Tech Talk

Earlier this year, Yahoo announced Yahoo News Digest, a mobile app that is based on their acquisition of Summly that was created by a teenager and sold it for a cool USD$33 million. Marc Lourdes, Managing Editor of Yahoo News Digest for Southeast Asia talks about News Digest and also the changes in the media landscape.

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Bullying is something that just about everyone is going to experience at some point in their life. Bullying is a part of growing up, as children often pick on others who they perceive as different. And today, with mobile phones and social networks, bullying has taken a new form. Cyber bullying. We’ve heard about it already and spoken about it as well but here today to put an end to bullies around the world is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage and Jeff Sandhu.

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Is 2015 a going to be a great year for funding? Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about what happened during Disrupt #25 and the funding challenge that entrepreneurs face and how to tackle them.

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Microsoft recently unveiled a first look of the new MSN for Malaysia and you can check out the new experience at preview.msn.com. The new MSN combines premium content from the world's leading media outlets with personal productivity tools to help you do more. We hear from Ken Chang, Head of Commercial for Microsoft Asia Pacific and Rene Menezes the CEO of Better Digital Solutions about the new MSN Malaysia experience.

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The Tor community has given tech savvy people around the world a way to keep their IP address private, which in turn enable them to be anonymous where necessary to protect their personal information from governments, criminals and commercial interests like Google. Cloak is an effort to extend the facility to ordinary people with a custom-made easy to use router. We speak to Lard Thomsen, one of the creators of Cloak, on why do we need such a thing.

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Jeff Sandhu squawks about Rosetta and the DJI Insipire One drone.

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A. Asohan and Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about their recent RM1 million funding from IdeaRiverRun and what they plan to do with the money. Also on the show, what does Khailee Ng look for in startups and Censorship 2.0 is back!

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McLaren Automotive or more commonly referred to, as McLaren is a British automotive manufacturer of high-performance vehicles, and dream cars of most men in the world. Recently McLaren launched the McLaren P1 worldwide that is a limited production plug-in hybrid supercar. But what does it mean to be McLaren owner? And what goes on in making these supercars? We speak to Syed Ahmad Muzri, Head Retails McLaren Kuala Lumpur about the brand and the technology behind it.

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According to PHD, an estimated one billion people spend at least one hour every day playing computer and videogames. But why is that people put more effort into these games than they put into their day jobs and personal relationships? Why, when they’re playing, are they content to work so hard for so long without pay? Chris Stephenson, Head of Strategy for PHD Australia talks about Game Change: The Future of Work is Play.

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Lean IT’s core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. To simply put it, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. Maurice Boon, Executive Vice President and Jeffrey Doss, Regional Director of Quint Wellington Redwood talks about current and future trends on Lean IT, IT governance and Outsourcing.

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