Saturday, 30 Jan 2021 02:48 PM MYT
BY SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID
Top Glove’s share price gained 40 sen or a 7 per cent surge as of noon yesterday, just hours after news emerged that retail investors are behind a drive to prop up the stocks of the world’s largest medical glove maker. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 A stock market watchdog has warned the public about the risk of social media investment tips after local retail investors behind the “Bursabets” drive helped prop up share prices of local glove manufacturers yesterday.
Cloud security vendor Bitglass has named Wayne Neich as regional sales director for Australia and New Zealand,
The hire positions Neich as the company’s lead exec in ANZ. He brings more than two decades of experience in the IT industry, having worked in leadership positions at organisations including Blue Coat Systems, Silver Peak and Nutanix.
Bitglass is a cloud-based secure web gateway and cloud access security broker, sitting between users and cloud apps to monitor activity and enforce security policies.
“The market is overflowing with legacy IT security solutions built around on-premises appliances. They are extremely complex and expertise intensive, and their vulnerabilities are publicly exposed weekly. The truth is that such vendors are losing the war on cybersecurity,” Neich said.
Minority Shareholders Watch Group (MSWG) chief executive officer Devanesan Evanson said virtual AGMs are susceptible to abuse, as virtual questions can be ignored to the exasperation of the shareholder
PETALING JAYA: With virtual AGMs becoming the new normal in the face of a global pandemic, there have been calls by experts and observers to enhance such meetings in the interest of corporate governance.
Minority Shareholders Watch Group (MSWG) chief executive officer Devanesan Evanson said virtual AGMs are susceptible to abuse, as virtual questions can be ignored to the exasperation of the shareholder.
“This has happened to MSWG analysts who have attended virtual AGMs and their virtual questions were ignored. The questions are not even read out by the chairman.
our goal should be to deal with theft. it s legislation called sif yous which gives us the ability to hammer the chinese when they re doing things not in our nation s best interest and when they re requiring our companies to give them our intellectual properties in order to do business in china. so i don t necessarily agree with the tactic, but i understand the rationale. you know the president campaign eed drain ining the swg on being a law u and order president, but this week, he seems to be at odds with both. your colleague, senator graham, opened the door for a post midterm ousting of jeff sessions after previously saying there would be holy hell to pay. so should the president fire jeff sessions? listen, i think the president deserves to have attorney general that he has confidence in. it s obviously he does not. i will say that jeff sessions has done so far overall, a good
steve bannon called the president a great man last night, but denies that he speaks at all to steve bannon and called that a misnomer. let s get to senior corresponden. jeff, what did you make of the brief but important comments? very brief comments and it was the president s decision to answer that question. we saw him for several seconds. the aide are are saying thank you and they are being escorted out. the president decided to answer that which i decided was swg. he was paying attention to the breitbart radio show last evening when steve bannon referred to the president as a great man. he also said he changed his tune quickly there. certainly interesting. dana, i think it raises an initial question. is this feuding permanent with the president and steve bannon or will they at some point make up, if you will and will steve bannon still be in the mind of this president?