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In encouraging Malaysia’s oil and gas services and equipment (OGSE) suppliers to embrace sustainability principles, Malaysia's state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) has on Tuesday launched the Petronas Supplier Support Program (PSSP) in collaboration with the Joint Committee for Climate Change (JC3) Greening Value Chain Program, Bursa Malaysia…

Maxis, a Malaysia-based telecommunication firm, and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Huawei Malaysia), a subsidiary of Chinese multinational digital communications technology conglomerate Huawei, have on Tuesday announced a strategic collaboration on a Joint Innovation Center in Malaysia.

By prioritizing cybersecurity education and training, businesses can safeguard their digital assets, maintain customer trust, and build a robust defense against the ever-changing cyber threat landscape. The journey towards #cybersecurity resilience begins with educating and empowering the #workforce.

AI is a powerful tool but can have unintended consequences. As companies have rushed to use it in hiring, its impact on job-seekers has been more negative than positive. Organizations must fight against this trend to have genuine interviews and not turn applicants away. That may mean a less disruptive approach to AI, but the results will be worth it.

HealthCRED, an India-based business to business (B2B) healthcare financing startup, announced Monday that it has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round.

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat) Group and Google Cloud have on Monday announced an expanded partnership to deliver next-generation sovereign cloud and edge cloud services in Indonesia that meet the country’s most stringent data residency, security, and privacy requirements.

Philippine Central Bank Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the lifting of the moratorium on the grant of new digital banking licenses starting January 1, 2025 and allowed a maximum of ten digital banks to operate in the country.

Malaysia's electric vehicle (EV) charging firm EV Connection (EVC) and clean energy firm Gentari have become the first parties to receive licenses for public installation of EV charging systems in Sabah from the Energy Commission of Sabah (ECoS).

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has experienced significant growth in 2024, with total value locked (TVL) more than doubling its value since the previous year. According to CoinGecko, the DeFi ecosystem boasts over $91.76 billion in locked assets as of June 2024, demonstrating a shift in market sentiment toward increased trust and adoption. Among the…

Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB has Malaysian government-owned CyberSecurity Malaysia to establish a framework to fortify Malaysia’s cyber resilience, and safeguard its national interests and critical IT infrastructure.