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Antler, a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm, has on Tuesday announced the $72 million close of its second Southeast Asia fund, Antler SEA Fund II. The new Fund will continue investing in early-stage tech-enabled companies in Southeast Asia with pre-launch, pre-seed, and seed capital.

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.

Officiated by Chang Lih Kang, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI), the event underscores Malaysia's commitment to advancing technopreneurship. It brought together technopreneurs, academics, tech industry experts, government officials, and other professionals from across the Asia-Pacific region.

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.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has harnessed the power of its cloud technologies to drive multiple initiatives throughout the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (Paris 2024).

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.