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World domination: The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen. The Big Four – Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google – are now seen as too powerful and ‘harmful’. Meanwhile, Microsoft was the subject of an anti-trust case in the United States in the 1990s. AFP
IN one of the senate hearings in Washington, DC, in April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked by Senator Dick Durbin where he stayed the night before. Would Zuckerberg be comfortable to share it with him? Zuckerberg understandably said no after a long pause.
Durbin asked Zuckerberg whether he would like to share the names of people he messaged that week. He answered that he would choose not to do that publicly at the hearing.
Explosive tell-all: A family in Liverpool, northwest England, watching Oprah interviewing Meghan. AFP
AN explosive statement, a prolonged pause and the utterance of the word “what?”. Television is made of moments like this – replete with a tinge of surprise, heightened drama and collective gasps from the audience. It was one of the most memorable scenes on TV in recent history.
No, this is not an episode from a made-for-TV drama or a scene from a hit series on Netflix, it is in fact an interview conducted by one of the most famous hosts in the western world – the diva of all divas – Oprah Winfrey.
I AM 67-year and 113-day old today. My next birthday will only be in November. I am just in the mood to do some arithmetic, considering there is not much else to do, being “caged” under the movement control order.
The last time I wrote something about my age was an article “I am a full-fledged senior citizen today” published on my 60th birthday in 2013.
Ironically when I started writing for a column that lasted 13 years in another newspaper, the first piece was titled “Pain of aging and fast becoming the yesterday man”. I was 48 when I wrote that article, published in January 2002.
pic) when he touched the Big Eight-O last week.
DAP leaders had a zoom gathering to mark the occasion while Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow went down memory lane with Kit Siang, looking back to the time when ordinary Chinese were afraid to openly support DAP.
Chow, whose political career began in Penang, recalled how the pair would walk the length of Penang’s Campbell Street, which is a very long street, and manage to sell only two tickets for their annual party dinner.
As Kit Siang put it, it has been a “long, lonely but worthwhile journey”.
There were also tributes from Pakatan Harapan leaders, including a heartfelt video message from Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim who said that “I love Kit as a brother, family and friend”.