Signify - Bringing light to IoT
Notepad examines what is hot in the world of business and technology. Ibrahim Sani attends global business and tech conferences like the CES, WWDC, WEF, and more, and reports directly from these locations to for you.
25m Jan 31, 2020
25m
Role of Media in Democratic Reform
Three media practitioners share insights and experience from their respective countries on how the media played a role in reforming the democratic process.
17m Dec 20, 2019
17m
Epicor: Enterprise Resource Planning Crucial
Vincent Tang, Epicor Asia Vice President shares his thoughts with Ibrahim Sani on Enterprise Resource Planning, and more. Particularly on how this would affect the SME sector.
25m Dec 10, 2019
25m
Housing Prices in 2020: Boom or Bust?
Foo Gee Jen, the Managing Director of property analyst CBRE WTW describes the situation of the housing market in 2019. He also shares his thoughts with Ibrahim Sani on what may lie ahead in 2020 for potential home buyers alike.
25m Dec 04, 2019
25m
Can MyGroser deliver much needed freshness in retail?
MyGroser has started delivering fresh groceries in the Klang Valley. Ibrahim Sani speaks with its CEO, Stephen P Francis about what the brand is all about, and why consumers should be really excited about their offering.
26m Dec 03, 2019
26m
Women's Mental Health
Assoc Prof Dr Salmi Razali, Psychiatrist & Lecturer of UiTM and Dr Deepa Sreenivasan, Women's Mental Health advocate speak with Ibrahim Sani about the issue of Women's Mental Health in the country.
18m Dec 02, 2019
18m
What's Next for HeiTech Padu?
Local IT firm, HeiTech Padu has recently struck a Joint Venture with PT Kirana Investama Nusantara Indonesia to create PT Desa Tech Nusantara. This is aimed at helping the huge unbanked population there. HeiTech Executive Vice President Salmi Nadia Mohd Hilmey speaks with Ibrahim Sani on this.
28m Dec 02, 2019
28m
UiTM's battle with Mental Health
The country's largest tertiary educator goes head-to-head dealing with mental health. Prof Dr Mohd Zamrin Dimon, Dean of the faculty of Medicine UiTM; and Dr. Jannah Nasution, lecturer and psychiatrist of UiTM speaks with Ibrahim Sani on this.
28m Nov 29, 2019
28m
Ipsos Affluent Consumer
The Affluent consumers leads the way for marketers. Who are they? What do they like or dislike? How big is this segment? Join Ibrahim Sani in his conversation with Ipsos Malaysia Managing Director Arun Menon as they demystify this consumer segment.
27m Nov 26, 2019
27m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Switching iOS - Android
Switching from an Android to an iOS phone, or vice versa seems to be a huge barrier for most phone users. But intra-OS, consumers finds it easier to switch. What does this mean for Samsung, Huawei, and others? And does this mean Apple can't grow their market share? All this and more, in this discussion between ADA's Head of Business Insights Vittorio Furlan and Ibrahim Sani.
24m Oct 21, 2019
24m
S1 Ep1310: Adakah pengguna akan untung jika Axiata gabung dengan Telenor?
Axiata dan Telenor, ibu syarikat kepada Celcom dan DiGi akan bergabung. Ramai tertanya-tanya jika pengguna akan untung sekiranya penggabungan ini akan berlaku? Ikuti perbincangan ini bersama Luqman Hariz dan Ibrahim Sani, dalam siri podcast khas ini
14m Jul 19, 2019
14m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Setahun Malaysia Baharu
Jalil Rasheed, Invesco Southeast Asia CEO takes a look at one year of the administration under the new Malaysia Baharu government.  He shares with Ibrahim Sani his take on what makes it work for this administration, and where they can improve upon.
11m May 16, 2019
11m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Building Trust
Malaysia is celebrating one year under a new government. Setahun Malaysia Baharu examines the big question of how to build trust, given that Malaysia is undergoing transformative institutional changes currently.  Pauline Ho, PwC Malaysia Assurance and People Partner speak with Ibrahim Sani on this issue.
12m May 11, 2019
12m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Creator of Pendrive
Datuk KS Pua is arguably credited as the creator of the 'pendrive'. Even though USB storage devices have been around in Israel and the US, Pua -through his company Phison- first came up with the single chip USB flash storage device. Phison has racked up USD1 bil in revenue over the years.  Ibrahim Sani speaks with Datuk Pua on his next ventures.
25m Mar 14, 2019
25m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Income Tax Season!
Ibrahim speaks with tax expert, Dr Veerinderjeet Singh, Group Non-Executive Chairman Axcelasia on what to do for this year's income tax season. They discuss what constitutes as income, and what should be looked out for under the tax regime of the Pakatan government.
27m Mar 11, 2019
27m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: 1MCB
1Malaysia Comedian Bureau, or 1MCB for short, is a stand up comedy helmed by Malaysia's finest comics. Ibrahim Sani speaks with Sulaiman Azmil, Gajen Nad, and Keren Bala Devan on their exploits to find the funny, on the worlds biggest financial heist.
27m Mar 09, 2019
27m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Larry Sng on Cambodia 47
MP of Julau, YB Larry Sng was in the thick of things when 47 Malaysians were arrested and detained for over two months, with no official charges filed against them. Larry argued that this was a human trafficking case, while the Cambodian authorities say the 47 are part of an illegal gambling syndicate.  Now with all 47 Malaysians safe on Malaysian shores, brahim Sani sits down with Larry Sng to...
26m Feb 26, 2019
26m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Golden Gate Ventures
The US is postponing further trade war action against China. Trump announced on his twitter to not proceed with the March 1st action.  Ibrahim Sani speaks with Vinnie Lauria of Golden Gate Ventures about what this means to investors, and the impact this has on the Southeast Asian economies.
12m Feb 25, 2019
12m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: EPF wants to speak with AA & MAHB
The AirAsia versus Malaysian Airports spat has gone public. And pension fund EPF, who is an investor in both firms, wants to speak to both these firms soon to understand better what is going on.
6m Feb 19, 2019
6m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Part 2 - A discussion on Bank Negara
Ibrahim Sani speaks to a panel of experts about the ongoings of the Malaysian financial system (Part 2).  Click on the link below to listen to Part 1 of the discussion. https://audioboom.com/posts/7423870-notepad-with-ibrahim-sani-part-1-a-discussion-on-bank-negara
23m Feb 10, 2019
23m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Part 1 - A discussion on Bank Negara
Ibrahim Sani speaks to a panel of experts about the ongoings of the Malaysian financial system.
22m Feb 06, 2019
22m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Macron's Quarrel
French President is ominously missing from the WEF to handle discontent at home. Is this yet another sign of nationalism movement supervening globalisation politics?
3m Jan 28, 2019
3m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Debating Culture
For a long time, debating is seen as a 'western culture'. But many parties are trying to push that stereotype away. The International Islamic University Malaysia, Syed Saddiq, even Tun Mahathir who recently spoke at the World's Oldest Debating Institution: The Oxford Union is challenging this stereotype. Ibrahim Sani is proud to push this agenda front and center on Astro AWANI.
3m Jan 24, 2019
3m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Cyber-security still a mess
Very recently, Ibrahim Sani has just been accepted into the Nigerian police force. In this day and age, people still believe in scams such as these. Why is that?
4m Dec 24, 2018
4m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: The political inevitability
When Pakatan first won the general elections, PH's so-called Presidential Council agreed that they won't take any defectors from the opposition. Things look set to change now that they've been in power for close to a year now.  Ibrahim Sani shares his.
3m Dec 22, 2018
3m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: The Innocence Of Guilt
On 1MDB investigations, in the U.S. so far two individuals have admitted guilt (George Higginbotham and Tim Leissner). In Malaysia, over ten people have been charged on the scandal, but not a single one has admitted guilt. Ibrahim Sani recaps the legal proceedings.
3m Dec 22, 2018
3m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Gulps of truths (and lies) at Google
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent close to four hours with the US Congress. They asked him all sorts of quesions, some bizarre, some quite the opposite.  Ibrahim Sani recaps that conversation.
5m Dec 17, 2018
5m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Klinik 1Malaysia dies
Klinik 1Malaysia started off life with full of vigour and promise. But it contracted a rare disease on May 9th that eventually saw its demise. Ibrahim Sani discuss its life, and death, and the illness that this clinic contracted itself with.
5m Dec 16, 2018
5m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: UMNO ripped apart
UMNO once held a super-majority in the parliament. At one point, in 2014, over 50% of the seats are held by just this single party, as part of the larger coalition that held over 90% of the total seats.
6m Dec 14, 2018
6m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Political fundraising is possible in Malaysia
Political fundraising is very much possible in Malaysia. However, due to political expediency and just plain laziness amongst poitical parties, this has not been done widely. But after PKR raised RM2.6mil from just 1 dinner, is the time now for political parties to work harder to earn their keep?
4m Dec 12, 2018
4m
Notepad with Ibrahim Sani: Of mistakes & apologies
Here's a question, if you did something wrong (no matter how big or small), and you apologized for it, should people still dredge up the past and blame you for it? If people still do this, then why apologize in the first place right?  Kevin Hart was made host of oscars, then people brought up his past, and he then turned down to host the oscars. Did his apology many years ago mean nothing?
4m Dec 10, 2018
4m