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30-second summary: Organizations must consider how the current crisis will also change long-term social interactions, events, personal contacts and what products and services will better serve them in the new post COVID-19 world. Many customer behavior changes will require new or modified products and services. New market leaders will emerge while some past leaders falter.Read more

We had seen over the last few weeks that the Malaysia Government took quite fair a bit of time to introduce the SME stimulus package. Well kudos that it has now been done after so much lobbying from the associations that represents the SME business community. One of last hurdle that many SMEs want toRead more

The government is providing mask inventory data of pharmacies as an open API to help developers launch apps that notify civilians about the inventory statuses of pharmacy goods amid shortages from the COVID-19 outbreak. The South Korean government has released its mask sales data to the public by providing it as an open API to encourageRead more

World Bank says sectors affected are tourism, FDI, supply chains and commodities, which include palm oil and O&G by NUR HANANI AZMAN / pic by BLOOMBERG THE Covid-19 outbreak could cost the country’s economy RM5.9 billion this year and the figure could rise further if authorities around the world fail to contain the spread ofRead more

Covid-19 might have caused tourism to plunge, but it has paved the way for e-commerce to flourish as consumers switch to online channels to buy products and services and refrain from going to crowded spaces to avoid the virus risk. Thanawat Malabuppha, president of Thailand e-Commerce Association and CEO and co-founder of Priceza, a popularRead more

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in In focus/Meituan, TechNode’s biweekly newsletter on the O2O services company. TechNode members get access to the most detailed coverage of the new tech giant available anywhere in English—sign up here to join. This article was co-authored by Nicole Jao. In recent weeks, our WeChat Moment newsfeeds have been heavyRead more

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has hit a great number of countries and turned out to be even worse than the critical economic, strategic and political clashes happening around the world. The coronavirus outbreak has and still is impacting all industries, including the information and communication technologies sector. Tech giants have halted operations, cancelled their participation in importantRead more

5 November 2018   Chris Daniel Wong President of Malaysia Digital Chamber of Commerce www.mdcc.org.my   Reducing Environmental “Exhaust” Through New Digitally-Sustainable Business Models & Processes   Every business is now a digital business in one form or another. In the spirit of “making IT good for society” in the words of the British ComputerRead more

13 October 2018 Chris Daniel Wong President of Malaysia Digital Chamber of Commerce www.mdcc.org.my Increasing Productivity through Digital Disruption  On a recent trip attending an executive education programme at University of California Berkeley, it strikes me how much the retail world has changed owing to technology disruption. Many of my peers in the classroom hadRead more

MDCC is 3 years old today, and we had just finished our 3rd Council Meeting for tonight for year of 2018! Malaysia Digital Chamber of Commerce had grown older and new members come, old member go – I would like to thank all the council members that work hard and putting their precious time toRead more