Digital Transformation

Uber’s proposed $15 billion acquisition of Delivery Hero could mark the ride-hailing giant’s return to Southeast Asia eight years after exiting the region, potentially reshaping competition across ASEAN’s on-demand services market, Maybank Investment Bank Research said Monday.

"The Johor state government takes note of and fully supports the decision of the special meeting of the Iskandar Puteri City Council (MBIP) to revoke the business license and order all activities of NS0 Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Network School) in Forest City to cease, effective July 22, 2026," the chief minister of Johor state Onn Hafiz Ghazi said in a Facebook…

Ali Shaheen of Protaigé discusses how enterprise AI is moving beyond copilots toward agentic workflows, and why reliability, memory, guardrails, and accountability are becoming critical for adoption.

Temasek, Singapore's state investment company, plans to lift its direct AI exposure from about 6 percent of its current portfolio to 10-15 percent by March 2031.

QAI Ventures, a global venture capital firm focused on quantum technologies and advanced computing, has launched the inaugural cohort of its Singapore Quantum Accelerator.

Acti, a Singapore-based company describing itself as the world's first agentic keyboard, has raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by the United States-based BITKRAFT Ventures.

Malaysia is stepping up efforts to create more high-value jobs in advanced industries with the launch of the BAKAT MADANI initiative, a national program aimed at strengthening talent pipelines in semiconductors, renewable energy, the digital economy and advanced manufacturing.

Indonesia's digital competitiveness score rose to 42.2 in 2026, up from 38.8 in 2025, according to East Ventures's Digital Competitiveness Index 2026, marking a more than 50 percent increase in the average provincial score since 2020.

Malaysia is seeking to position itself as a regional leader in the emerging low altitude economy (LAE), with the government working on a regulatory framework to support new aviation technologies such as drones, air taxis and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, its Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook said Tuesday.