Tech Talk

The 4th industrial revolution is upon us, the world of IoT, AI, and Quantum Computing. This provides an opportunity for businesses around the world to reinvent and innovate to stay relevant tomorrow. With this, are Malaysian businesses ready for this explosion? Recently Microsoft Malaysia released its Digital Transformation Study, involving 113 business leaders in Malaysia and only 34% has a full digital strategy in place. We speak to Michal Golebiewski, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer, Microsoft Malaysia about what areas that we are lacking and the barriers to this.

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Google held its 3rd annual event for top apps and games developers from South East Asia on 2nd November in Singapore. In one of the panel sessions, some of the top co-founders of mobile gaming companies in South East Asia, the likes of Kurechii (Malaysia), Touchten Games (Indonesia) and MochiBits (Philippines) shared their experiences on how they started their journey and reaching that million downloads milestone in a very short space of time. Find out what goes into making a successful mobile game and what are some of the thought process involved in their success.

24:06 - Podcast Special: Interview with Roki Soeharyo, co-founder of Touchten Games about how their first ever game made top ranking in 26 different countries and their second game, was top ranking in 40 countries. What is their secret sauce?

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On this episode, the geeks talk about Apple being able to see pictures of bras, wind turbine terror-dead rabbits were spread at wind farm presumably to lure eagles,Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuado and Russia organized 2 sides of a Texas protest.

0:10 - Apple Can See All Your Pictures Of Bras

7:53 - Wind Turbine Terror – Dead Rabbits Were Spread At Wind Farm Presumably To Lure Eagles

13:55 - Bitcoin Mining Uses More Energy than Ecuador – But There’s A Fix

19:59 - Russia Organized 2 Sides Of A Texas Protest And Encouraged ‘Both Sides To Battle In The Streets’

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If you’ve accidentally come into contact with the news over the past few weeks you might have noticed a series of apologies and admissions from tech companies that show them in less than their best light. From Mark Zuckerberg acknowledging that Facebook underestimated the manipulation of its site both during and after the US Presidential election, to huge personal data breaches from companies like US credit ratings giant Equifax. Today Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is trying to Mattslpain the sickness he sees at the heart of our technology culture.

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Level Up KL 2017 is happening again and this time its bigger than ever. Over 5 days and 40 key players of the gaming sector, the gaming sector is a giant stride forwards as we come to the end of 2017. We speak to the key icons behind this year’s Level Up event about what to expect and what look out for!

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Years ago, one would dream about starting a company, going on through the journey, all the way to when the baby is ready to go on the IPO route. Today however, IPO isn’t really always the dream for many startups. Sure, raising funds is always the dream but IPO isn’t the only ultimate goal. Fundnel, is a Singaporean Fintech company that provides an online investment platform which uses data and technology to help high-growth, pre-IPO SMEs to get the funding they need and simplifying private investing. We speak to Kelvin Lee, co-founder and CEO of Fundnel about creating an alternative fundraising avenue for high-growth SMEs.

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The team from Digital News Asia.com talks about Malaysia investigating reported leak of 46 Million mobile users data, awareness on digital adaptation, Silicone Valley lessons in innovation, Indonesia's Snapchat fundraising & Recommend takes on the large jobs. Also on the show, AllSome fills in the cross-border e-commerce gaps, IDC Digital Transformation Awards and CanLaw, the lawyer discovery platform in Malaysia!

0:26 - Malaysia Investigating Reported Leak Of 46 Million Mobile Users Data

3:25 - Budget 2018 Keeps Digital Economy Momentum For Malaysia

7:48 - What’s Next Ahead Of Curve To Help Drive Awareness On Digital Adaptation

14:17 - Garage Ventures VC Shares Silicon Valley Lessons In Innovation

18:50 - Indonesia’s Snapcart Raises US$10Mil In Series A Funding

24:45 - Recommend Takes On The Large Jobs

27:22 - AllSome Fills In The Cross-Border E-Commerce Gaps

30:15 - IDC’s Digital Transformation Awards Recognises Disruptors, Innovators

32:28 - CanLaw Pivots To Bring More Tech To Legal Profession

33:15 - Legal Tech Startup CanLaw Provides A Lawyer Discovery Platform To Malaysians

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China is an important market for Malaysian businesses, especially once the China-led-mega trade agreement, RCEP and the One Belt One Road Initiative take effect. However, in order to access the market, the businesses would rely on cross-border transfer of data for business operations - things like online advertising, social media presence, and even emails. But the newly passed China cyber security law does not allow cross border transfer of data and this, may impact the market accessibility. So if you’re business has any sort of connection with China, listen up.

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With heart disease being the number one cause of death, Kuldeep Singh Rajput founded Biofourmis, a healthcare data analytics company aims to correlate how lifestyle affects heart health and build predictive models in detecting risk factors patients with cardiovascular diseases will face. By miniaturising bulky medical equipments to a wearable medical device, you can check and monitor your health via a mobile app, in the same way you check your email, WhatsApp or Facebook the first thing in the morning.

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In the era of social media domination, images, videos and audio files are being shared and widely circulated online. This also includes the social media pages of celebrities that have million of followers, and receive thousands of likes and comments from fans daily. However, recently Amy Schumer, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Miley Cyrus are some of the celebrities that generate the most dangerous search results that could expose fans to viruses and malware according to a study by McAfee. Cybercriminals today have found a way to embed malicious malware into something as seemingly innocuous as a digital image, called Steganographic Malware. David Freer, McAfee’s Vice President Consumer Asia Pacific explains.

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