U.S. stock markets have gone bonkers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at its 8th straight record high on Friday. The DJIA is now at record high – above 22,000 – and already people are talking and singing about 23,000, and beyond, as if the musical chairs game will never stop. It will stop eventually, […]
... written on Aug 07 2017WhatsApp is one of the few foreign messaging apps available in mainland China. Although not as popular as the locally-made app WeChat, the American-made app is favoured by some for its end-to-end encryption. But it appears not even Mark Zuckerberg’s fluency in Mandarin could help WhatsApp in China, which he acquired for US $19 billion […]
... written on Jul 19 2017What does it take to land at job at Facebook? In case you hadn’t the clue, this year (2017) is the best year to get a job at Facebook, simply because you stand a better chance than previous year. How come? That’s because co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed last year that Facebook’s top priorities will […]
... written on Jul 14 2017Let’s face the fact – jobs are getting scarce while job seekers are getting plentiful. To make matter worse, robots are competing with human for jobs. Soon, burger-flipping will be a job reserved for robot only. Heck, even prostitution would need to fight for their rights as sex robots, thanks to AI (artificial intelligence), are […]
... written on Jul 06 2017Facebook has surpassed 2-billion active users. Officially, the social media is also used by 27% of the entire planet Earth. Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter of congratulations to Facebook users, thanking them for using his product. While it took 8 years – from 2004 until October 2012 – to reach the first billion […]
... written on Jun 29 2017Forbes has just released its compilation of the richest person in every state of the United States of America. The U.S. has more billionaires than any other country in the world, at least that was what Forbes claims. China would, of course, dispute this claim as a different study showed the Middle Kingdom of China […]
... written on Jun 22 2017Theresa May was widely expected to fill in the big shoes of Margaret Thatcher. But it appears this Conservative Party leader and second female prime minister of United Kingdom is no difference than German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Not only Theresa May is clueless on where to drive the Britain after Brexit, she’s now equally clueless on […]
... written on Jun 05 2017Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and the world’s richest man, never got a college degree. Not that he cares, but getting a degree wasn’t his priority when most students would be fighting tooth and nail to get into Harvard. He met fellow student Steve Ballmer at Harvard. Unlike Ballmer who stayed and graduated, Gates left […]
... written on May 17 2017When non-Muslims in Malaysia cry about discrimination, racism and oppression, the Malay-Muslims would go berserk and tell them to go back to India (for the ethnic-Indians) or “Tongsan (China)” (for the ethnic-Chinese) or whatever place they came from, despite the fact that some of the Indians’ and Chinese’ ancestors arrived on this land long before […]
... written on Apr 21 2017One very interesting fact about 2016 presidential election is the excessive involvement in politics by business organizations or individuals who are not supposed to. Besides fulltime politicians, it appears individuals, organizations and agencies somehow found themselves indulge in politics – teachers, Hollywood celebrities, spy agencies and billionaires. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is one of many […]
... written on Feb 27 2017
