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Halogen Capital Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia-based licensed digital asset fund manager, announced Monday the successful completion of its $3.2 million funding round, with Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad, Malaysia’s independent investment bank, as the lead investor, alongside 500 Global, a global venture capital firm, and other investors.

Salesforce, the global artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM), announced Monday that University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) is adopting Agentforce, the digital labor platform that enables businesses to transform into Agentic Enterprises, to enhance student experience during the university applications process.

Vietnam's information technology (IT) services provider FPT has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mishima Kosan Co., Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer, to advance a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI)-powered manufacturing platform and strengthen digital innovation across the sector.

Shizen Energy Inc. announced Monday that the project company SM 01 Sdn. Bhd. has achieved financial close for the 29.99 megawatt (MW) solar power project under Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Program (CGPP) and signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google.

Vietnam, one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing digital markets, is seeing its e-commerce seller economy expand at breakneck speed, driven by a young, digitally fluent generation of entrepreneurs - but the ecosystem supporting them is struggling to keep pace, according to a new study by leading consumer research firm Milieu Insight.

Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle), Malaysia’s focal point agency for startup ecosystem under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), has formalized a strategic collaboration with United Kingdom-based strategy consulting firm, wippd ltd, under the Cradle Innovation Advisory (CIA) initiative.

Analysts have foreseen risk-fraught recovery for Malaysia's technology sector in 2026, despite positive global growth tailwinds and improving second half (2025) revenue growth momentum amongst domestic backend players.

Maybank Investment Bank sees ASEAN riding on artificial intelligence (AI) boom in next two years because AI capital expenditure (capex) is booming in the region as global tech giants race to invest in chips, data centers and equipment, fueling Asia’s tech exports, energy demand, construction.

Indonesian enterprises are signaling one of the region’s strongest appetites for digital transformation, GSMA said Wednesday.

MarinaChain, a South Korea-based maritime decarbonization technology company, has partnered with GreenMarine, a Singapore-based cleantech provider, to establish to build an integrated carbon compliance hub in Singapore.