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Zhu Min, vice-chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges and former deputy managing director of the IMF, speaks at the subforum themed “A New Blueprint of Digital China” of the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, June 28, 2023. /WEF Zhu Min, vice-chairman of China Center for International Economic ExchangesRead more

MyIX chairman Chiew Kok Hin (centre right, in blue jeans) with the exchange’s committee members. The Malaysia Internet Exchange (MyIX) reported the Internet bandwidth demand in the country reached a record peak of 2.1 TeraBits per second (Tbps) last month (May 2023). This is an almost four-fold increase from the 588 GigaBits per second (Gbps)Read more

New Zealand on Wednesday backed China’s participation in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) It also supported China’s bid to join the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) during Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ visit Chinese Premier Li Qiang (back, right) and New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (back, left) applaud during a signingRead more

Bursa Malaysia Bhd expressed its support to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to take action against Meta for failing to remove undesirable content relating to, amongst others, scam advertisements on its platform. In a statement today, Bursa Malaysia Said it had identified over 60 pages on Meta’s platform Facebook impersonating its chief executiveRead more

According to the terms, Maxis will provide the services to TM for a period of three years. Telekom Malaysia Bhd’s  (TM) has awarded Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd with a job to provide 2G and 4G domestic roaming services and 4G multi operator core network (MOCN) services that will enable it to extend its coverage byRead more

Growth in Malaysia’s data centre and cloud ecosystems is influenced by factors such as internet behaviour, application ecosystems, and energy generation, as discussed by industry representatives at the 2nd Datacentre & Cloud Infrastructure Summit (DCCI) held in Kuala Lumpur last month. According to Glen Duncan (pic above), JLL APAC Data centre Research Director, understanding these factorsRead more

The AI-powered shopping cart ezyCart offers personalised promotions, rewards, and in-cart self-check-out payments Retailetics has developed a smart cart called ezyCart As weekly grocery shoppers, Manirajah Kulanthavelu and Shaji Rajappan were frustrated with the time they had to spend just locating products in the store and lining up in slow-moving checkout queues to pay. DespiteRead more

Mumbai: Fintech startup Basic Home Loan, an online brokerage for mortgages, has secured a $4.7 million equity investment in a pre-Series B funding round. The round was led by equity investor Ashish Kacholia, with existing investors Gruhas and Venture Catalysts increasing their stake. New investors including Dexter Angels, IIM Indore Alumni Angel Fund, and CommsCredibleRead more

(Left to right) Ipoh City Council senior director (services) Zulkifle Jaafar Sidek, Go Plus Hub chief founder and executive officer Jeff Wong, Perak Cultural Economy Policy and Research Centre director Shannon Lee and Perak State Tourism, Industry, Investment & Corridor Development Committee chariman Loh Sze Yee announce Ipoh’s NFT-driven festival. — Picture courtesy of Cultural EconomyRead more

Google Trends is a useful tool to observe how trends are changing for specific topics. This time, I entered the three phrases that represent paradigm shifts in AI technology: “Expert System,” “Deep Learning,” and “Generative AI” to observe the results. Using 2004, the earliest available data point in Google Trends, as a starting point, interestRead more