Author: Karamjit Singh

MOL deepens its presence in North and Latin America
Building on its acquisition of Silicon Valley-based alternative payment platform provider Rixty Inc, MOL AccessPortal Sdn Bhd has launched the MOLPoints online game and digital goods payment platform in the United States and Brazil.
Unseen gap in ecosystem, and techies in their cocoons
There are two things missing in the Malaysian startup ecosystem -- sufficient English language proficiency and an emotional support system for entrepreneurs, writes DNA founder Karamjit Singh.
Week in Review: ‘How’s business?’
DNA founder and CEO Karamjit Singh has decided that ‘How’s business?’ is a question which he refuses to get used to. He explains why.
This ‘bus’ is worth catching
It is a journey that has taken over two years, but August this year saw Ashwin Jeyapalasingam and Viren Doshi, founders of Catch That Bus, scale a new high in their entrepreneurial journey as their website finally went live with tickets from bus companies Nice, Plusliner and Transnasional on offer.
WebCampKL founder Wu Han joins Disrupt
As the leader of the pack at the increasingly popular WebCampKL community of hackers and geeks, the ebullient Ngeow Wu Han needs little introduction within the startup scene in Kuala Lumpur. He joins DNA-TeAM’s Sept 19 Disrupt session as a panellist, alongside David E. Weekly.
Disrupt #11: Hacker lessons from the Valley
Describing himself as “a nerd who loves people, likes giving people hugs on sight, a trouble-maker with run-ins with Stanford Network Security – among others,” David E. Weekly is heading to Kuala Lumpur this week and will be a panellist on the 11th DNA-TeAM Disrupt.
Telenor’s Asia CEO Brekke on OTT and spectrum re-farming
Armed with the lessons from telcos in the west, Telenor’s Asia executive vice president Sigve Brekke feels that telcos in Asia have the upper hand when the likes of Facebook and Google come knocking.
Week in Review: There’s so much more to hackathons
We should start capturing data from the various hackathons organised so that we can spot trends and key information that arises from these gatherings of mainly technically literate young people, suggests Karamjit Singh.
Telenor – tomorrow’s Internet company
Speak to Sigve Brekke, executive vice president and head of Telenor Asia, and you realise that India has left an indelible mark on both the man and the Telenor group.
MCMC-AT&T hackathon scores with participants
The 170 participants at the inaugural Malaysia Developers’ Day jointly organised by the MCMC and AT&T got a taste of what that first step towards entrepreneurism was about, writes Karamjit Singh.
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