Tech Talk

It is imperative for people and businesses to change the way they operate today, as the way to interact with technology has begun to shift. The Asia Pacific region is at the center of this shift. Today’s business environment has been increasingly globalized due to technology shifts, increased global complexity, and emerging IT megatrends, which has resulted in a need for businesses to be able to react rapidly to signals, threats and opportunities. Alvaro Celis, Vice President Microsoft Asia Pacific and Carlos Lacerda, MD of Microsoft Malaysia sat down to talk about SMEs in Malaysia and the Cloud.

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What if you could deliver real-time personalized offers to your customer as they approached your store? Proximity Based Messaging allows you to send offers instantly to get your customer back to the checkout at the right time. Take this one step further and use past purchasing behavior and online browsing patterns to generate offer content, to take the digital experience in-store to retarget your customer’s offline. Anan Saminathen and Shah Besri, the CEO and COO of i-Pixel Tech talks about Satchel, a new social commerce market place and Withinity, an application for retailers to utilize proximity based messaging using iBeacon Technology created by Apple Inc.

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We've heard a lot about satellite images over the last few weeks. But how much do we actually know about what goes into reading and deciphering these images? There are only 500 trained specialists in the world who are trained and qualified to study satellite imagery.

Melisa Idris from the BFM News Desk speaks to one of these individuals. Forbes McKenzie is the Managing Director at McKenzie Intelligence Group, and a qualified imagery analyst. He's been looking at the satellite images in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

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Did Microsoft really wanted to acquire WhatsApp too? The Geeks spoke to Bill Gates via telepathy and found out some interesting insider information. They also spoke about Google's upcoming wearable technology that involves a microphone being jammed inside your throat.

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Who ever heard of a futurist with his head in the past? Well, that’s what Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage claims to be. And this week he’s going to remind us what the Internet used to be like.

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Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia is back and this time, he talks about how Malaysian VC's have invested USD$800 million in 2013 but where did the money go? He also talks about iBuy, an e-commerce company listed on the ASX), as they look to China to fast track its path to profitability and whether is that a good move? And last but not least, Karamjit talks about Singapore is bringing out the "Hero" in all of us.

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Uber is a luxury alternative for getting around the Klang Valley. Run entirely from an app on your smartphone, it offers premium luxury taxi’s that will is more like your personal driver than a taxi. We speak to the Alan Jiang from Uber Malaysia and find out what are Uber's plans in Malaysia and how are they challenging the likes of similar services that are much cheaper.

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The VFX industry has taken a huge hit recently but we still rely and demand a lot based from recent movies. We find out what is the current status of the VFX industry and what role does Asia play.

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Earlier this year, about 20 million South Korean credit card details were stolen – a theft that ranks as one of the largest data breaches the country has witnessed and claimed the scalps of two dozen of the country’s top finance executives. Here with me today is Aslam Mohammad, Senior Consultant at FICO to talk about cleaning up the data breach storm.

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The Geeks talks about Microsoft's virtual personal assistant that has a rather unique name and they discuss what Facebook is planning to buy next!

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