Author: Goh Thean Eu
Mudah.my to fend off rivals with ‘one simple approach’
As Malaysia’s largest online marketplace, with products and services in over 50 categories, Mudah.my is facing competition on all fronts. Its new CEO is unperturbed however, because he has a focused game plan, reports Goh Thean Eu.
What’s Next: We don’t represent Malaysia, says Media Prima exec
It was a slap in the face for many participants at DNA's inaugural What’s Next conference when Media Prima Television Networks CEO Ahmad Izham Omar revealed the cold hard truth: Urban folk do not represent Malaysia.
Gwen Yi wants to change the lives of 30mil people
Social entrepreneur Wong Gwen Yi wants to change the lives of 30 million people before she is 30 years old, she tells Goh Thean Eu in San Francisco.
What’s Next: Tony’s Top 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs
Now a true-blooded tycoon after having disrupted the global aviation industry, it’s easy to forget that AirAsia cofounder Tony Fernandes trod the same entrepreneurs’ path that many DNA readers are treading now, and that he faced his own challenges in bringing a crazy idea – that everyone can fly – to fruition.Here are his Top 10 tips from the What's Next conference:
What’s Next: AirAsia is an Internet company … no, really!
It may have turned global aviation on its head and disrupted the entire airline industry, but AirAsia Group is essentially an Internet company, its chairman and cofounder Tony Fernandes told the What's Next conference.
SportBoleh taps on ‘can do’ attitude with global plans
After several years spent on trials and designs, SportBoleh Sdn Bhd, a startup specialising in high-performance sports products, is ready to take its maiden and flagship product Lila Exogen to the global market.
(DNA Top 10 in 2014) A deeper look into Malaysia’s Big 3 mobile telcos in 1H2014
DNA editor Goh Thean Eu looks at the first half performance of the three major celcos in financial year 2014, where DiGi is turning the market on its head.
Cradle co-investment move hits US$16mil mark with new investors
Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd has signed up another five partners for its Co-Investment Partners programme, doubling the total combined funding under the programme to about RM56.7 million (approximately US$16 million) from RM28 million.
CeBIT confident more data centre players will come in
Deutsche Messe and DatacentreDynamics joined hands to attract more data centre industry players and stakeholders to take part in CeBIT 2015. Goh Thean Eu explores the partnership.
Axiata’s bumpy IT transformation programme: Lessons learnt
Axiata president and group CEO Jamaludin Ibrahim comes clean on Celcom’s IT transformation programme that caused it to lose customers and dealers, and the lessons the group learned from it. Goh Thean Eu has the story.
