Tech Talk

The Digital Tax is here and will start on Jan 2020. As we are only a few months away, how can you better prepare yourself and your business for this new tax on foreign digital services?

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According to Nikkei Asian Review, there are 900 tech startups in Malaysia where the government has been supporting them with numerous initiatives, from tax holiday for up to 10 years for qualifying startups to the numerous education/talent pools, initiated by various federations in the country. And to build a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem, Malaysia launched MaGIC to further foster and develop a vibrant startup ecosystem in Malaysia and beyond. However, with new technologies changing business models and affecting the Malaysia economy by disrupting numerous businesses as well as creating new possibilities, the entrepreneurial mindset is also needed to turn ideas into actions. How does analytics and IoT contribute to nurture local entrepreneurs in the data-driven era?

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Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about a machine-learning model from Facebook’s AI research group suggest tweaks to your outfit, pointing a possible future of algorithm. Also, now it’s your chance to name a moon, 20 of them in fact, found orbiting Saturn.

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As we approach Budget 2020, we look into the proposed legislation on the tax on digital services that was revealed in the previous Budget. Ng Sue Lynn of KPMG Tax Services talks to us about what businesses should expect, the extent to which the Tax on Digital Services will affect consumers and expectations for the upcoming Budget.

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Data breaches are becoming more apparent in the Malaysian business landscape. Just a couple of years ago, Malaysia witnessed its largest mobile data breach with over 46 million users affected. We speak to CyberSecurity Malaysia on why organisations struggle with cloud security and their initiative to curb cloud related data breach.

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Squaking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about Russia. From how they plan to cut the internet and gene edited babies.

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SensorFlow is a smart energy management startup from Singapore that combines IoT and AI to automate energy consumption for hotel buildings more sustainable and energy-efficient. It was created from the realisation that tourism and hospitality industry is one of the biggest contributors to global energy demands and carbon emissions. And in line with Malaysia’s sustainability reform agenda, we speak to the founder of SensorFlow, Sai, about the ever-evolving landscape of the travel industry and the obstacles it faces as it moves towards being more sustainable.

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As Malaysia is taking further strides in embracing IR 4.0, the ultimate enable of this autonomous functionality will be ‘Fast Data’ - the capability of machines to process and analyse vast amounts of information in real time. Micron Technologies are one of the giants of the memory and data industry and with its Centre of Excellence for SSD which is being built in Penang, the opportunity now finally meets our growth ambitions. We speak to the CEO of Micron Technologies, Sanjay Mehrotra, on the future of this sector.

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The Geeks talk about how Will Smith played himself in his current age and a 28-year old of himself in his next upcoming movie. Also, what went down during the Storm Area 51 event.

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Started in early 2010s, first in Scandinavia and then in the US before reaching Asia and then the rest of the world, 4G technology became a foundational technology which the smartphone revolution was built and the infamous saying “there’s an app for that”. Photo sharing, video streaming, social media, e-commerce and other mobile applications became part of our daily routine thanks to 4G. But as the 5G era is upon us, is there any future left for 4G?