Category: World View
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What the world’s top five media say about Fortnite Grand Finals, and then there’s the sixth!
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Here’s a compilation of headlines reported by the world’s top five media companies today after the Fortnite Grand Finals buzz during the weekend in New York City. In cheeky comparison, I also found an article from a year ago giving a totally different perspective. And more. Headline 1. Wired UK The…
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Women on Boards
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Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index aims to get 20% of women on boards by the year 2020. Find out what you can do…
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Can the GIG economy rise above a “fiver”?
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Will the gig economy favour the giggers or the customers – shouldn’t it favour both sides as equally as it can be since we’re redesigning this new economy?
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Self. Less.
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Sephora, Sephora, Sephora! According to Wikipedia, Sephora is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH as of 1997. The Sephora logo is a white “S”-shaped flame against a black background. The name comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah (Greek: Σεπφώρα, Sepphōra), wife of Moses. In November 2018, Sephora and Google released and shared this case…
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In the USA, I’d be kneeling with Kaepernick but I’m in Malaysia so I’ll kneel with the Temiars and LGBTQs
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This post is about our humanity. It’s another one of those long public holiday weekends in Malaysia – we have many, and I was reading this article written by Ciara Linnane / Market Watch and found it quite comprehensive in grabbing all of the relevant quotes from the Nike/Kaepernick campaign.…
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Future Shock predicted Grab Uber Asia merger?
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Future Shock! In a meeting few mornings ago, our Deputy Chairman Zin Dahari mentioned a book that blew his mind as a teenager. Published in 1970, Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock gave an idea of what the future would look like. Written together with his wife Heidi, the Tofflers conjured ideas like “underwater…
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Currently reading…
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Thanks to my university buddy, Eva, I received a copy of Simon Sinek’s ‘Start with Why’ two Christmases ago and it remained in my bag for in-between destination reads. I’d like to highlight an idea from the book on how Pioneerism lost to Commercialism. Apple’s iPOD had led the way as a leader…
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Be Amazing
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Source: http://www.gointernationalgroup.com/2017/12/30/be-amazing/ Have you ever wondered what ‘ubuntu’ means? I first came across this word when upgrading our office PCs to the Ubuntu operating system about a decade ago! Little did I know, that the origin of the word, which inspired the name of the free OS, was a philosophical term…
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G’day Sydney!
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G’day Sydney! This is the place where I spent my formative 20s in university. It’s great to be back and I look forward to contributing to the Sydney start-up community with all of my experiences as a business owner since the age of 27. Let’s connect! Tweet me: @gojasminelow.
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Social entrepreneurship – the right way, anyway
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There seems to be a buzz word off the lips of every young Malaysian entrepreneur these days. A new buzz word that will make your company on the top of the list to attract ‘Gen Y’ employees. Social entrepreneurship.Cause-related marketing. Companies today are more socially conscious and it seems that…