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Online fraud and scams are sometimes as obvious as Nigerian princes requesting money, but not always. In Malaysia in 2018, around RM 398 million was lost to online shopping scams. Nik Mohd Azri Azaha, CEO of Prepay, talks about his escrow platform designed to halt scammers in their tracks.

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As the year comes to a close, Jeevan Sahadevan provides 19 insightful questions for you to review your 2019 with as you set your goals for 2020, and how to approach the next step after reviewing your year of successes and obstacles.

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The age-old “teach a man to fish” saying rings true with the Sumba Hospitality Foundation. Powered by the leadership of Inge De Lathawauwer and Dempta Bato, the eco-sensitive resort doubles as hands-on experience for local students looking to enter the workforce. We talk to Inge and Dempta about breaking the poverty cycle, the stringent student selection process, as well as keeping the resort sustainable from both a financial and environmental point of view.

Boutique gyms are becoming the a la mode of today’s fitness industry. The appeal of boutique gyms is that it offers smaller, more intimate and unique classes that specialize in one or two areas. Christian Lee and Mark Choo, co-founders of TRIBE, pitch their boutique boxing studio.

Healthmetrics claims to be the only workplace medical benefits software every corporate needs. The online platform automates your medical claims and other HR-administrative tasks, while providing data analytics to HR teams so they can make strategic data-driven decisions. We discuss how Healthmetrics is helping increase transparency between organisations and its employees, as well as how the startup is reinventing HR processes here in Malaysia.

Automation and digitalisation are revolutionising every single industry, but we often think of that as mobile delivery services or hotel robots. How about the back-end processes, though? How are those being carried forward and innovated for Industry 4.0? Jonathan Oh, founder and CEO of Supplycart, a B2B e-procurement platform, discusses all this and more.

Businesses and profitability go hand in hand, but often in the pursuit of profits, the needs and feelings of the people involved in the business are overlooked or ignored. The truth is, understanding what people want, showing them care and respect and taking the trouble to know them often has a bigger and better effect than just monetary rewards. So what is empathy and why is it so crucial at the workplace? It’s the last Monday of the month and as usual we have Human Equation founder Sheila Singam with us to share her thoughts on empathy at the workplace through a number of case studies.

Keeping the internet safe isn’t easy, especially when it comes to online shopping. With millions of transactions happening at any given second, security networks like Forter need to evolve and adapt in real time.. We speak to Forter CMO, Angela Whiteford, about using data and AI to build a safer online space, as well as how the network tracks billions of patterns to tell a legitimate transaction from a fraudulent one.

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Coaches and mentors are invaluable when it comes to achieving success, but not everyone has access to good advice. That’s what Nellie Wartoft is trying to fix with Tigerhall - a subscription-based knowledge sharing app with content provided by Asia’s most successful experts like Joyce Lim from Grab, Aaron Hung from TripAdvisor, and James Walton from Deloitte.

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For years we’ve been asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, but the reality today is - maybe half of the jobs these kids may work in haven’t even been invented yet. We speak to educators in the Klang Valley who are already working to modernize education and develop kids who are future ready, to get their thoughts on the tools we need to equip the next generation with, to give them the most competitive edge.

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