PLUS Picks Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications As Its Cloud Solution

Will consolidate PLUS Malaysia’s 37 years of legacy applications
New solution will be used to tackle finance and HR applications first  PLUS Malaysia Berhad (PLUS Malaysia), an expressway service provider, has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to manage its finance and…Continue Reading

EY should just drop its Woman Entrepreneur category

Entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth, impact are not gendered qualities
Those invited to judge can help make point by refusing to judge the category The EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 Malaysia awards were held on 13th January this year. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists. Thirteen entrepreneurs were vying for the…Continue Reading

MDEC Identifies 5 Plausible Future Trends of E-Commerce

Ubiquitous marketplace with personalised commerce, precise delivery network, and metaverse
Looking beyond 5G as rules of engagement shifts and consumer wants convenience E-commerce has exploded exponentially, especially in the recent few years.
 
The Department of Statistics Malaysia, DOSM, reported that Malaysia’s income on e-Commerce transactions surpassed the US$232.188 billion (RM1 trillion) mark for…Continue Reading

Petronas and SEDC to develop biofuels for aviation industry

Agreement covers cultivation, harvesting, extraction of crude algae oil
State sees development of next-gen renewable oil as potential game-changer Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas, and the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) have entered into a joint development agreement for microalgae oil production. The agreement is specifically for the development of algae production…Continue Reading

Digital Penang, Founder Institute partner to accelerate funding ecosystem for Penang startups 

Aims to transform development ideas into viable businesses
Programme will lead to creation of new startups in Penang Digital Penang and Founder Institute, an organisation which transforms concepts into viable startups and startups into global businesses announced a partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) exchange to cement the launch of the Malaysia Virtual…Continue Reading

VFlowTech raises US mil to expand global reach of renewable energy storage solutions 

Oversubscribed round was led by Japan-based VC, Real Tech Holdings 
Will to up 200MWh production capacity and scale up manufacturing VFlowTech, a Singapore-based provider of vanadium-based redox flow batteries, has raised US$10 million (RM43 million) in a Series A funding round. 
Led by Japan-based venture capital (VC) firm Real Tech Holdings, the oversubscribed round was participated…Continue Reading

MMU And KRU foundation to develop entrepreneur and creative talent

Collaboration will result in various up-skilling and re-skilling training programs
The move is hoped to make MMU a player in digital-based businesses Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia’s university for information and communication technology education, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the KRU Foundation to develop new talent in the field of digital…Continue Reading