Tech Talk

Anubavam is a company that offers consulting and technology solutions that deliver web and mobile experiences to its clients. With over 150 clients spread across 23 countries, their client base range from large enterprises to emerging tech companies. With their product Creatrix Campus, they aim to help transform and thrive in a rapidly changing world through digital learning, student retention and success, with a specific focus on accreditation and assessments for their higher education clients. We speak to Sivakumar Veerapan, Founder and CEO of Anubavam to hear more about their business.

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An AI that creates ghost images from our subconscious, a shotgun-wielding man in hot pants, penguins with accents, and photosynthesis in the dark. That’s some weird science.

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For this session of Tech Talk, Joe Lee, Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales at Forter joins us to discuss how his company is making digital commerce safer and more secure. Forter is a trust platform for digital commerce where immediate assessments of trustworthiness are made across every stage of the buying process. Notable brands such as Nordstrom, Sephora, Instacart, Adobe and Priceline have trusted Forter to process more than $500 billion worth of transactions.

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Is Uber taking us for a ride? The e-hailing company is the latest subject of a whistleblowing data drop. And, the company that didn’t seek a sale is suing the man who doesn’t want to buy it. The strange saga of Elon Musk and Twitter.

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Instarem is a low-cost payments platform dedicated to serving this group of overseas workers to make their payment transfers to their loved ones instant, seamless, and faster. Michael Minnasian the VP and Regional head of Instarem, explains how Malaysia is one of the largest corridors among Instarem’s users, seeing a large volume of payment transactions both the sending and receiving across the region.   

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On this episode of Weird Science, a missing Crypto Queen, why we like people who smell like us, fasting for your nerves, and a crime predicting AI. And why you shouldn’t drink coffee while shopping.

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which-friendships-matter-to-us/

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attractive-to-mosquitoes/

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racist-and-sexist-prejudice/

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per-cent-accuracy/

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finding-onecoin-cryptoqueen-ruja-ignatova

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Founded by a group of friends who started by scribbling their ideas on a piece of paper during the pandemic, Custella today is a workforce optimization tool which has gotten traction from several companies and from markets like Australia and Singapore. 

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Automaker Ford recently announced a direct-to-consumer sales model for its EVs. We look at why the car industry is

lagging behind other retail sectors and highlight some of the advances in hybrid retail.

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Flexi working is here to stay and, with it, the need to stay connected.  Staying connected, however, is contextual and, if one thinks about it, in the current environment, work is not a place where you go to but based on the context of where you are. Recognising this, GoTo (previously known as LogMeIn, Inc), one of the world's largest SaaS companies, offers location agnostic and scalable solutions to help cost-conscious SMEs to connect, engage, and integrate their people, culture, and business in the new environment. 

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Neural networks can now create photo-realistic images from simple text inputs. As AI makes inroads into diverse professions, ranging from architecture to accounting, are these entry-level AIs displacing the next generation of white collar workers?

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