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Since 'the geek shall inherit the earth', this geek is just waiting for his day to rule the world. In the meantime, he is a young Padawan for CNET Asia whilst toying with a myriad of fun stuff disguised as work and pretending to advise companies on tech business and new media strategies. His playmates range from startups, (un)Fortune 500s, to government organisations.
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  • 14Oct

    This geek has never worked with Greenplum or EMC technologies but it seems that in this information age over spilling with data, the manageability of information is more important than ever. For those of you who work with these technologies or have a need to manage large amounts of data, this press release might be interesting for you:

    Singapore, October 14, 2010 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today introduced the new EMC® Greenplum® Data Computing Appliance, an integrated data warehouse system using the breakthrough Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.  It enables organizations to more efficiently make sense of the massive amounts of data they generate from various sources such as always-on networks, the Web, consumers, surveillance systems and sensors. With twice the data loading speed of its nearest competitor and the industry’s best performance, the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance enables more data to be analyzed faster and at lower costs.

    The new system was developed and is shipping just 75 days following EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum and comes at a time when IDC predicts that the amount of data over the next decade will grow 44-fold. The disruptive data warehousing technology from Greenplum is a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics, allowing organizations to store, manage and closely analyze terabytes of detailed data for faster business insight, conclusions and revelations.  Greenplum is the foundation of EMC’s new Data Computing Products Division, which is developing the analytic tools to address the “big data” phenomenon.

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  • 23Sep

    More announcements from Friendster today. Is anybody still interested in Friendster? Maybe in S.E. Asia since MOL is more familiar with these markets. The numbers will show over time I guess. If this geek was running Friendster, I’d probably try to take on more niche but fast growing markets like mobile social networking, or privacy-enhanced social networking, basically hitting areas where Facebook will find hard to move into quickly for their sheer size and corporate direction.

    This announcement seems to coincide with Group CEO for MOL Global and Friendster Ganesh Kumar Bangah’s opening keynote presentation this morning at Singapore’s largest social media event: the Social Media World Forum Asia (This geek moderated the social gaming panel with RockYou, Zynga, CyWorld, and Plus8Star yesterday), in exactly an hour from now. Not at the conference? You can follow the tweets for more on his presentation which starts in about an hour from now.

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    SINGAPORE, 23 September, 2010 – Friendster, a leading social networking site for young Asians, today announced that it is launching social media portals for music and social gaming fans in Asia.

    The portals are the latest ventures from Friendster which was acquired in December last year by MOL Global (www.molglobal.net), one of Asia’s leading online payment companies.

    “As a social networking site, Friendster has tremendous experience to make the Friendster Music and Friendster Games as socially connected portals for developers, artists and their fans. Friendster has a strong physical presence in Asia and now that it is part of MOL Global, we see huge opportunities to partner with developers and independent musicians to aid them in new ways of delivering and monetising their content to their fans,” said Ganesh Kumar Bangah, Friendster’s CEO and Group CEO for MOL Global.

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  • 02Jul

    Came across this post by Brett: Why Developers Should Never Agree to an Earnout… which reminds me of my own sad story of an earnout deal which although was much smaller, basically had similar endings. The profit targets were not met because the guys who took over changed the business strategy not too long after taking over. Makes me wonder how many other high profile M&A deals the likes of YouTube, etc had the same problems?

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  • 08May

    Making data protection more intelligent, policy-driven and easy-to-manage while ensuring information is protected at rest, in use and in motion 

    SINGAPORE – May 7, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc., two privately-held leaders in the email and data encryption market, which will extend its ability to help customers secure and manage their most critical information. Under the terms of the agreements, Symantec will acquire PGP Corporation for a purchase price of approximately US$300 million in cash and GuardianEdge for a purchase price of approximately US$70 million in cash. The agreements are subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and are expected to close during the June quarter.

    Encryption technology is an important element of an information-centric security solution, as critical information is increasingly on mobile devices and in the cloud. State and national governments are enacting more stringent and costly compliance mandates, such as the HITECH and UK Data Protection Acts, which are driving the need to encrypt sensitive information and protect an individual’s privacy. Also, the increased costs and frequency of data breaches are driving the adoption of encryption as companies strive to mitigate risk and protect their critical information from cybercriminals.

    By bringing together PGP and GuardianEdge’s standards-based encryption capabilities for full-disk, removable media, email, file, folder and smartphone, with Symantec’s endpoint security, data loss prevention and gateway security offerings, Symantec will have

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  • 14Apr

    Pretty interested to see how the integration with Omniture worked out since I’m a long time user of SiteCatalyst. Following is the press release from Adobe (you can also check out #csbuzz on Twitter):

    SINGAPORE — April 13, 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection, a breakthrough release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Focusing on interactivity, performance, and maximising the impact of digital content and marketing campaigns, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools while delivering significant workflow enhancements to designers and developers. Integrating online content and digital marketing optimisation capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection includes access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyse Read more…

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  • 19Jan

    Received this in my inbox a couple of hours back:

    19 January 2010

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    For Chinese version, please click
    http://www.hk.jal.com/cms/contents/local/jal_news_4408.html
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    To all our valued customers,

    This is to confirm that Japan Airlines is now Read more…

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  • 27Jul

    Some of you might have read about a new investment which I just made which I couldn’t announce earlier.

    I’ve finally completed the investment this month and it’s now official: I’m privileged to be able to advise and invest in the company which owns and operates Singapore’s most well-read entrepreneurship and startup site: SGEntrepreneurs.com (SGE).

    SGE seeks to provide the most comprehensive coverage on Singapore’s startup and entrepreneurship scene and some of the startups featured in SGE have gone on to feature in renowned international sites like Mashable, TechCrunch, KillerStartups, folksonomy, Malaysia Entrepreneurs, etc.

    You can read SGE’s announcement about this investment in their latest ’state of the site’ report as well as check out the updated team bio.

    This geek is definitely looking forward to an exciting journey ahead working with the good folks at SGE and if you are a startup, an entrepreneur, or toying with the idea of starting out, do feel free to ping us and pop by often!

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  • 19Mar

    Totally unimaginable 2-3 years back, but the writing’s been on the wall for a while now.

    ZDnet seems to think that it makes sense.

    If it does happen, would be really interesting to see it’s impact to HP. It’d probably give mySQL a lot more mileage and acceptance, unlikely to do much for DB2 even if IBM kills mySQL.

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  • 29Jan

    I read a Gartner report just 1-2 years back that Nortel was the market leader in Unified Communications (UC). That perception seemed to hold even as I talked to people in this industry over the past 1-2 years, although the CISCO/Microsoft UC solution set was always a very strong contender for market leadership.

    For a while, I thought maybe Nortel was a company that could have a strong future in UC. Alas, Avaya took over the leadership recently and that seems to have sounded the death knell for Nortel as they file for Chapter 11. Another victim of the economic crisis? Or just the overdue death of a weak company?

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  • 12Dec

    Just put up an exclusive interview with the founder of Match.com and Interwoven. Read it at my CNET Asia blog here.

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