ANDY Koh, founder of leading pet portal Petfinder.my accepting the DiGi WWWoW Of The Year 2012 (The Best of The Best) Award from DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd’s head of Marketing Services, Sulin Lau.
Looking on is Astro Branded Content Media Sales head, Haris Ismail. The portal, which advocates responsible pet ownership and animal welfare, was the judges’ favourite among the 14 winners of the categories open for public nomination and voting.
An overwhelming response was received for the second edition of the awards with over 1,700 unique entries submitted and more than 170,600 votes cast.
New Idea for home and work
A MODEL showing off a Lenovo Ideapad U310. The Ultrabook is one of nine new PCs, powered by the latest 3rd generation Intel Core processors, launched by Lenovo for consumers and businesses. In conjunction with the launch, the company also kicked off the Book Of DO campaign in Malaysia, outlining a partnership with MPH book store and three young and talented Malaysians as ambassadors of the new IdeaPad U Series Ultrabooks.
Come pick your photographer
INFINITY Wedding Mall is partnering Canon Malaysia to organise monthly wedding photography and videography related activities at the former’s premises in Kuala Lumpur. Infinity’s general manager Elaine Lee says this will give brides and grooms-to-be the opportunity to meet freelance photographers who can customise and plan for a personalised pre-wedding photo shoot.
Canon Malaysia is working with 18 top local wedding photographers who will be showcasing their work at the Infinity Wedding Mall gallery. Among them are Peter Tan of Peter Tan Photography, Norazam of Neurmaya Photography, Andy Tan of The Studio Park and Fauzee of Manggis.tv.
Ctrl+Alt+Compete for aspiring technopreneurs
MICROSOFT Malaysia’s director of local software innovations, Malaysian software economy, Peter Tam (right) shakes hand with Golden Screen Cinema’s general manager Irving Chee to mark the screening of Ctrl+Alt+Compete, a free documentary movie targeted at aspiring individuals who want to start tech-based start-ups. The one-hour movie evolves around the journey of five tech start-ups in the US, how they come up with the business ideas, challenges and lessons they learned. The movie will be screened on three consecutive Saturdays, beginning June 23 at Hall 4, GSC Mid Valley in Kuala Lumpur. Free tickets can be redeemed at http://aka.ms/startups.