Week in Review: Adapting to the digital reality
The upside of technology advancements and innovation are well known and this week, Karamjit Singh ponders the dire consequences of life going increasingly digital and...
Tagged: innovation
Bacardi’s Kristie Asciak heads to OMD Sydney to lead Fuse
OMD has appointed Kristie Asciak as Head of OMD Fuse, Sydney. Fuse, OMD’s Content division, has recently been responsible for delivering projects such as Qantas’ Channel...
GoSwiff appoints Mark Patrick as new CEO
GoSwiff International, a global financial solutions provider headquartered in Singapore, has appointed Mark Patrick as its new Chief Executive Officer. An accomplished leader with a...
Pizza Hut Asia trials SoftBank’s robot for MasteCard payments
MasterCard unveiled the first commerce application for SoftBank Robotics’ humanoid robot Pepper. The application will be powered by MasterPass, the global digital payment service from...
What Quartz’s App Says About The Future Of Mobile Publishing
AdExchanger | Publishers are still working out journalism on mobile devices. While basic responsive design is usually a given today, mobile article formats haven’t dramatically...
The innovative crimefighters
TESS Innovation Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian company that is at the forefront of the fight against financial crime, with its exclusive range of software,...
Apple invests $1 bn in Uber’s competitor in China, Didi Chuxing
Didi Chuxing, a mobile transportation platform, has secured USD1 billion in DiDi, creating the single largest investment the Company has ever received. Through this investment,...
Malaysia needs to accept failure: Teradata CTO
Malaysia may be ready to become the regional BDA hub, but it needs to address two main challenges: The talent gap, and the ability to...
Singaporeans prefer to use mobile wallets to pay: Study
Singaporeans are ready to make payments via their mobile phones when the various mobile payments such as Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and AndroidPay roll out...
Don’t throw money blindly at BDA projects: Gartner analyst
Companies need to view data analytics as innovation projects that have risks attached to them, and should not expect every project to yield high returns....
Ex-Mashable Exec Seth Rogin on Why He Believes in Newspapers’ Nucleus Marketing Solutions
Right now, Seth Rogin is Nucleus Marketing Solutions, the new “marketing solutions provider” formed by Gannett, Hearst, McClatchy and Tribune Publishing and announced Thursday. He’s...
Innovation can be bred: Google creativity head
Innovation and creativity may not come naturally to everyone but that doesn’t mean it cannot be fostered, encouraged and developed, according to the head of...
Isobar hires Cheyney Robinson as Chief Creative Officer
Jean Lin, Global CEO of Isobar, has confirmed that Cheyney Robinson, will join Isobar in April, as Chief Experience Officer, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Ms Robinson...
Banks: Fintech startups are your friends
Banks have the credibility, while fintech startups have the innovation – combine the two and you have a killer formula, says a senior banker. Via...
Week in Review: More money to power tech in SEA
Singapore makes clear the importance of technology and innovation in its Budget 2016, while SEA startups receive a US$15mil boost from the SuperSeed Fund. Via...
ANZ hires Google’s Maile Carnegie as Head of Digital
ANZ has appointed Maile Carnegie to the role of Group Executive Digital Banking reporting to Chief Executive Officer Shayne Elliott. Ms Carnegie joins ANZ from...
