Malaysia
Budget 2020: Malaysia gets it (mostly) about the Digital Economy
5G Ecosystem Development Grant of RM50m won’t move needle
Slow adoption of productivity tools hurt businesses, targeted grant aims to help
Alipay Golden Week 2019: Malaysia yet to hit potential in Chinese tourist transactions
Overseas spending through Alipay by Chinese continues to increase
Malaysian merchants need to tap mobile payments to seize greater opportunity
Peninsular Malaysia to switch over to full digital TV transmission on 14 Oct
Northern and Eastern region will completely switch-off analogue TV transmission at midnight
Historical ASO will take place in Sabah & Sarawak on 31 Oct marking end of analogue TV transmission
UTAR wins at global “Internet-of-Things” competition in New York
Team emerges tops for river pollution monitoring system, bags US$50,000 worth of prizes
UTAR win is testament of high level of innovation that Malaysian talent possess
NTT Communications, Dimension Data and entities combine into NTT Ltd with Henrick Choo heading Malaysian ops
Able to offer Malaysian clients unparalleled range of skills, capabilities across technologies
Henrick’s exceptional background, leadership and proven track record cited as reasons for appointment
Telco Deep Dive 2019: For MyTV, the rubber finally hits the road
Five years after getting the mandate to roll out Malaysia’s digital TV platform, MyTV sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
Carro invests US$30mil into 2-year old Malaysian startup, myTukar
Southeast Asian automotive marketplace Carro invests US$30mil into Malaysian car bidding firm, myTukar, onboard thousands of used car dealers.
Telco Deep Dive 2019: Axiata-Telenor mega merger called off, fails to hurdle complexities
Points to complexities of proposed transaction as getting in way of closing deal
Acknowledge strategic rationale of merger, do not rule out future deal
Alibaba Cloud fast becoming leading cloud player in Malaysia
Ranked Top 3 IaaS provider globally by Gartner, top cloud provider in AP
58 availability zones across 20 economic centres, with global coverage
MDEC launches ‘Pay it Forward’ initiative
Encourages homegrown tech champions to share experience & mentor
Collaborative effort needed with private sector to drive Malaysia’s Digital Economy
