Digital Malaysia
A firewall around YouTube, a fence around Digital Malaysia
Home Minister Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that his ministry was working with the MCMC to set up a ‘firewall’ on websites, mentioning YouTube in particular. A. Asohan does not know whether to be appalled or amused.
Made-in-Malaysia platform out to solve the SME tech dilemma
Mercado has launched its homegrown cloud-based platform which offers a suite of business applications built on top of Microsoft Corp’s Office 365, saying it wants to be the catalyst to move Malaysian SMEs to the online world.
#MyCyberSALE records RM67mil in sales: MDeC
MDeC said its #MYCyberSALE online shopping drive under the Digital Malaysia initiative recorded a total of RM67,385,595 in sales from 179,617 online shoppers, surpassing its sales and shopper targets of RM50 million and 100,000 respectively.
PM Najib announces more Digital Malaysia initiatives
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced new Digital Malaysia initiatives to further extend the benefits of the ‘digital economy’ to the Bottom 40% of the income pyramid (B40) and to deepen the economic impact of niche segments.
Exciting days ahead for fintech startup Loanstreet
In talks to raise new funds, plans to launch new services soon
Debt and bankruptcy advisory services spell new monetisation opportunities
Malaysia has the mojo to be data centre hub: TE Connectivity
According to Tim Takala, technical director for Asia and the enterprise network division at TE Connectivity, there are various opportunities that Malaysia can take advantage of to become the regional data centre hub, and one of them is in disaster recovery.
Malaysia’s big data policy framework ready soon
Malaysia’s ambitions to make the country a big data and analytics hub for the region will be guided by a Policy Framework document that is due to be completed and presented to the Prime Minister by the third quarter of this year, according to a senior Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) official.
EnSurvey sees traction improving, eyes overseas expansion
Consumers and companies can gauge public opinion on trends, products and issues
Registered more than 17,000 sessions in June, compared with 5,000 in March
Yasmin’s key challenges at MDeC
What will be Yasmin Mahmood’s top challenges at MDeC? TeAM and Postam weigh in with their thoughts, Karamjit Singh reports.
Malaysia a pioneer country in World Startup Wiki project
His own desire to learn about startup ecosystems outside the United States has seen Bowen Gai kick off the World Startup Wiki project, which sees Malaysia as one of the pioneer entries.
