Creating more democratic, private world for personal data by ‘hacking economics’ HAT microserver lets you keep your data, sharing with permission via contracts
Lenovo sees a future in hybrid cloud
11% YOY 3Q2020 growth for data centre group Sees customers shifting back to hybrid cloud model
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