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The businessman is employed by the business. Furthermore, a huge number of people are engaged by the business organisation in the production, distribution, and services of the firm, and income is generated for them and others. Individuals get money through business. Business employs factors of production such as land, labour, capital, and organisation to generate revenue for factor-owners in the form of wage, rent, interest, and profit.

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Everything we do derives from its long-standing character, approach and quality - while we continue to produce the print publication with as much dedication as ever.

The cover story has features Ibthisam of Banahub. BANAHUB simplifies the lives of creatives and enterprises who are having difficulty getting their work out there and depending on trustworthy specialists. It is a creative industry facilitator

that links individuals and businesses. This contains skills and professionals from various industries and enterprises who are tailored to their requirements.

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Ibthisam Director

BANAHUB Tell us about your company. Its vision and mission.

BANAHUB - is an industry enabler that connects individuals and businesses in the creative industry. That includes talents and professionals from different industries and businesses to their needs.

Mission: One-stop enabler hub creative industry.

What were the constraints you faced at the time of inception?

Initially, the BANA spent four years conducting research, conducting interviews, and gaining field experience with me in order to better understand the industry. For me, each step opened a new door that led to the current BANAHUB. It had been pitched in a competition, had been incubated and checked, and was now ready to go. Pandemic hit and shook the world, as well as the business world, to our surprise.

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elow are the highlights of the conversation between Swiftnlift Business Magazine and BANAHUB. The company was founded by Ibthisam (Director) and Bashayar (Manager) in the year 2019. We are glad to share this exclusive interview with all the readers.

It took us five months to get back up and running, so we had to pivot to get back on track. Pandemic broadened my horizons and provided me with new ways to grow the company and focus on my beliefs. It gave me the courage to work on it despite the difficulties, and I couldn't have done it without the help of my family, friends, and our team.

What services do you provide to the customers?

The services from BANAHUB: Our company, BANAHUB, makes life simpler for creatives and businesses who are having trouble getting their work out there and relying on reliable

professionals.

We are an innovative industry enabler, and through our services, we assist in the exploration and matching of skills and professionals to business needs and interests. We plan meetings, exhibits, networking sessions, seminars, and provide opportunities to interact and collaborate with other artists in the Art, Media, Writing, and Fashion sectors.

1. IMMANSE - Creatives and Artist management.

2. BANAFEST - Festival to celebrate Artists 3. BANALOG - Inhouse Megazine 4. Creative Education (navigating career PATHway) 5. Program organizing (Events, exhibition, interviews, etc.)

How do you manage to work in different areas?

One of my favourite things to do is explore the creative industry and organise activities, which I am doing now as part of this startup journey. Now that I have a team of talented, adventurous, and inspired young people on my team, it fuels our desire to learn more about our mission and to help as many artists as possible all over the world.

How do you navigate the art world?

In the art world, there are two sides: the corporate side and the artistic side. I'm more interested in

the latter, the artistic side of the art world, the people who work there, their journeys, and how they inspire others. I see a lot of common ground in artists from media, literature, and fashion, not only in art, but in other fields as well.

Painting or crafting has provided me with a great deal of inspiration and has assisted me in discovering myself. Many artists discover their passion and talents later in life, and there are no restrictions on who can follow them.

Social networking has become an integral part of how artists show their work to the public, as well as how we, as service providers and fans, discover art that we then search out in person. The benefits are undeniable, but the drawback is that there are so many fish in the ocean, and the algorithm determines what you can see.

Which current art world trends are you following? What do you think are the challenges in the industry today?

I'm particularly interested in abstracts, paintings,

and any other types of art that express a person's ethnicity or culture in a modern way.

Due to an unforeseen pandemic, the creative industry has been severely impacted since last year. Regarding the safety precautions, libraries, concert and event halls, galleries, and theatres are all closed. The sudden decline in sales has put their financial stability in jeopardy, resulting in lower wages and layoffs.

During the lockdown, some cultural and creative industries, such as online content outlets, benefited from the increased demand for cultural content streaming. The consequences are long-lasting due

to a general decline in buying power; however, at the local level, the lack of responsive public funding has an impact on cities and regions in terms of employment and revenues, levels of creativity, resident well-being, and community vibrancy and diversity.

What is your strategy to reach new industries and new customers?

To engage with our target audiences, our approach is to track trends and technology. We believe in making a difference in people's lives, so we're

growing our community and developing initiatives to explore various possibilities.

Which of your projects are you proud of and why? Also, tell us about your future ventures.

We're very proud of how far BANAFEST and our sub-brand, IMMENSE, have come. Workshops, artist partnerships, novel publishing, competitions, and more are all on the horizon.

How did you come up with the idea of BanaFest?

While studying the creative industry, I spoke with a number of creatives from diverse backgrounds from all over the world. It was fascinating and inspiring to hear their stories about their journeys and their passion for what they do, and it inspired me to record and celebrate it, so BANAFEST was born to honour the creatives and their work. We have art, media, authors, and fashion categories for BANAFEST 2021. In March, we held our first BANAFEST ART. The artists shared their stories and creative journeys, with artists from all over the world participating.

In May, BANAFEST WRITERS will take place.

It's a celebration of authors and a chance for them to tell their stories. There will be pre-shoot interviews, and they will have the opportunity to meet and network with other authors involved in the festival.

Tell us about your achievements and recognition.

■ 1st Runner among 3 finalist countries for creative business pitch in Young Entrepreneurship Program (2018) by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

■ Pitched BANAHUB programs.

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■ Currently working on a second startup company in Silicon Valley program called AFOREMIND in the mental health sector.

Details of the company  Year of Founding: 2019  Funding Information: Self-Funded  Founding Members:  Ibthisam (Director),  Bashayar (Manager)  Office Locations: Singapore  Company Strength: 7  Website: www.banahub.com

TINKERCADEMY It Is A Technology And Education Company Of Tinkerers And Teachers.

About Us Tinkertanker Pte Ltd is a technology and education company of tinkerers and teachers. We run Tinkercademy, where we teach coding and digital making to students of all ages, in a wide variety of fields such as micro: bit, iOS, Python, Arduino, Node, cyber-security, Unity, and more. We also curate and sell educational technology toys at our Get Hacking online store, and build our own tech apps and products, e.g. GuestDay, an iPad-based guest registration service; an IC Photo app for Singaporeans to take useful selfies; and Spickify, now Helpling Singapore.

For Schools  Code for Fun

AKMAL BIN ABD RAHMAN FOUNDER

We are an approved provider for the Code for Fun Enrichment Programme. Code for Fun is offered by the Infocomm Media Development Authority and the Ministry of Education for MOE primary and secondary school students.

The CFF Enrichment Programme aims to facilitate the exposure of coding and computational thinking to a large base of students, and help build an entire generation of workforce inculcated with basic coding and computational thinking skills.

Course fees for Code for Fun are subsidised by IMDA, and are pre-approved without requiring further quotation processes.

As one of the very first Code for Fun providers, we offer a set of rigorous, cost-effective courses

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introducing coding and making to large groups of students. We offer courses in Arduino electronics, micro: bit, and robotics, in both block-based and syntax-based languages.  Infocomm Learning Roadmap

The Infocomm Learning Roadmap (ICM Learning Roadmap), offered by the Infocomm Media Development Authority, provides free training for Infocomm Clubs in schools.

An ICM Learning Roadmap has been developed as a guide in structuring progressive ICM training in various ICM domains. It will be helpful for all teachers-in-charge running Infocomm Clubs and also for interested students who aspire towards particular roles in ICM. Course fees for the ICM Learning Roadmap are fully subsidised by IMDA, i.e. students undergo training at no cost to the school.

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Infocomm Tech Startups In Singapore, 2021 What’s included in Tinker X In addition to attentive guidance and mentorship, we provide:  Extensive Curriculum

We provide a wide range of course materials: intro coding, Arduino, data science, games programming.

We’ve run these courses with hundreds of students, As a pioneer Infocomm Club Approved Vendor, and they’re all available to members. We also tap on we offer a set of engaging and technically rigorous high-quality online content and can recommend courses for schools to introduce coding and content that is most suited for your current needs, making to Infocomm Club students. In 2017, and provide support whenever needed. we’re extending our Game Development offerings, introducing robotics with Sphero, Dash, and  Maker Library Arduino, and teaching Python everywhere we Don’t have the space (or you’re just too sensible) to can. put a laser cutter at home? No problem. We have the equipment you need to make and tinker: a reference library of books and electronics modules, laser cutter, For Individuals vacuum former, 3D printer, circuit printer, soldering station, miter saw, and more. We also have a library Tinker X is an open, self-directed learning programme of kits and robots you can tinker with: Arduino for coding and engineering enrichment, blending CTC 101 toolbox, Hummingbird kit, Pi-Top, Turing instruction and independent study. We give you the Tumble, Marty the Robot, drones, littleBits kits, tools you need to learn, and support you as you learn, Sphero, Dash, and more. whether that’s following a curriculum from us or online, or working on a self-initiated project.  Community Future-proofing ourselves in an Industry 4.0 world It can get lonely learning on your own. Even if you requires taking initiative and risks to develop do not talk to anyone else here at Tinker X, it is still competencies such as critical and inventive thinking, inspirational and motivational to join a community grit and problem solving skills. A self-directed of like-minded people who just want to see what programme facilitates that. happens when you connect this to that and spend hours tinkering with code and electronics. We love Our centre is open for consultation hours on Saturdays to see people learn and grow. To that end, we offer from 10am-4pm. Come by to get individualised scholarships to enthusiastic and passionate young expert instruction, guidance, and mentorship. Our students, so that they can contribute back to the makerspace, with a 3D printer, laser cutter, circuit community with their new skills and knowledge. See printer, electronics library and various kits, is also below for details. available for use.

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ANDREW REBERRY CO-FOUNDER AND CTO

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If you're purchasing the domain outright, you'll be able to transfer the domain to any registrar — remember that we cannot accept returns on domains that have been transferred. If you finance the domain with a payment plan, you can still manage the domain, but it will have a registrar lock preventing the transfer until the payment plan is completed.  Financing options Because domains are one-of-a-kind and sell fast, if you don't get the one you want today, someone else might buy it. For this reason we provide a variety of payment options designed to make your decision easier and more streamlined. Choose from Escrow. com, payment plans, PayPal, and more. We also offer a variety of payment plans, so financing the domain right for you is easier than ever.

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ARCSTONE PTE LTD It Is A Fast-Growing Manufacturing Software Company Providing The Tools For Industry 4.0 And Beyond.

About Us With a mission to accelerate the digitization of the global supply chain, Arcstone is a fast-growing manufacturing software company providing the tools for Industry 4.0 and beyond.

By working with us, manufacturers gain better visibility and optimization of their production processes. By digitally monitoring, maintaining and controlling manufacturing equipment and processes, they can better unlock the value of data. Our toolsets provide management and workers an intuitive and powerful solution for running their day-to-day operations, with the ability to visualize and optimize their facilities in real time.

WILLSON DENG FOUNDER & CEO

We have successfully delivered our solutions to global and innovative companies across multiple industries, with Arcstone's current suite of tools operating in facilities across Asia Pacific, to power them towards the digital age of manufacturing.

Our Mission To provide manufacturers with the power to see, the power to act, and the power to control Leveraging Arcstone's experience in manufacturing execution systems, arc.net provides insight into the 20

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manufacturing of your orders. You can integrate arc.net with existing tools and ERP systems to provide a holistic view of your entire supply chain from raw materials to finished good.

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Our Presence Arcstone's International Team Headquartered in Singapore, Arcstone also has three offices in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam to better serve our clients and partners across Asia Pacific.

In addition to these countries, Arcstone operates in various markets across the region including Malaysia, Thailand, and China. The next chapter in manufacturing is Industry 4.0 Smart Factories ■ Real time ■ Connected ■ Automated

the future by visualizing their facilities anywhere at any time.

Features  Buy: Obtain a real-time view of all supplier tiers to strategically source and purchase inputs directly from factories.

Access data anywhere you want, whenever you want  Plan: Leverage accurate, real-time data on for a quick check on processes or to make critical datamanufacturing activities to optimize supply chain driven decisions. planning in both the short- and long-term.

Interconnect factory floor with communication  Optimize: Utilize in-built machine learning channels between humans and machines with the capabilities to forecast supply and demand while help of IoT sensors. Access data anywhere you want, automating sourcing decisions. whenever you want for a quick check on processes or to  Vantage: React quickly to changing events to make critical data-driven decisions. minimize disruption and ensure rapid production ARCSTONE is focused on revolutionizing the way data and delivery lead-times. is utilized in enterprises. Giving purpose and meaning to data is fundamental in bringing an enterprise closer together. We provide management and workers an intuitive and powerful solution for running their dayto-day operations while also being able to forecast and plan for future growth.

Highlights  Gain insight into your manufacturing processes and the ability to monitor, maintain and control production with real-time data.  We provide a modular, flexible, and open MES solution that integrates with existing systems and hardware including IoT sensors, machines, ERPs, and workstation tablets to create a vibrant information network to run operations.  Our easy-to-use solution for facility managers and workers will run daily operations with maximum productivity. Enable senior management to plan for MAY 2021

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Conspiracy Theories About 5G Networks Have Skyrocketed Since COVID-19 Conspiracy theories about 5G networks have skyrocketed since COVID-19

northern suburbs of Montréal.

Some extreme right-wing groups have even developed conspiracy theories linking 5G to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some activists have gone as far as setting fire to telecommunications towers in Belgium, the Netherlands and recently in Québec. A couple from Sainte-Adèle has been formally accused of setting fire to two cellphone towers; allegedly, they are behind a wave of fires that damaged at least seven towers in the

These conspiracy theories argue, for example, that the spread of the virus from the epicentre of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, is linked to the large number of 5G towers in the city. In reality, a 5G network is not even fully deployed there. Other theories falsely claim that the waves emitted by the 5G infrastructure would weaken our immune system.

The false news concerning 5G spread at lightning The advent of 5G has raised many concerns among speed on social networks, relayed by influencers and people, to the extent that anti-5G movements have celebrities and reinforcing the fears of people who were already suspicious of 5G’s potential health effects. emerged in various countries in recent months.

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warn the public about misinformation related to 5G telephone networks, insisting that the networks do not spread COVID-19 and that viruses do not circulate over radio waves or mobile networks. Moreover, COVID-19 is spreading in many countries that do not even have a 5G mobile network.

A Revolutionary Technology

household appliances, computers, wireless routers, cell phones and other wireless devices, are non-ionizing.

Unlike X-rays or ultraviolet rays, they are not powerful enough to reach the cells of the human body and affect our immune system.

The Object of All Fears

The use of 5G has become a controversial issue, The fifth generation of wireless communication crystallizing society’s concerns. It is not the first time technologies, 5G is expected to better cope with the (and won’t be the last) that technological progress explosion of global data traffic predicted in the coming has been challenged by irrational fear generated by years. In addition to improving the technical capabilities uncertainty about the risks of a technology perceived of the 4G network, this new standard crosses the as invasive. ultimate frontier essential for massive and simultaneous However, the overwhelming enthusiasm of technophiles communications between machines. and other “early adopters” of technological innovations Among its impacts, 5G will accelerate the automation of industries, the introduction of autonomous vehicles, the development of smart cities, telehealth and remote surgery. All this will be made possible by three main factors: increased connection speeds through improved use of high-frequency bands, reduced latency and the use of next-generation infrastructure such as small directional antennas. These antennae with signal relay devices can be integrated into street fixtures, buildings, transport and utilities to support targeted signal distribution.

No Danger to Human Health Several scientists are concerned about the possible effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields generated by devices connected to the 5G network.

should not lead us into the “technological solutionism” that would present 5G as the new life-saving technology.

On the other hand, the scepticism of technophobes and the opposition of anti-5G activists and conspiracy seekers must not lead us into collective paranoia.

Between these two extremes — and in the current context of a paradigm shift — we recommend a third way: reinventing society’s relationship with technology in a rational way. The time has come for businesses, public authorities and citizens to question the challenges, opportunities, vices and virtues of the widespread digitization of society. The deployment of 5G is part of this process and represents both a new challenge and an opportunity for societal progress.

It is possible to embrace the promises of digital transformation without neglecting to take the necessary precautions for health and the environment. We must Some studies report symptoms observed in “electro not fall into technological determinism and believe that sensitive” people such as stress, headaches, heart we have no power over these technologies. problems and impaired cognitive functions (memory, attention, coordination) in children. Nevertheless, there is no scientifically proven diagnosis and no causal link can be established today between these symptoms, which remain inexplicable, and exposure to electromagnetic fields.

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STEVIE OOI CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Empowers Businesses, Organizations And Individuals With Valuable LocationBased Information In Real Time.

About Us W-Locate's mission is to empower businesses

Telematics, Big Data and Cloud Computing with Location Intelligence. That’s what sets it apart from the competition.

Since our inception in 2010, our technologies have benefitted businesses and organizations across Asia. Our solutions have been deployed by a number of industries including telecommunications, F&B services, logistics, construction and the public sector.

The W-Locate approach FIND is more than a fleet management platform. FIND can be customized with specially placed sensors and can be deployed to track any mobile device or outdoor object. With a proven track record in customization through M2M Telematics, we are able deliver insight on a wide-range of information that businesses could only have been able to collect manually prior to FIND. With FIND, data is now only a few clicks away How do we go about doing it?

In addition to FIND, which essentially is a fleet management platform, FIND also allows for customization and can be deployed to track any other mobile or outdoor objects. With our proven track records in customization through M2M Telematics, we are able to deliver business owners information that Our innovative in-house solution integrates M2M they could only collect manually prior to deploying W-Locate’s powerful technology empowers businesses, organizations and individuals with valuable locationbased information in real time. Our data helps businesses make informed decisions, secure new revenue streams and boost productivity.

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FIND (M2M Telematics).

First, Our dedicated FIND Plus consultants will spend time speaking to the business owners and ground crew to understand the business processes before implementation. Once, we understand the business processes, we will then determine the vital information that needs to be collected before we proceed to deploy.

Once we are ready for deployment, we integrate various machine systems/sensors (M2M Telematics) to monitor and record all the required pre-defined parameters in real time.

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About the Co-Founder & CEO STEVIE OOI

As the CEO of W-Locate, Steve is in charge of developing strategic partnership, channel sales and acquisition of Stevie is a serial entrepreneur who has been in the key customers. location and telecommunication business for more than 10 years. Before entering the location industry, he was an outstanding sales manager in the air cargo Industry for more than 15 years and was often topping sales revenue targets set by his employers due to his excellent salesmanship.

After his departure from the air cargo industry, Stevie founded his first company in 2002, EinfoAsia Pte Ltd (“EInfo”). Einfo was the first onlinedotcom directory in Singapore. Einfo consolidated all the information from local directories and provided an easy way for businesses to build their own mailing or calling list to sell to the target market of their choice.

In 2006, Stevie was hired by AGIS Pte Ltd, one of the top mapping and navigation companies in South East Asia at that time. At AGIS, Stevie was their Director of Special Projects; he was in charge of strategic business development and sales. He was the one who secured Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson & O2 as customers for AGIS. His efforts brought AGIS into a new level as AGIS mapping application was pre-installed in some of the earlier generations smart Nokia & later Samsung’s phones.

After his departure from AGIS in 2008, he founded MarketingWorx Pte Ltd (“MW”), which was a company that delivers SIM value added services such as news, lottery results, sports results, etc. StarHub, M1 & SPH were few of their anchor customers. It was during his time in MW where he saw the opportunity to do something more with the SIM cards by using it as a platform for tracking purposes, which led to the founding of W-Locate Pte Ltd. MAY 2021

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NETVIRTA A Rising Leader In The 3D Body-Scanning Industry Passionate About Changing The Future Of Fit. Who is NetVirta?

A rising leader in the 3D body-scanning industry passionate about changing the future of fit.

NetVirta is a fast-growing, venture-backed, software start-up in the emerging field of 3D scanning, computer vision & graphics. Founded by two MIT graduates, and located in the heart of Boston, we offer a precision 3D body scanning mobile app and technology platform that enables brands to seamlessly offer their customer’s a personalized shopping experience, either through suggesting the best fitting apparel/footwear, or offering custom-fit products.

ANDY EOW FOUNDER & CTO

Imagine being able to scan your foot and knowing what shoe fits you best, or scan your body and order a custom fit suit/dress. We work with companies across a wide variety of industries and applications.

NetVirta’s mission is to help brands and retailers usher in the next generation of customization and personalization during the buying experience.

We are expanding our team!! If you’re looking for an exciting career to develop game-changing 3D technologies to power the next-generation eCommerce platform.

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Company Background Operating since 2013, NetVirta originally built its technology for the most discerning customers doctors demanding medical-grade accuracy. Using our technology, clinicians all over the world scan their patients to inform the production of custom orthotics and prosthetics. This technology soon made its way into the sports equipment industry, allowing for the creation of custom-fit football helmets.

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Recently, NetVirta has expanded their reach into markets in need of better sizing tools. With a 40+  Use 3D Body Data: Body data is used to better inform future sizing of products to fit a larger person team, 90% of which are computer scientists percentage of a brand's customers and engineers, we continue to act as a leader in the 3D-body scanning industry and are passionate about innovating 3D scanning technology to eventually NetVirta's Offerings improve the overall customer buying experience.

NetVirta is headquartered in downtown Boston and  3D Scanning APP: Accessible to anyone with a smartphone, users are walked through a selfSingapore. scanning process to collect body data and ultimately receive best fitting sizes and styles for a specified brand.

Company History  2013: Founded by two MIT PHD/MS graduates,  eCommerce Plug-In: This light-weight widget seamlessly connects the Verifyt app with a brand's Jeff Chen and Andy Eow eCommerce site and has a customizable interface  2014: Recieved FDA Class II Approval and entered per brand-specific requirements. the custom orthotics & prosthetics market  Customer Intelligence: A web portal providing  2020: Partnering with clothing & footwear brands customer and scan databases, reporting, analytics, to bring a better fit to their customers and more. Portal communicates directly with tools such as pattern making software, tech-packs, and  2017: Partnered with Riddell to aid in the creation manufacturers. of custom football helmets

Applications Partnering With Wearable Brands  Capture 3d Scans: Brands collect 3D scans of their customers using one of NetVirta's various scanning apps, specific to their business

 Recommendations: Using customers' 3D body data and fit preferences as input, we are able to accurately recommend best sizes and suggest other styles. We work directly with brands to curate a recommendation engine specific to their products.

 Custom-Fit: Companies who offer custom-fit leverage the Verify app to collect customer body data and measurements. Using an API, this data  Create Size Recommendations: Based on can be passed directly to tools such as pattern collected customer data, size recommendations making software, tech-packs, and manufacturers. are created or measurements are used to inform a custom-fit offering  Collect Fit Preferences: Fit preference and body type questions are asked to help further inform our recommendation algorithm MAY 2021

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NICHOLAS CHEN CO-FOUNDER

NOZOMI

A Simple Price Tracking Engine Capable Of Dynamically Supporting New Exchange Endpoints.

system in Japan and went on to explore the web to learn more about the transport infrastructure in Japan while commuting and was astonished to find the reliability, efficiency, and speed of the shinkansen.

Since the tracking engine did not bear any name at the point of time, it struck him that the engine should be named after the most modern shinkansen to date, Nozomi. To Nicholas, Nozomi embodies the qualities of the Nozomi shinkansen, capable of delivering data quickly, reliably, and efficiently.

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The following terms and conditions (the “API Terms of Service”) govern your access to, and use, of our proprietary The story of Nozomi application programming interface, including our Back in 2018, Nicholas took a week to come up with ‘REST API’ or ‘Websocket API’ (collectively, the a simple price tracking engine capable of dynamically “Nozomi API”) and the related documentation, the current version of which is located https://nozomi.ai/ supporting new exchange endpoints. docs (the “Nozomi API Documentation”), all of which Fast forward a month later, Nicholas traveled to Japan as are designed to facilitate your access to, and use of, our part of his graduation trip from Singapore Polytechnic.

Services (as defined in the Terms of Service).

After spending a couple of days exploring the beautiful city of Osaka, he decided to travel to Kyoto and Japan in These API Terms of Service supplements, and forms part the search for more jaw-dropping scenery. Throughout of, our standard terms of service, the current version of the journey, he was always on a train, specifically, which is located at: https://www.nozomi.ai/legal/terms a shinkansen (also known as a bullet train) called (“Terms of Service”). Accordingly, capitalized terms Nozomi. Since traveling took hours between cities, he used, but not defined in these API Terms of Service, gained a curiosity in the complexity of the transport have the meanings set out in the Terms of Service.

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You will not use or access the Nozomi API in any way not expressly permitted under these API Terms of with us (or our third party suppliers, if applicable). The Service or the Nozomi API Documentation. Without Nozomi API, Nozomi API Documentation, Nozomi limiting the generality of the foregoing, you will not: Data and all materials provided by us hereunder are licensed and not “sold” to you. All rights not expressly ■ develop any Applications that:; granted to you in these API Terms of Service are ■ modify, decompile, reverse engineer, or reserved.

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In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the API Terms of Service or the Terms of Service, these API Terms of Service will prevail to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, except that for the purposes  Monitoring Usage of API You acknowledge and agree that we may monitor your of these API Terms of Service, the term “Services” will, use of the Nozomi API and that you will not block or for greater clarity, include making available the Nozomi API and Nozomi API Documentation to you. otherwise interfere with our monitoring.

Your use of the Nozomi API requires the transmission of data and information over the Internet and public networks. Accordingly, we do not, and cannot, guarantee the confidentiality, security or reliability of any communications made by you or your Applications through the Noozmi API.

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All rights (including intellectual property rights), title and interest in and to the Nozomi API, the Nozomi API Documentation, Aggregated Statistical Information, Nozomi Data and all other materials provided by us hereunder, and any update, adaptation, translation, customization or derivative work thereof, will remain MAY 2021

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Why do people still use fax machines?

Why do people still use fax machines?

to accommodate new technologies. Fax machines still dominate, but both surveys suggested users were shifting The fax machine is a symbol of obsolete technology to computer-based services, such as fax servers that let long superseded by computer networks – but faxing is users send and receive faxes as electronic documents. actually growing in popularity.

Cloud-based fax services, which treat faxes as images or PDF files attached to emails, are also becoming more popular. These new systems can transmit faxes Businesses often use faxes over telephone lines or the internet, depending on the Faxing remains alive and well, especially in Japan and recipient, handling paper and electronic documents Germany – and in major sectors of the U.S. economy, equally easily. such as health care and financial services. Countless emails flash back and forth, but millions of faxes travel the world daily too.

Legal acceptance A worldwide survey in 2017 found that of 200 large firms, defined as companies with more than 500 employees, 82 percent had seen workers send the same number of, or even more, faxes that year than in 2016. A March 2017 unscientific survey of 1,513 members of an online forum for information technology professionals found that 89 percent of them still sent faxes.

Fax’s longevity also benefits greatly from reluctance – both legal and social – to accept email as secure and an emailed electronic signature as valid. Faxed signatures became legally accepted in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a series of legal and administrative decisions by state and federal agencies. The Electronic Signatures Act in 2000 also gave digital signatures legal power but The persistence of faxing – and the people who send institutional and individual acceptance followed only faxes – is in part because the fax industry has adapted slowly – if at all.

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Even parts of the federal government preferred faxes over email for many years thereafter. Not until 2010 did the Drug Enforcement Agency allow electronic signatures for Schedule II drugs like Ritalin and opiates, which comprised about 10 percent of all prescriptions. That meant a pharmacist could accept a faxed prescription but not one scanned and sent by email.

Faxing and medicine Another reason faxing hangs on is because competing technologies are weak. The health care industry generates huge amounts of data for each patient. That should make it fertile ground for a fully digital recordkeeping system, “where data can flow easily between patient, provider, caregivers, researchers, innovators and payers,” as Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, put it in a speech earlier this year.

Federal privacy laws and deliberately incompatible standards, however, stand in the way. Immediately after the passage of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, fax vendors retooled their transmission, reception and storage systems and procedures to protect patients’ personal records.

Specifically, HIPAA-compliant fax systems ensure the correct number is dialed and limit who can see received faxes. Digital patient-information systems have struggled to meet the same standards of administrative, technical and physical security.

The Obama administration spent more than US$25 billion encouraging doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic medical records systems. Crucially, rather than forcing competing systems to be compatible in order to receive federal support, the administration believed the market would decide on a standard to communicate.

Comfortable inertia One more personal factor preserving faxing is users’ reluctance to change. Small businesses who find that faxing meets all their needs have little reason to spend the money and effort to try a new technology for document exchange. Every company that prefers faxes inherently encourages all its customers and suppliers to keep faxing too, to avoid messing up existing ordering processes.

Absent a compelling reason or some management or government mandate, people often don’t change technologies. This is true beyond faxing: I drive a 2005 Camry. There are plenty of cars that are better in some way – safer, more fuel-efficient, more comfortable – but so long as the Camry passes state inspections and performs adequately, I can avoid the challenges and costs of buying a new car and learning how to use its new features.

International popularity Faxing is still popular overseas, too. In Britain, the 2000 Electronic Communications Act encouraged but did not explicitly authorize electronic signatures. In 2018, urged partly by the European Union’s promotion of electronic identification, the British Law Commission concluded that electronic signatures were indeed legal but needed significant promotion to increase their acceptance and use.

Not surprisingly, a recent survey found that Britain’s National Health Service operated more than 8,000 fax machines. In response, the U.K.‘s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock labelled faxing a symbol of National

Nevertheless, faxing continues because it remains better – cheaper, more convenient, more secure, more comfortable – than the alternatives for many people, What actually happened was that competing companies businesses and organizations. Faxing will remain deliberately created incompatible systems. Doctors’ important until transmitting digital data becomes offices and hospitals that use different records databases easier and more accepted. That could be a long way can’t communicate with each other digitally – but they off, though. U.S. federal initiatives are trying to make can via fax. For many medical professionals, particularly medical records systems more compatible, but no one independent physicians, faxing is far easier than dealing has yet been hired to take a key leadership position at with expensive, hard-to-use software that doesn’t CMS. actually do what it was supposed to: securely share Eventually, the older generation of people more patient information. comfortable with faxing than emailing will fade away.

Until then, however, fax machines will whirl away.

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RHINE DIGITAL To Help People Live Better By Augmenting Digital Experiences Into The Real World

Our Mission To provide a true Online-to-Offline Experience

Our Vision To help people live better by augmenting digital experiences into the real world.

Our Principles ■ We Listen: It's our business to be in people's business, and we take every expression as a new avenue of exploration!

■ We Process: We invest our resources to integrate suggestions and feedback into our product offerings ■ We Innovate: Here at Rhine we are focused on developing novel ideas, to create the next big impact for the community! Find out how Rhine can help empower your business and gain a competitive advantage today. No matter which industry you are in, as long as you need to directly communicate with your customers, we welcome you to find out more.

Features  Collaborative Loyalty: Don't compete with other merchants for insights on potential customers, our platform shares the data sourced from our partners.  Explore possibilities: See the potential you can achieve with Rhine.

How it works Create Ad Campaigns Our comprehensive toolkit will allow you maximum outreach to new and past customers alike!

EDWIN KOH CO-FOUNDER

Engage your Users Get their attention with your new promotion via our chat platform; build loyalty via digital stamp cards.

Analyse and Decide Review your campaign performance and drive business decisions.

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Conditions“) set forth the terms and conditions for the use of any and all products and services (collectively, the “Services”) provided by Rhine Digital Pte Ltd (“Rhine“) to users of the Services (the “User“ or “Users“, depending upon the context).  Agreement to these Terms and Conditions: All Users shall use the Services in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Users may not use the Services unless they agree to these Terms and Conditions.  Advertisements: Rhine reserves the right to post advertisements for Rhine or a third party on the Services.

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 Third-Party Services: The Services may contain services or Contents provided by third parties other than Rhine. Such third parties shall bear any and all responsibility regarding such services and/or  Restricted Matters: Rhine prohibits Users from Contents. Furthermore, there may be terms or use engaging in any of the following acts when using the or other terms and conditions provided by such Services: third party who are applicable to such services and ■ Acts that violate the laws and regulations, court Contents.

verdicts, resolutions or orders, or  Contents: Rhine grants Users a non-transferable, administrative measures that are legally non-sub licensable, non-exclusive license to use the binding; Subject Contents provided by Rhine, solely for the purpose of using the Services. If Rhine believes that ■ Acts that may be in violation of public order,

morals or customs; a User has violated or may violate any applicable laws or regulations or the provisions of these Terms and  User Responsibility Conditions in relation to the Submitted Contents, or when otherwise reasonably necessary for Rhine’s  NO WARRANTY business, then Rhine reserves the right to preclude  Rhine's LIMITATION OF LIABILITY such User's use of the Services in certain manners,  Notification and Contact such as deleting the Submitted Contents without providing prior notice to the User.  Governing Law and Jurisdiction: Where Rhine has provided Users with a translation of the English  R-Points: R-Points will be provided to Users by the language version of these Terms and Conditions means specified by Rhine, such as purchases in the (the “English Version”), the English Version will Services, special offers and the like. The purchase govern the relationship between Users and Rhine. unit, method of payment, and any other terms In the event of any conflict between the English and conditions for granting the R-Points will be Version and a translation thereof, the provisions in determined by Rhine and indicated in the Services the English Version shall take precedence over any or on Rhine’s website. other translation. These Terms and Conditions will be governed by the laws of Singapore. Any conflicts  Provision of Subscription Services: Users may between Users and Rhine that arise from or in receive services in exchange for payment of a fee connection with the Service shall be resolved under or under the terms and conditions prescribed by the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore Supreme Rhine, wherein the Users pay a certain amount Court as the court of first instance. of considerations to use certain Subject Contents MAY 2021

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SIENNA LIM SOOK YEE MANAGING DIRECTOR

NET TO SOLUTIONS CONSULTING Powerful & Creative Solutions To Automate Your Business And Achieve Your Business Goals.

About NSS

Malaysia and Singapore, helping customers ranging from small start-ups companies to multinational companies work smarter through our customized solutions.

Netto Solutions bears great ambition in mind, that is “Simplifying business” for all businesses. We believe that the best creative and IT solutions should be direct and easy to understand while maintaining its effectiveness!

Our team focuses on a business life cycle model which critically analyze each stage of a business to solve business challenges. Businesses can expect better productivity, further cost and resource savings and better optimization in business operations after undergoing the process.

Our Vision To be the best trusted and most reliable IT Consulting Partner.

Our Mission To optimise productivity of corporate enterprises through digital transformation to achieve full business potential.

Core Value ■ E – Excellence ■ L – Learning ■ I – Integrity ■ T – Teamwork

Solution Experience

■ E – Entrepreneurship

Netto Solutions was founded in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

We are powered by an experienced team with more than 8 years of experience, expanding our reach across

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 Startup Stage: Decision making in this stage is the key for your business future direction. Netto Solutions provides deep insights and reliable market research data that includes hardware and software audits to guide you in making key decisions to achieve your business goals.  Expansion Stage: We provide powerful solutions to simplify and automate your business process like logistics, tracking, cost strategies and marketing investments to create an efficient model for your business.  Maturity Stage: Our team helps your business create a highly cost-efficient outsourcing business process so that you can focus on your business core strength and main goals. Each strategy and model is customized to meet your business needs

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 Transformation Strategy & Plan: Before making the strategy and plan efforts, and because of rapid changes in the technology and market, is good that NSS Providing A Solution Is Just More doing some market analysis to order to create up Than Technology to date strategy and needs. It is useful to clarify the NSS providing a solution is just more than technology.

Strategy and Plan. It provides priority capabilities Over the past few years, we have designed and developed and assesses capabilities. Better to find out expected the digital solutions for enterprises. outcomes. There are several considerations factors “SAP’s Bouhdary suggests you focus around “design that will usually taken into account as depicts below. thinking,” which he says starts with building a culture ■ Innovation of innovation throughout the organization. He says most companies have the foundation to implement ■ Deliver beautiful experience new technology, the real roadblock comes with finding ■ Implementation & Execution creative ways to problem solve.”

■ Marketing elements Putting a creative approach in the digital transformation,  Adjustment of implementation & Organizational companies need to have a clear business objective, vision Adaptability: Always align and look back the with an elaborate strategy for digital transformation. strategy and goals plan that have written in the Because a creative digital transformation approach is roadmap, to ensure the adjustment is provision to one that requires quick and intuitive thinking, your fulfill organization process and business. Digital strategy will need to address more than hardware and Transformation journey works for enterprises software. because in the organization, their leaders drive the change, and they go back to their basics.

However, rather than looking at the problems you’re trying to solve with innovations, focus on your end  Continuous Improvement and Scalability: goal. What do you want to achieve? Consider long-term In a highly competitive business environment, goals and concentrate more on the experience you want implementation of digital transformation is a sureto create for your customers as well as employees. fire way to business development. Use these steps above to build a solid foundation for the costeffective digital improvement of your business.

Methodology However to drive the continuous of improvement  Vision and Goals: Create some strategic goals and and maintenance creating value and your business vision when a company wants a new strategy. When reputation in the market, it definitely will help your companies create their vision and goals, they directly business growth.

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BEITE PTE LTD We Envision The Future Of A Workplace Where People Work To Live Productively And Embrace A Quality Of Life With Friends And Family.

Who We Are We Empower People for the Evolving Workplace At BEITE, we study how people work in today’s corporate ecosystem, what’s coming up in the future, and how people, technology and data are driving the future of work. The rapid pace of technological evolution is changing everything around the workplace and everything about our lives in general. It’s not slowing down — in fact, it’s likely to continue to evolve at a faster pace.

Studies conducted on remote working in recent years show many benefits for employees and companies to embrace a flexible working arrangement. Many global companies have already taken the lead by deploying flexible work policies leading to great success.

BEITE is a solution provider for a remote work arrangement and management. We know the benefits and challenges that come with working remotely and with managing a remote team. We focus on providing expert insight, best practices and a complete remote workplace solution that is designed to address management concerns on productivity, work efficiency, cyber security, risk on data leak and availability of user support while embracing a flexible and secure working environment.

We’re a fully distributed team of 32 people living and working in 8 countries around the world. And we’re working to build the best experiences to help our customers embrace a valuable remote working arrangement

Why BEITE We offer unique tools to empower our corporate clients to track the real-time performance of their remote users, while at the same time providing support when needed. Our tools also provide data leak protection and cybersecurity while maintaining security, productivity, business efficiency and company integrity.

IT'S OVER 2,460 YEARS OLD! And is still standing!

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We have chosen to use the analogy of the iconic Greek Parthenon because it has stood the test of time. It also represents Beite’s six pillar’s solution model, because if one or more of these pillars are missing or comprised, it will adversely affect the overall structure. This is the same for Beite’s total remote workplace solution which offers resilience and security and much more for your remote workforce.

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We offer all six pillars as a complete solution to ensure your remote workplace structure will also maintain the test of these challenging times.

Our Vision We envision the future of a workplace where people work to live productively and embrace a quality of life with friends and family

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grown 140% since 2005. That’s 10 times faster than At Beite, we are committed to help organizations ride the rest of the workforce. Between 2017 and 2019, the wave of the new Information Era and march into the telecommuting saw a 22% increase. future of work smoothly.

The Generation Z workforce will change the workplace as we know it, as this Generation prizes the work life balance that remote working can give them. The rise of Our Values the Gig Economy will also make remote working more  Work-Life Balance: We understand the intrinsic popular as freelancers demand the freedom that remote importance of work, however, an increasingly popular working can give their gigs. idealogy is, 'we work to live, not live to work'. So, at Beite we embrace flexible work arrangements and we While the clearest benefit of work flexibility is greater strive to create communities that have a productive, work life balance for employees, it also helps employers attract and retain talent while boosting productivity. successful work life balance.

However, many companies are still holding back  Customer Commitment: We strive to satisfy from fully embracing these desirable polices due our customers' needs by continually seeking to to management concerns such as: maintaining understand their ongoing requirements to the best productivity, communication collaboration, cyberof our abilities. security, data protection, risk and compliance, and the  Quality: We commit ourselves to ensuring that our availability of user support. customers receive products and services that are Hence, Beite put together a comprehensive and complete relevant, helpful and of premium value. solution to address these concerns.  Visionary: Through vigilance & continual learning, we will endeavor to be at the forefront of technology Benefits of remote working for employees include: trends and changes.  Freedom and flexibility

 Passion: We are energized and committed to deliver  Greater productivity the right solutions to our clients so they may achieve  Benefits of remote working for employers include: their desired results & outcomes.  Better staff retention

Our Story Work flexibility and healthy life balance is changing the workplace more than ever. Here's why and how we are embracing it.

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Creating A High-Speed Internet Lane For Emergency Situations Creating a high-speed internet lane for emergency situations

electricity to an area. And regular people often add to the problem as they overload mobile networks with calls, texts and other electronic messages checking on During large disasters, like hurricanes, wildfires and loved ones or seeking help. terrorist attacks, people want emergency responders to arrive quickly and help people deal with the crisis. In As researchers about digital networks and emergency order to do their best, police, medics, firefighters and communications, we are developing a faster and more those who manage them need lots of information: Who is reliable way to send and receive large amounts of data located where needing what help? And what equipment through the internet in times of crisis. Working with and which rescuers are available to intervene? With all actual responders and emergency managers, we have of the technology we have, it might seem that gathering created a method for giving urgent information priority and sharing lots of information would be pretty simple. over other internet traffic, effectively creating a highBut communicating through a disaster is much more speed lane on the internet for use in emergencies. While a national emergency responder network initiative challenging than it appears. called FirstNet is beginning to get going, it requires The event itself can make communications worse, building an all-new wireless network just for emergency damaging networks and phone systems or cutting 38

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services to use. By contrast, our system uses existing internet connections, while giving priority to rescue workers’ data.

Connecting networks

fact, on average, 150 seconds (two and a half minutes) can go by before a failure is identified. In that time, the data just wait in an information traffic jam, not moving.

Online, milliseconds matter – hundreds of seconds are effectively an eternity.

When one router detects a network failure, it has to let all the others know what’s happened, and how to reroute their traffic. This is like having just one traffic cop try to coordinate rush hour around a major bottleneck. The process takes at least several minutes, and sometimes several hours. Until then, data in transit can be delayed The problem is that standard methods for routing or lost entirely. In an emergency, that could mean the traffic through the internet aren’t always able to handle difference between life and death. all those connections at one time. In technical terms, the internet is a collection of more than 54,000 smaller networks. Some of the networks that make up the Testing in the real world internet are quite large, like those belonging to major Our system is designed to operate over the same internet internet service providers or large corporations, but as everyone else, and without affecting other traffic. We many of them are fairly small. No matter their size, each tested our system on the National Science Foundation’s of these networks has equipment that lets it route traffic Global Environment for Network Innovations, a to each of the others. collaborative effort among many universities around Computer networks don’t all connect directly to each the U.S. that allows researchers to develop networking other. And their digital addresses don’t help much – protocols and systems using real computers and we humans assume 12 Main Street and 14 Main Street networking equipment located across the country. In are next doors, but computers with similar numeric our case, we connected 27 computers together for our addresses may not be physical neighbours to each other. tests, devised by RIT environmental, health and safety students, many of whom are volunteer emergency As a result, the router connecting each of these 54,000 responders. networks to the rest of the internet must keep a list of every one of its counterparts and the most efficient Our test – which we did in front of real emergency way to reach each of them. This is like needing a list commanders and personnel – compared our system to of written directions for every place in the world you the standard border gateway protocol. When we broke links in the 27-node network, multi-node label routing might want to go. communications resumed within 12.5 seconds, which is This system, governed by the rules set out in the “border 12 times faster than the regular border gateway protocol’s gateway protocol,” works well most of the time. But when recovery speed. We can shorten that delay even more by it fails, there can be long delays in communications. In changing settings in our protocol’s configuration.

At the moment, it’s reasonably common for communication networks to become overloaded when disaster strikes. When lots of people try to make cellphone calls or use mobile data, the networks get too busy for calls to connect and messages to go through.

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