Eileen Yu

Senior Contributing Editor

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Currently an independent business tech journalist and panel moderator based in Singapore, Eileen Yu has over 20 years of industry experience with various publications including ZDNET, IDG, and Singapore Press Holdings. She covers indust…ry developments in Singapore and other Asian markets, with special focus on China, and aims to drive discussions around cybersecurity, data, and government policies. Eileen majored in Journalism at The University of Queensland, Australia, where she wrote an honours thesis titled: To Censor or Not: The Great Singapore Dilemma.

Eileen Yu has no shares-related information to disclose as she doesn't hold investments in the organisations she covers. Acceptance of fees related to her freelance projects does not constitute an endorsement of the company and will not influence her coverage of the company. She is not sponsored by any company or under any exclusive contract.

Latest from Eileen Yu

Dad, what's chewing gum?

Last week, I overheard a father explaining to his two young kids what chewing gum was. It then dawned on me that there is now a generation of youngsters in Singapore that have never experienced, much less know what a piece of gum looks like or how it functions.

December 12, 2006 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Confessions of a paranoid Netizen

I've always resisted the idea of blogging--the thought of opening a window to my soul for the entire cyber world to peer into, somehow, just never quite appealed to me.So it was with some reluctance that I eventually took on a blogger role at ZDNet Asia, but not without recognizing that it is a necessary part of my work as a journalist on a new media platform.

August 2, 2007 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Is that Facebook guy crazy?

I had high hopes of winning the local lottery last night. The prize money had snowballed to almost S$3 million, and yes, I've said it here a gazillion times before, I would really like an early retirement…PLEASE.

October 4, 2007 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Technology to answer the call of nature

U.S. politics marked a milestone this week when YouTube video clips were used in a debate involving eight presidential hopefuls from the country's Democratic party, supposedly to help Americans better decide whom they want as their leader in the 2008 election.

July 26, 2007 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Calling Asian tech startups

A new generation of almost everything is emerging--from the way we search for information and the way we tune in to music, to the way we communicate with one another, shop and transact.Tech stalwarts like IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft and Oracle continue to be pillars of the tech industry, but many of these new possibilities are also the resulting efforts of smaller companies, startups and individuals.

August 17, 2006 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, blindly

It can't be easy operating a business these days. Not only do CXOs have to worry about overheads, CAPEX, OPEX and profit margins, they also have to keep up with the latest tech developments to ensure their organization continues to be seen and heard where it matters.

July 19, 2007 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Survivor: YouTube island?

weekly roundup If they weren't already before, the founders of popular video-sharing site YouTube became millionaires--on paper, at least--this week after they pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars in Google shares. At current stock value, Chad Hurley, Steven Chen and Jarwed Karim received some US$345 million, US$326 million and US$64.

February 8, 2007 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

Are social networking sites like golf?

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Yep, I'm blogging from the land where you hope the next ringing slot machine is yours and where drive-through service takes on a whole new meaning for newly-weds.

March 6, 2008 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

If only I had the Internet back then

For as long as I can remember, I've had aspirations of becoming a performing musician. As the years passed and reality set in--and probably to my parents' relief--I decided journalism was a safer career to go with.

May 1, 2008 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

So what if Twittering tweets is an un-monetizable fleeting fad?

"Arrested."That one word was all it took for American graduate student James Karl Buck to burrow his way out of an Egyptian jail, where he had ended up for covering an anti-government protest in April this year.

August 7, 2008 by Eileen Yu in Social Enterprise

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