Category Archives: internet

Coming to terms with terms (Digitisation)

By | June 19, 2022

There’s lots of grey when it comes to three terms that as a journalist I used rarely because they were such turn-offs to readers and editors alike. But companies like them and they’re useful, up to a point, to help us understand this process we’re going through. The terms are digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation.… Read More »

Another ‘Web 2.0 isn’t what you think it is’ post

By | February 2, 2022

I really don’t want to add to the web3 debate (not least because I have skin in the game, advising a PR agency that works with DeFi firms), except to make some observations about its predecessor. I feel on safer ground here because was there, I know what I saw: Web 2.0 wasn’t what most… Read More »

Big, or Bigger: Southeast Asia’s Tech Economy in 2025

By | October 11, 2019

Google and Temasek have been taking a crack at estimating and predicting the size of Southeast Asia’s ecommerce economy for the past four years, starting in 2016 (yes, I know that’s three years but they’ve put out four reports, the latest this week, so there.)  I’ve not had a close look at this report, there’s… Read More »

Connected cows, cars and crockery prod chip mega mergers

By | June 9, 2015

My Reuters piece attempting to place the recent chip mergers in a longer timeline. Yes, I hate the term internet of things too.  Connected cows, cars and crockery prod chip mega mergers | Reuters: SINGAPORE/TAIPEI | BY JEREMY WAGSTAFF AND MICHAEL GOLD Chip companies are merging, signing $66 billion worth of deals this year alone… Read More »