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30 June 2022 – The Malaysia Digital Economy Forum 2022 is a national event and is one of the most comprehensive and happening digital based event in Malaysia’s Calendar annually. Theme – The Next Big Things, Beyond Endemic!, the event showcase and provide a platform of meetings for digital industrialist from adoption to implementation onRead more

10 start-up companies was invited to pitch to more than 20 listed company and VCs. The objective of the programmer is to showcase Malaysia exciting start-ups to venture capitalist and corporate investors. The programmer is also aim to support the growth of start-up ecosystem in the country. The date for the second edition of theRead more

With data being “the new gold”, Malaysia is set to enjoy economic ripple effects from the RM4bil “Bersama Malaysia” initiative with tech giant Microsoft Corp that will also strengthen the country’s potential as a regional data hub. The initiative will see Microsoft set up its first data centre region in the country to deliver trustedRead more

The unveiling of the Strategic Programme to Empower the People and Economy (Pemerkasa) by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin recently demonstrates the government’s continuous commitment to strengthening the economic recovery efforts and subsequently, turbo-charging the economic growth. Some of the initiatives in the sixth stimulus package will propel Malaysia’s preparedness to adapt to theRead more

Executives from some of the country’s biggest start-ups have welcomed Putrajaya’s recently-launched digital economy blueprint but with reservations about its goals and the timeline set to achieve them. While the 10-year MyDigital plan will put the government on track to spur the high potential sector, they said the initiative appeared convoluted and lacked vigour inRead more

For several years now, eCommerce has seen slow and steady growth across Southeast Asia. But what the pandemic did last year was to catapult the growth so that eCommerce went from being an experiment for some brands to a necessity for most. Today’s eCommerce platforms such as Shopee are fast becoming the platforms of choiceRead more

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) expects investor confidence to get a boost as Malaysia accelerates its digital economy agenda with the recent announcement of the national digital economy blueprint MyDigital. Based on the Department of Statistics Malaysia report, the digital economy’s contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) for 2019 stood at 19.1% or RM289.2bil.Read more

Guaranteed compensation and good customer service are in very rare supply these days, especially in sea freight. However, Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm, has pledged cheaper, more reliable shipping services to its customers – and promised to compensate them for delays. Cainiao today launched a shipment booking service, for air and sea, covering 200 ports inRead more