SMEs

Equity crowdfunding: The good, and not so good
Industry players DNA spoke to share some of the pros and cons of the consultative paper Securities Commission Malaysia has put up for industry feedback on the impending launch of Malaysia’s equity crowdfunding platform.
arcserve spreads its wings as an independent company
Not long after it unveiled a fresh corporate identity and its new Unified Data Protection (UDP) platform, news emerged in August that arcserve will now be a standalone company, following the completion of its sale to Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over US$3 billion of capital under its management.
Celcom inks MoU with MITI to help create competitive SMEs
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has appointed Celcom Axiata Berhad an anchor company for the implementation of the Vendor Development Programme (VDP).
Acronis sees an Asian future for its backup solutions
Asia accounts for 30% of revenue, emerging markets a current key focus  New generation of data protection solutions expected to be unveiled in 2015
AIM to be dissolved in 2020, programmes to live on
18 initiatives divided into indirect, direct interventions Conference in August to highlight innovative practices
Digital Malaysia: MDeC launches SME e-commerce reward programme
MDeC has announced an e-commerce reward programme to spur the growth of SMEs doing business online, as part of the Digital Malaysia initiative.
Midmarket companies aggressively embracing big data: Dell survey
Big data has been considered the domain of enterprise organisations and not necessarily a relevant challenge or opportunity for midmarket companies. A Dell Software survey of big data initiatives in the midmarket, however, reveals just the opposite.
Week in Review: Yet another bid to help SMEs, using IP
Having covered SMEs for five years, DNA founder Karamjit Singh offers his take of what the latest government initiative to embed IP into SMEs will need to do to have a chance of succeeding.
Innovation company PlaTCOM to be self-sustainable by 2020
PlaTCOM Ventures Sdn Bhd, an initiative formed between AIM and SME Corp, aims to be self-sustainable by as early as 2020. Its executive director Dr Viraj Perera explains how the company aims to achieve that goal when similar initiatives in the UK and US took 8-10 years to be self-sustainable.
Google's AdWords platform in Bahasa aimed at Malaysian SMEs
Google Malaysia has officially launched the Bahasa Malaysia (BM) or Malay version of its AdWords advertising platform in Malaysia, a move the search giant claimed would give MEs the opportunity to reach the majority of the country’s population.
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