Kuala Lumpur, 1 June 2020 - Malaysia's next round of economic stimulus should again focus on improving the B40 and M40 groups' purchasing power to boost domestic spending, economists said.
The stimulus, which can be expected to be unveiled by this week, would also ensure the SME sector can sustain...
Kuala Lumpur, 29 May 2020 - Vantage Point Consulting Sdn Bhd has partnered with Microsoft to introduce freemium collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) digitise.
Vantage Point is a leading SAP services partner in Malaysia and has implemented more than 100 major projects...
Kuala Lumpur, 28 May 2020 - The government expects more businesses to reopen next week after the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration and resume their full productivity level in the coming weeks.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Economy) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said this will ensure that jobs are kept...
Kuala Lumpur, 27 May 2020 - Axiata Group Bhd, Malaysia’s third-biggest telecom operator by subscribers, said it would select two equipment suppliers to roll out 5G services, opening the door for the likes of Ericsson to fight it out with dominant player Huawei.
Huawei Technologies, the world’s top telecoms equipment maker,...
Malaysia, 22 May 2020 - Plus Malaysia Bhd is now using a chatbot to handle queries on traffic conditions and other FAQs.
The chatbot, Plus Texting Realtime Interface (Putri), was designed to handle over 70% of the 1,500 calls that the highway’s Traffic Monitoring Centre (TMC) receives daily.
According to the...
Kuala Lumpur, 21 May 2020 - The government needs to consider policies to address issues that could derail business continuity, especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and how they provide services to the customers during this difficult period of COVID-19.
This can be achieved by leveraging digital transformation, of which Microsoft (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd is keen to...
Kuala Lumpur, 20 May 2020 -- CIMB Bank Bhd and CIMB Islamic Bank Bhd (CIMB) continues to assist the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, especially businesses without a digital presence, through a series of webinars to help them escalate their digital capabilities.
CIMB Group chief executive officer, group commercial banking, Victor...
Petaling Jaya, 20 May 2020 – Moneysave (M) Sdn. Bhd. has recently announced the launch of its Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Crowdfunding platform to assist 40,000 Malaysian SMEs with RM8 billion worth of investments from investors with between 7 and 16% returns per annum in the next 5 years.
According to Chief...
Kuala Lumpur, 19 May 2020 - The movement control order (MCO) as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated just how critical technology's role is both as an operations enabler and for business continuity purposes.
SAP Malaysia Sdn Bhd managing director Hong Kok Cheong said the MCO has changed...
Kuala Lumpur, 18 May 2020 - Malaysia, through InvestKL Corporation Sdn Bhd, has attracted 91 global multinationals (MNCs) with approved and committed investments of RM13.95 billion since 2011.
InvestKL said the 91 MNCs had created 12,584 regional high-skilled jobs since 2011.
"This comprised 91 per cent of InvestKL's 2020 mandate and...