Online video adtech startup Pancast has officially launched in Southeast Asia, marking it with its first office in Indonesia. In addition, Pancast has also appointed Miranti Herwinda as the startup’s country manager in Indonesia.
Looking even deeper into the minds of IT leaders, Dataversity finds that the number of data silos is their biggest data management challenge, cited by 66%. For all the fussing about privacy, it was tenth on the list, cited by just 26%. Here’s the real surprise: plans to use “big data” are falling, as companies adopt cloud relational databases instead. More here on data modeling, architectures, governance, metadata, and other geeky delights.
The Asia eCommerce Awards is back for its fourth year to recognise and reward excellence for both brands, eRetailers and agencies in their eCommerce efforts across Southeast Asia, South Asia and ANZ regions.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.