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Are Facebook and Google getting too big for us?

“The owners of the platform giants consider themselves the masters of the universe, but in fact they are slaves to preserving their dominant position,” business magnate and philanthropist, George Soros chillingly stated during his World Economic Forum (WEF) speech in Davos this year. Soros was referring to the immense influence that companies like Google and Facebook had amassed – creating a new “monolithic power” in the world today.

27 January 2018
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Google Cloud AutoML holds great potential for ASEAN

The uniqueness of Google’s new cloud machine learning software, Cloud AutoML, is that it is a foundational software for the democratisation of artificial intelligence for worldwide use. With AI being the next frontier of future economic development, it is even more imperative that such expertise becomes accessible to everyone on an equal level.“Currently, only a handful of businesses in the world have access to the talent and budgets needed to fully appreciate the advancements of ML and AI.

20 January 2018
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Hyundai speeds development of robot taxis to catch Google, GM

In the future of transportation, what would you get if you mixed the business models of Tesla Inc., Google and Samsung Electronics Co. with the budget of the world’s fifth-biggest automaker?Chi Young Cho is about to find out.Hired from Samsung, Chi has assembled a team of 200 researchers at Hyundai Motor Co., the 50-year-old South Korean carmaker that fought its way to the top echelon of the auto world and is now struggling to stem flagging sales in some of its biggest markets.

4 January 2018
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Google to open Beijing AI centre in latest expansion

Google is deepening its push into China as it seeks an edge in one of technology’s most competitive fields: artificial intelligence.The Alphabet Inc. unit will announce the opening of a new Beijing research facility on Wednesday during its second annual developers conference in Shanghai, the company said.

13 December 2017
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Block porn or be blocked, Indonesia warns Google, Twitter

Indonesia has threatened to bar the world’s biggest social-media providers from operating in the country unless they comply with stringent demands to filter pornography and other content deemed obscene.Twitter, Alphabet, Google and a host of companies have been put on notice by Indonesian Communications Minister Rudiantara, who warned that “all platforms” now face serious consequences if they don’t adhere to government requests to block content.“The worst case is I will not allow them to be i

17 November 2017
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Can Southeast Asians survive without mobile apps?

Apps. They’re everywhere.They’ve permeated so many facets of our lives that we probably don’t even realise how dependent we’ve become on the dozens (or hundreds) of little icons littered across our phones and tablets.This explosion of app-dependence isn’t surprising, by any means. The Southeast Asian region is home to some of the most tech-savvy people in the world. Over half of the region’s population, 339.2 million people to be exact, are connected to the internet.

22 October 2017
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An overview of ASEAN's digital landscape

Fifty years since its formation, all 10 of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states have seen rapid urbanisation. While the total population within Southeast Asia has reached over 640 million people in 2017, the internet penetration rate across has only reached 53 percent, which translates to 339.2 million internet users, as stated in the Digital in 2017: Southeast Asia report released by Hootsuite and We Are Social.

18 September 2017
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