85 % of people think that personal decisions can have an impact on economic progress.However, just 1 in 10 people invest in clean industries.According to study findings, customers in Southeast Asia are confident in their capacity to significantly impact the environment through their eating habits. Even though they couldn’t see how…Continue Reading
Invested over US$22.4 million in R&D and deals since 2004
First RFID module became’s world smallest by a wide margin
Being an innovator is tough. Being an innovator in a market that is sceptical of home grown innovation can be brutal. Being an innovator in technology in a sceptical market is almost a mission…Continue Reading
Invested over US$22.4 million in R&D and deals since 2004
First RFID module became’s world smallest by a wide margin
Being an innovator is tough. Being an innovator in a market that is sceptical of home grown innovation can be brutal. Being an innovator in technology in a sceptical market is almost a mission…Continue Reading
Zubin Rada Krishnan succeeds Salim Dhanani as acting group CEO
BigPay currently has 1.3mil users representing nearly 50% growth YoY
BigPay, a Capital A venture company and fintech in Southeast Asia has announced the appointment of Zubin Rada Krishnan (pic) as acting Group CEO.
Zubin was the Malaysia country head for BigPay the past year and…Continue Reading
The joint venture company will have a 75% and 25% equity steak
It will develop and operate the JK1 IBX in Jakarta’s Central Business District Equinix, a Nasdaq listed digital infrastructure company and Indonesian conglomerate, PT Astra International, announced a joint venture company on 11 April with 75% and 25% equity respectively to develop the…Continue Reading
Participants stand a chance to win up to US$5k, get expert mentoring
Programme to help crack down on financial crime, evaluation in 3 categories Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), in partnership with the Financial Intelligence Consultative Group (FICG), will be co-hosting the AML/CFT Hackathon 2023 from 1 to 28 June to develop digital solutions to…Continue Reading
Of 100 applications, 10 will vie for US$11.3k pre-seed funding
Supported by MRANTI, Digital Penang, WORQ, and Google for Startups 1337 Ventures, a Malaysian early-stage venture capital firm, has unveiled the Top 10 startups for its Alpha Startups Pre-Accelerator. The startups showcased ideas including a farmland marketplace for farmers, sustainable fashion, a self-care and…Continue Reading
Malaysia is digitally savvy but startups often find it difficult to thrive
Economy Ministry launches innovation hackathon open to all Malaysians Our mobile and internet penetration, online shopping pervasiveness, digital payments maturity and social media usage are one of the highest in the world. We are even considered âdigital life leadersâ and not…Continue Reading
It claims to be Southeast Asiaâs first Apple Training Centre
Taught by development team from Apple, including Apple Distinguished Educatorsâ Complete Human Network (CHN) and the Selangor Technical Skills Development Centre (STDC) have collaborated to launch a one-month course designed to teach participants skills in developing native iOS mobile apps using Swift UI and…Continue Reading
US$100k for scaling Skills Hub platform, US$100k worth of devices from HP
Run workshops in 12 Orang Asli villages, touch 10k graduates for Skills Hub [Ed: Headline corrected. An earlier version gave the wrong name for the foundation.]
âI would consider Orang Asli to sometimes even be B20 because thereâs more of a digital divide for…Continue Reading