Outsources go global

One glance at the travel itinerary of Natarajan Chandrasekaran will tell you just how dramatically the post-recession economy is changing. Since October, when he became CEO of Indian IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chandrasekaran has retraced the business trips his predecessors have been making for years to New York City and London, the home cities of big banks and other companies that have traditionally outsourced computer programming and other work to Indian firms. Continue Reading

Google builds a better browser

After years of dominating search on the Web, Google is looking to change the way we go about surfing it. A little more than a year ago, it launched the beta version of Google Chrome for Windows. Continue Reading

The year of Twitter and Facebook

LOS ANGELES: Twitter, fuelled by smart phones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace to become the world’s leading social network. Continue Reading

China’s economic rise is top news story of decade

LOS ANGELES: The rise of China as an economic superpower was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept 11, according to an analysis by a US-based media tracking group. Continue Reading

Government admits internet service in Malaysia bad

KUALA LUMPUR: The government has finally admitted that the quality of internet service in the country is bad. Continue Reading

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Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Dr Lim Kok Wing, the Founder and President of Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, does not fit into any ordinary mould that would describe most entrepreneurs.

His journey has been closely linked with the economic and social development of Malaysia.

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Malaysians invested US$14.05 billion abroad in 2008, almost double the US$8.05 billion the country received in foreign direct investment (FDI), according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s World Investment Report 2009.

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