IT WAS an exciting twin bash as The Star Online and In.Tech celebrated their “techniversaries,” on Tuesday.
The Star’s online news portal, The Star Online turned 15, while its cutting edge technology publication In.Tech, celebrated its silver jubilee at a colourful two-hour birthday bash with invited guests and friends.
The Star group managing director and chief executive officer Datin Linda Ngiam, deputy group chief editor 1 David Yeoh and vice-president of New Media Davin Arul jointly cut the anniversary cake sponsored by KL Hilton.
Turning 15 and 25: The Star Online’s and In.Tech anniversary launch at 1Utama. The event began with a flash mob dance involving 40 dancers, led by Candi Soo, from the Candi Soo fitness chain.
A flash mob is a group of people called (by e-mail, text message or social media) to a designated location at a specific time to perform a specific action before dispersing.
The routine, called the “Flash Mob Masala Dance’’, was based on a modern Bollywood dance style.
The dancers grooved to a version of the foot-stomping Jai Ho tune by the Pussycat Dolls.
Later, the guests were treated to dinner before being ushered into the cinema to watch the premiere of the movie Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
Double happiness: (from left) Yeoh, Ngiam and Arul at The Star Online’s and In.Tech anniversary twin-celebration at 1Utama. The bash was held at Golden Screens Cinema at 1-Utama shopping centre in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
The Star was the first local newspaper to embrace the Internet age when the paper went online in 1995.
In.Tech started as a computer game review column called Battlezone before evolving into a full-fledged technology pullout.
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