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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Mayank Agarwal is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Hubilo . The future of events is global, asynchronous and immersive, forcing event marketing strategies born in the analog age to evolve. In a post-pandemic world, event professionals must seamlessly blend the experience of in-person connection and digital convenience. Driving this transition forward are the upcoming digital natives who have never known a world without the internet. However, updating your strategy to meet the future doesn’t have to be alienating or overwhelming. Choosing The Right Platform Millennials, born between 1981-1996, make up the largest group of the American workforce, followed closely by Generation X (1965-1980). These two generations, digital immigrants who knew life before the internet, now lead teams and make decisions in their businesses. Many of these event professionals are trying to balance capturing—and … [Read more...] about Transforming The Events Space For Digital Natives

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Co-founder and CEO of Adverity . Companies have stared bleakly into the digital skills void for some time, with data chasms looking especially vast. In 2015, it was estimated there would only be enough data scientists to meet half of the global demand within a few years. By 2019, 90% of executives in all sectors were facing gaps, and 43% cited data analytics as their biggest skills problem. According to the latest studies, almost 7 in 10 firms worldwide are struggling to fill vacancies—the highest rate in 15 years. While ongoing challenges run across industries and departments, issues are most concerning in teams where shrewd data use is essential to drive important, far-reaching decisions. Of course, we’re talking about marketing; however, the choices marketers make have an enormous influence on the ultimate success of any company. So, given recent findings that marketer data proficiency is low , such … [Read more...] about Recruitment Alone Isn’t Going To Bridge Marketing’s Digital Skills Gap

Sebastian Partogi (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta   ● Thu, December 3, 2020 2020-12-03 17:41 533 d66dcbf21949a93b498053ceec3c4812 1 Science & Tech Tokopedia,Indonesian-economy,foreign-direct-investment,e-commerce Free You might have heard the bad news already: Indonesia’s economy has just entered its first recession since the 1998 Asian financial crisis, bringing two decades of economic expansion to an end as the coronavirus pandemic has caused a sharp economic slowdown, throwing millions into poverty and out of jobs. Economically speaking, a recession is defined as contractions in two consecutive quarters, causing a significant decline in economic activity to spread across the economy, resulting in fewer jobs, people earning and spending less, as well as businesses grinding their expansions to a halt or even ceasing their operations altogether. As a result of the pandemic, the Indonesian economy shrank 3.49 percent in the third quarter after contracting … [Read more...] about Global firms remain upbeat about Indonesia’s digital economy

Customers will have to enter the details afresh for each transaction from July 1 Starting July 1, payment aggregators and gateways and merchants onboarded by them will not be allowed to store credit and debit card data of customers on their platforms, as directed by the Reserve Bank of India. With a little over a month left, merchants are worried that an alternative system may not be ready in time. Payment aggregators, payment gateways and merchants can store card credentials of customers in their databases only until June 30, a deadline that has already been extended twice, most recently by six months on December 23. In the absence of an alternative mechanism, customers using their credit or debit cards from July 1 will have to enter the details afresh for each transaction, including the 16-digit card number, expiry date and card verification value (CVV). Payment companies and card networks Visa, Mastercard and RuPay are working to implement the alternative – Card on File … [Read more...] about Payment disruption fears linger as deadline nears for merchants to delete customer card data

- A + A BENGALURU (May 20): Bank Indonesia will wait a few more months to raise rates from a record low despite rising inflation and aggressive moves by the US Federal Reserve, according to a Reuters poll of economists that showed a growing minority expect a hike next month. Although inflation surged to 3.47% in April, the highest in more than four years, it is still within Bank Indonesia's 2%-4% target range, suggesting the central bank is not under immediate pressure to raise interest rates. All but two of 27 economists in the May 12-19 poll expected Bank Indonesia (BI) to hold its benchmark seven-day reverse repurchase rate at a record low 3.50% at its May 24 meeting. Two expected a 25 basis point hike. Nearly one-third of respondents, 8 of 27, said the first rate rise would be in June, and the remaining 17 said it would come at one of the monthly meetings in July-September. "Next month, we expect policymakers to lay the ground for a hawkish pivot, factoring … [Read more...] about Bank Indonesia to pull rates lever in Q3, June move possible

British Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain on Feb 8, 2022. (Reuters filepix by Tom Nicholson) - A + A LONDON (May 20): Britain on Friday said it was launching talks over a free trade deal with Mexico, looking to add services to its current agreement, as well as aiming to increase trade in the financial and digital sectors. Britain and Mexico agreed a continuation trade deal before Britain left the sphere of the European Union, but that arrangement is based on an EU-Mexico trade agreement negotiated over 20 years ago. A free-trade agreement with Mexico would also boost Britain's foreign policy tilt towards the Indo-Pacific. Mexico is a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which Britain wants to join. The free trade area, established in 2018, is now made of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, … [Read more...] about Britain launches free trade deal talks with Mexico

- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (May 20): LGMS Bhd aims to raise RM45.7 million via its initial public offering (IPO) on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia. In a statement on Friday (May 20), the independent professional cybersecurity firm said at the IPO price of 50 sen per share, LGMS will have a market capitalisation of RM228 million upon listing and raise gross proceeds of up to RM45.7 million. LGMS has earmarked RM38.2 million for business expansion including the purchase of a new office with larger space (for RM18 million), workforce expansion (RM6.5 million), capital expenditure (RM6 million) and strategic regional expansion (RM7.698 million) into fast-growing markets such as Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia. It added that the remaining RM7.5 million is to be used for working capital purposes as well as the defrayment of listing expenses. According to its IPO prospectus, the IPO entails a public issue of 91.395 million shares, and an offer for sale of 45.6 million … [Read more...] about LGMS to raise RM45.7m via ACE-Market listing

- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (May 20): Health ministers from Commonwealth countries have agreed to collaborate on several key issues pertaining to post Covid-19 recovery efforts, including in vaccine equity, building resilient health systems and bolstering health security through harnessing digital technology. The commitment was made following a two-day virtual high level annual meeting which ended Thursday (May 19), convened under the chairmanship of Jamaica’s Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, with the adoption of a joint statement outlining key priorities in tackling the present day’s complex health challenges following the pandemic. “The joint statement commits them to collaborating on bolstering health security, vaccine equity, and increasing investment in health to strengthen the resilience of health systems and advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals,” said a statement from the Commonwealth Secretariat which was made available to Bernama . … [Read more...] about Commonwealth health ministers reach consensus on key actions to address Covid-19 recovery plans

Nylah Anderson liked to dance along to TikTok and share the platform's short videos. Then, in early December, TikTok's "Blackout Challenge," which dared people to choke themselves until they almost passed out, allegedly caught 10-year-old Nylah's attention in her personalised TikTok feed. Nylah hung her mother's purse by strapping it to a hanger in the closet of her Chester home. She placed her head between the bag and the shoulder strap, putting pressure on her neck, according to court documents. The girl passed out before she could free herself and by the time her mother found her, Nylah was unconscious. The girl died five days later in a children's hospital. Nylah's mother, Tawainna Anderson, sued TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Inc, in federal court in Philadelphia late last week, accusing the social media platform of being a "dangerously defective" product whose algorithm fed the viral challenge to her daughter's "For You Page," leading to Nylah's death. TikTok's … [Read more...] about 10-year-old girl died doing a TikTok choking ‘challenge’. Her mother is suing the video platform

Indian Overseas Bank MD and CEO Partha Pratim Sengupta Indian Overseas Bank Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Partha Pratim Sengupta says the government has not approached the lender with a privatisation proposal although occasional media reports speculate about its sale. It has only been from such reports that Sengupta has got to know about the proposal, he said. In fact, the government has not even hinted that the bank will be privatized, Sengupta told Moneycontrol in an interview on May 20. Sengupta said the bank is aiming to grow its advances by 12% in the current financial year with secular growth across retail, micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME), corporate and agricultural loans. Edited excerpts: What is your growth outlook for FY23? The focus is that we should grow advances 12% year-on-year, that is our aim. So far, the credit off-take trend, I would say, is better than what we have seen for the similar period in the last financial year. … [Read more...] about Interview | Indian Overseas Bank MD says no communication from Centre on privatisation, ‘not even a hint’