“People are tired of having to read the Economist to get news on Asia,” said Stella Borromeo Arthur, CEO of Asia360°. Apparently, this was the sentiment that spurred the founding of the weekly magazine, which is poised to soon make its proper debut. Since the drawn-out demise of the Far Eastern Economic Review late last [...]
A Dash of Entrepreneurship
Salt intern Wei-Yu Wang attended a recent gathering of the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia to hear a talk about entrepreneurship. I didn’t really know what an “entrepreneur” was. Like “businessman” (or “-woman”), it always seemed to be a rather vague descriptor of someone who didn’t actually have an occupation as such, but seemed to end [...]
Oh the humanity (in technology)!
THERE’S been a long running debate over whether our fascination with technology is crowding out our own humanity, never mind that is we ourselves who are fuelling technological change. By replacing smiles with emoticons, reducing the complexity of language to vowel-free SMS-speak, and creating products and software applications that ease our lives in almost every [...]
