Tech Talk

The Geeks talked about increase revenue growth in music labels today, crime fighting robots, Uber promises Flying Cars by 2020 and King of the Crowd is about PAPR Watch.

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The usage of video in analytics is significantly underutilised for operational, business and public safety data. Over at Hitachi Data System’s, video is believed to be the solution to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience. Keith Roscarel is the Director of Public Safety and Smart Cities for Asia Pacific unravels the benefits of video analytics.

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The Geeks talk about digital destruction, Facebook's brain control idea, new phishing technology based on letters, and the personal air conditoning-The Evapolar 2.

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Karamjit Singh, Anushia Kandasivam, from Digital New Asia.com and Aaron Sarma, from Touristly talk about:

0:28 - AirAsia Takes 50% Stake in Touristly for US$2.6mil

13:01 - Founder Institute Ready to Kick Off Fifth Semester

18:24 - Eatigo Launches in Malaysia

24:42 - Gogoprint Ready to Disrupt SEA’s Printing Industry

29:21 - N2N Connect Takes Big Step Towards Goal with US$11.5mil HK Acquisition

33:13 - No More Telco Contracts & Roaming Charges with Gemalto eSIM?

35:52 - KoinWorks Supports SMEs with Online Lending Solution

37:47 - MDEC introduces Malaysia Digital Hub and MTEP

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Over the past year, there have been several cases of high profile cyber attacks on multinational corporations as well as smaller enterprises. Unfortunately, most Malaysian SMEs underestimate their vulnerabilities to cyberattack and they view cyber risk insurance as an unnecessary expense. This perception of cyber risk is made even more worrisome as SMEs play integral role in Malaysian economy.

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The word FinTech has been a buzzword throughout Southeast Asia as investors, VCs and even fundings seem to be capitalising on this explosion in the startup space. Talent, however, is scarce. Michelle Katics, co-founder and CEO of PortfolioQuest shares how they play a role in the FinTech space with their “virtual world” training simulation.

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The Geeks talk about Humbleworks' standing desk designed specially for the white collars, how a chicken nugget-obsessed teen could break a Twitter record after taking on a challenge from Wendy's to get 18million retweets in exchange for one year supply of free nuggets, how a Twitter user challenged Wendy's claim that they never use frozen beef, Google's Home software, and how Jordanian Airlines flames United Airlines on Twitter!

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In the digital age we have things like bitcoins, cryptocurrency and mobile wallets. But physical cash is still used widely today. SoCash is a startup that aims to bridge the gap between the digital world and the physical by eliminating the need for ATMs, allowing its users to select participating merchants who act as cash pickup points from its app. We speak to founder, Hari Sivan on how SoCash plans to embrace digital without eliminating the physical.

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Later this year, we have another Star Wars movie to enjoy. All that space travel, laser fights, robot companies is what makes science fiction absolutely breathtaking. The funny thing is though, if we look at our smartphones, smartwatches, rocket ships to mars, drones that fly themselves, machines talking to each other and talking to us, all these were previously figments of the imagination at some point ago. And we live application economy, whereby every business is a software business and this will likely be even more so in the future, as industries continue to disrupted and digitally transformed. So what will our future look like? Is it anything like the galaxy far far away? To give us a glimpse into a galaxy far far away is Stephen Miles, the Chief Technology Officer Asia Pacific & Japan for CA Technologies.

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We speak to Elia Hernando who is based in Barcelona about what the city of Catalunya has to offer being a smart city in today’s world and how all this was made possible.

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