So much of what we do is captured in a people-powered bounty of photos and video—you see them all in your social feeds and on the news. And while it’s great when you’re, say, looking for a swatch of a newly-launched lipstick, some argue that our tendency towards content-making also …
Read More »Emergence Of Tech Winners And Losers In The COVID-19 New World Order
As every significant historical moment has its own power plays, shift in business models and societal adaptation to a new norm, the same applies to the COVID-19 new world order. Much has been said that technology companies are the true winners, but is everyone in the tech space really winning? …
Read More »The Stereotype That Sarawak Is Still Behind In Tech? This AI Startup Proves It Wrong.
Author’s Blurb: Growing up in Sarawak, I often heard from adults that Sarawak was too slow paced to have good job opportunities or even innovation. However, now I’m beginning to realise that it might not be so true, and that my hometown does have a lot to offer. People just …
Read More »Tech companies adapt as cities linger in lockdown
With billions of people around the world forced into lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, cities have virtually ground to a halt. Demand for public transport has plummeted, leading transit agencies and operators to reduce their services and put the majority of their fleets out of commission. However, many essential workers …
Read More »If a tech company sells ads, is it an ad-tech company?
If you were looking for signs of health in the ad tech market, you might look at the performance of the handful of publicly traded ad tech stocks — Criteo, The Trade Desk, Rubicon, etc — and you would get one, cautionary view on the segment. Or you might look …
Read More »Trial by fire: This year will expose the best and worst tech startups
Markets go up, then they go down. That is the way they have always worked, but we always seem shocked when the pendulum swings the other way. Even before the coronavirus started to put intense pressure on global markets, the tech startup sector was heading for a rude awakening. For …
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