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January 13th, 2021 | by
Alfred Siew WhatsApp is learning that you can lose customers as fast as you win them virally, thanks to privacy concerns on its new usage...
July 8th, 2020 | by
Alfred Siew Looking at online sentiment alone, you would be hard pressed to predict the outcome of GE2020 in Singapore, or even say if the contest will be...
February 25th, 2020 | by
Alfred Siew By looking through and adjusting your Facebook ad preferences, you can reduce the number of annoying ads that think they know you....
February 3rd, 2020 | by
Alfred Siew It's true that fake news spreads as fast as a coronavirus. But not having the right information in time to make the right decision is also...
January 6th, 2019 | by
Alfred Siew So much has unravelled in 2018 that the new year promises to take the polish off technology transformations even more. What's underneath, we may not...
December 27th, 2018 | by
Grace Chng It has been a tumultuous year for the technology industry, ironically at a time when technology has become all-pervasive....
June 14th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew If Facebook and Twitter once promised a free flow of views in the past, they are now driving people back to find aprivate social network for...
March 23rd, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew Governments can and should compel the likes of Facebook to be more transparent about their practices, but they should not be depended on as the arbiters of...
January 24th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew Though Facebook wants to moderate some of the extreme elements of the network, it is rather late now to set new rules after the game has kicked...
February 9th, 2016 | by
Alfred Siew Net neutrality may be a controversial topic on which not everyone agrees. But clearly, in this case, free isn't good enough. It has to be fair as...
January 1st, 2016 | by
Alfred Siew You will love the new technology coming your way in 2016, but it will no longer be with the wide-eyed awe of...
February 16th, 2013 | by
Alfred Siew The breach will challenge the recent conventional wisdom that it's safer to keep your data online with big companies with high firewalls than to store them on your own PC and network....
October 9th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew When she posted those insensitive remarks on Facebook, Amy Cheong probably never expected, in even her worst nightmares, that she’d be sacked the next day and hounded out of the country by an angry online community. Yet,...
July 8th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew The online service started in Singapore works a little like Pinterest meets Facebook meets Trip...
June 11th, 2012 | by
Raymond Lau Singapore-based Starcount collects data from 11 major social networks in the world, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Sina Weibo, and measures how popular your favourite movie star or popular figure is on social...
April 10th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew What now for privacy and are we returning to the excesses of the dot.com days? These are among the questions that users and market watchers are asking after Facebook's acquisition of Instagram for a cool US$1...
February 2nd, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew One thing that investors will read about is this troubling reminder of the threat coming from rival social networking efforts from the likes of Google, which can take away key advertising...
December 23rd, 2011 | by
Raymond Lau With a successful initial public offering and the recent opening of its Asia Pacific (APAC) headquarters in Singapore under its belt, professional networking website LinkedIn is gearing up for more growth in the coming year...
December 16th, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew From the angry to the sarcastic, Singapore's frustrated train commuters have taken to Facebook pages - real and fake - to vent their unhappiness at the massive train disruption...
September 27th, 2011 | by
Lester Hio Going on the Internet is so important to its wired Gen Y users today that they rate it as something as essential and basic as air, food, water and shelter, according to a report released late last...
