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More partnerships sought at Asian Animation Summit
The inaugural Asian Animation Summit (AAS) has kicked off at Intercontinental Hotel Kuala Lumpur, showcasing some of Asia’s strongest and most commercially viable animation projects.
Push comes to shove, PUsh will fail
Karamjit Singh lists a multitude of reasons why the RM80-million government initiative to create three competitive bumi ICT companies will not work.
VADS, MDeC ink cloud enablement agreement
VADS Bhd has signed a collaborative agreement with the Multimedia Development Corporation to enable 10 local ISVs to leverage on the VADS Cloud Enablement Program.
BT expands in Malaysia with global shared service facility
BT and the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) have announced that the former will establish a global shared service facility based in the Bangsar South section of Kuala Lumpur in early 2013, as part of BT’s recently announced investment into the Asia Pacific region and in line with its geographical diversification plan.
Disrupt: Malaysia’s creative content industry missing key pieces
The Malaysian creative content industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 15 years, but despite all the pipelines and talents that have been developed, is still missing some key elements for it to emerge as a truly global player, panelists said at the recent DNA-TeAM Disrupt session.
Technopreneur Leon Tan gets his dream geek-fest
How Leon Tan and his team managed to make the movie 'War of The Worlds: Goliath' is perhaps a lesson for all aspiring entrepreneurs, not just those in the creative content space. They had a vision, they had to get funding, the timing just came together, and they pivoted … many times.
Disrupt #3: Malaysia’s got creative talent, but is that enough?
The third of the monthly DNA-TeAM Disrupt series of sharing and networking events, on Nov 20, is on digital content. Specifically, our panelists are going to share their thoughts on the topic "Creative Content: Does Malaysia have talent? Is that talent enough to create success stories?” The panelists include Leon Tan of 'War of The Worlds: Goliath' fame and Chun Chong Leong, who has worked with Electronic Arts in Los Angeles and Shanghai, and headed Disney Interactive’s studio in Shanghai.
Opportunity in in-vehicle infotainment systems
Karamjit Singh looks into why CREST and Clarion Malaysia would organize an IVI solutions symposium, and why a trio of government agencies would support such an initiative.
TM, MDeC and StartupMalaysia kick off ‘corporate’ accelerator
Telekom Malaysia, the Multimedia Development Corporation and StartupMalaysia.org have kicked off a new accelerator program that they said sharpens the focus on getting startups to market quickly.
Koreans in town to strengthen business ties
The Korea-Asean ICT Partnership Program is set to take place on Nov 1 at Intercontinental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, to further boost business ties between South Korea and Malaysia.
