Author: Gabey Goh
Better together: Bridging the CMO-CIO divide
Teradata Applications CMO Lisa Arthur advocates education to better enable the increasing need for CMOs and CIOs to work together. Breaking down silos, mapping wider strategy and untangling the ‘data hairball’ the first steps forward in embracing a data-driven marketing approach.
KL Bar hosts business law seminar for startups
The Kuala Lumpur Bar Information Technology and Publications Committee (ITPC) will be organising a one-day seminar on business law this month, geared toward startups.
Twitter’s IPO and finding the right kind of crazy
Startups in this part of the world shouldn’t look to Twitter’s great IPO as a precursor of better things to come – we’re not flush with the kind of VC money Silicon Valley enjoys, cautions Gabey Goh.
Countdown officially begins for PDPA compliance
Businesses and data users have three months from November 15 to ensure compliance
Enforcement of the PDPA also introduces four new subsidiary legislations
ViSenze's mission is to make sense of the visual web
A startup sprung from the NExT Research Centre, a collaboration between the National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University of China, is seeking to help both users and businesses make sense of an increasingly visual online world. Gabey Goh speaks to ViSenze.
Carousell lands SG$1 million in funding for SEA ambitions
Mobile marketplace startup Carousell has raised S$1 million in seed investment to fuel its ambitions in South-East Asia with the round led by Rakuten, Golden Gate Ventures, 500 Startups and angel investors Danny Oei Wirianto and Darius Cheung.
Holistic approach to security needed: McAfee
Cyber threats are constantly testing organisational defences and evolving their attacks to find new ways to evade detection. So, unless organisations are maintaining a more dynamic and automated network response to emerging threats, the general state of readiness is less than optimal, says McAfee.
Shopify eyes mobile entry into Malaysian hearts
Having already garnered some merchants here, the official debut of e-commerce platform Shopify in Malaysia was only a matter of time, says its head of business development.
For a CIO, the real trick lies in asking the right question
The notion of a ‘next generation CIO’ may make for an evergreen keynote topic, but there hasn’t really been a fundamental shakedown of the core role, according to SingTel group chief information officer Choy Peng Wu.
In the new world, the CIO challenge is manifold
Current technology megatrends such as mobility, social media, cloud computing and big data require a new paradigm in IT operations and CIO thinking.
