Kuala Lumpur, 2 December 2020 - Singapore-headquartered ride-hailing company Grab Holdings Inc has launched GrabSupermarket, its first delivery-only supermarket in the region, as part of its continued push into grocery delivery. In a statement today, the firm said the Klang Valley located GrabSupermarket, which began piloting a few weeks ago,...
Kuala Lumpur, 1 December 2020 - Communicating through live chat interfaces has become an increasingly popular means to provide real-time customer service in the 21st century. Human customer service agents are being replaced by computer software agents or chatbot. The chatbot is a system designed to communicate with...
Kuala Lumpur, 1 December 2020 – Riding on the momentum of its Net Zero Carbon Emissions 2050 declaration in October, PETRONAS has joined forces with the United Nations Global Compact Network Malaysia & Brunei (UNGCMY&B) at the recent GO ESG ASEAN Corporate Sustainability Virtual Summit 2020 to position sustainability...
Kuala Lumpur, 1 December 2020 - Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd has brought the Huawei Spark programme to Malaysia -- a programme which aims to incubate and accelerate company growth and build an ecosystem for businesses in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The programme was launched today in collaboration with the...
Kuala Lumpur, 30 November 2020 - Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV), in a statement today, announced that ten (10) technology start-ups will be the first cohort of technology companies confirmed to receive RM13.75 million in cumulative financing under MDV’s Technology Start-Ups Funding Relief Facility (TSFRF) programme. The technology start-ups include...
Kuala Lumpur, 27 November 2020 - Delivery platform foodpanda, through its on-demand delivery service Shops, is offering daily essentials and grocery delivery services from over 3,500 vendors nationwide with a delivery time of under 30 minutes. In a statement yesterday, foodpanda said some of the most popular vendors on Shops include Tesco,...
Kuala Lumpur, 27 November 2020 - Opening the largest Esports competition in the world, PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC), PUBG MOBILE reveals its groundbreaking 2021 esports program, boasting an incredible $14,000,000 USD prize pool, the highest in mobile esports history.  Following an exceptional year that broke all viewership records for...
Kuala Lumpur, 26 November 2020 - The bipartisan approval of the hotly debated Budget 2021 worth RM322.5 billion is bound to instil confidence and augurs well for the country as it embarks on economic recovery following unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It would be able to instil confidence...
Kuala Lumpur, 26 November 2020 – FWD Takaful Berhad (“FWD Takaful”) has partnered with UnBound Malaysia, to develop an Augmented Reality (“AR”) game as a new approach to promote, educate, and improve the awareness of Takaful protection. The game, aptly titled “UnBound, powered by FWD Takaful” will be introduced...
Kuala Lumpur, 26 November 2020 – Malaysia’s multiple award-winning food waste innovation and management solutions pioneer - MAEKO, has launched its equity crowdfunding campaign (ECF) via Ata Plus, a registered and recognised ECF platform by the Securities Commission. It is raising up to a maximum of RM4,000,000 and participating...