Tech Talk

The Geeks uncover the reason behind the recent DDoS attacks, celebrate the arrival of AI-powered body scanners and Matt's King of the Crowd!

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Here at BFM we like to pride ourselves on our ability to talk to high level thinkers and experts spanning a wide spectrum of business interests and specialties. Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is not one of them. This week he seems hell-bent on trying to undo some of the good work we’ve done over the years.

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Victor Yap from PC Mag SEA fills us in with updates from Google Pixel, the new Cooler Master announcement and Razer's new venture. Also this month, more on how safe you are on the Internet along with news of the recent DDoS attacks on DynDNS.

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IoT is becoming an essential part of the modern environment. However, IoT devices are far more exposed to cyber threats compared to conventional computer systems. As IoT devices are located in a hostile environment, a completely new thinking is required in order to protect the devices and more importantly the network infrastructure from cyber threats. We speak to Erel Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer of DFRC, an SME specialist in research and development of geospatial data fusion and analysis applied to Safety and Security, Crowd Monitoring and Smart Cities about protecting your current IoT network from new cyber security threats.

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Southeast Asia, as a region, is experiencing exponential growth according to economists. The 10 ASEAN countries combined make up the seventh-largest economy in the world. Southeast Asia is also the world’s fastest growing Internet region with a user base of 260 million that is set to grow to 480 million by 2020. Rate of digital adoption here in unmatched. People in Philippines send more texts that any other country, and Jakarta is the world’s number 1 city for tweets. What about the internet economy? Well even that’s expected to grow to USD$200 billion by 2025. So how then can SMBs in Southeast Asia seek out the best opportunities and drive growth in this vibrant business environment? We speak to Ivan Epstein, President of Sage International and Chairman of the Sage Foundation about the challenges and opportunities in the SMB market in Southeast Asia.

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Research has shown that companies that receive funding from the right investors have an added 25% probability of survival. As the need for connecting with the best investors becomes more and more crucial, BEAM, a new platform for entrepreneurs is now helping bridge this gap, with investors, developers, designers and journalists. Kenneth Ho & Wallace Ho, the co-founders of BEAM (Bridging Entrepreneurs and Movers) is on the show today to talk about how this platform could be the solution to all aspiring and struggling entrepreneurs.

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The Geeks discover a new species of dinosaur that weighs in almost 18,000 kilograms and how AI could make or break our civilisation.

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One of the mainstays of the global economy is that we buy things and own them. The sharing economy once held some small promise of escaping this acquisitional rat race for a more equitable model. Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has been putting his planet-sized brain – I wonder who wrote this introduction? – to use by wondering who will benefit from the share economy of the future.

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Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia talks about Thean Eu's telco report comparing their numbers in various categories, ChemCaper and the education gaming industry, Indonesia's Mahatari Mall securing USD$100 million funding and why Belazee had to pivot.

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According to Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak, the government targets the digital economy to contribute approximately 20% to the Gross Domestic Product by 2020. He also said the digital economy would be the focus of the 2017 Budget that will be announced on Friday by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. This greater level of government digitisation could potential be the key to reach this digital economy target. We speak to Alex Loh, VMWare Country Manager to talk about how this could benefit Malaysia overall and pre-budget 2017 wishlist for the tech space.

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