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Hong Leong’s Got RM200 Mil Reserved For Small Businesses In M’sia
Hong Leong Bank Berhad have partnered with Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia to provide local SMEs with up to RM200 million loan facilities through the Portfolio Guarantee scheme. The scheme aims...
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All E-Scooters In Singapore Need To Be Registered From Second Half Of 2018
E-scooter owners, take note. Senior Minister of State for Transport Lam Pin Min today (7 Mar) announced at the ministry’s Committee of Supply debate that all e-scooter owners will soon have to register...
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Microsoft Fans Rejoice – Tech Giant Unveils First SEA Surface Store In...
Microsoft announced yesterday (6 March) the opening of its first Surface store in Singapore and its first in Southeast Asia. The store is located in the Harvey Norman flagship superstore at Millennia...
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BNM Thinks That Malaysia’s Future Is QR Codes, Despite Many Challenges
Bank Negara is in the midst of developing the ICTF framework, which in part wants to help usher in QR codes into a more mainstream Malaysian presence. It will make other payment services adhere to...
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Carsome Bags US$19 Mil In Another Funding Round. Their Secret? Data.
Used car platform Carsome have just announced a successful round of Series B funding, in which they acquired US$19 million in funding from lead investors Burda Principal Investments along with other...
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CIMB M’sia Now Only Takes Only 1 Minute To Approve Your Housing Loan Application
CIMB Bank and CIMB Islamic Bank have just announced the 1-Minute Home Financing service as a new feature to complement their InstaApproval platform. Through the service, potential homeowners will be...
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Singapore’s Female To Male Entrepreneur Ratio Takes A Tumble In 2018
Singapore has been ranked as the 5th best market globally with the strongest supporting conditions and opportunities for women to thrive as entrepreneurs, according to Mastercard’s Index of Women...
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A Bank Negara Director Explains His Perspective On Cryptocurrency In Malaysia
Malaysia’s cryptocurrency guidelines determined that cryptocurrency isn’t legal tender in Malaysia, and that exchanges need to adhere to eKYC rules. The public needs to be careful when transacting in...
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How Eldwin Chua Built The Paradise Group Empire From A Coffeeshop At Defu Lane
Most of you might find this story familiar. At 13, a boy starting working in a fast food restaurant for extra cash. At 16, he worked three jobs a day, including a job at a seafood restaurant to earn...
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The Singaporean Millennial And The ‘Side Hustle’– 5 Of Them Show Us How It’s...
Since May 2016, I’ve needed to give up Sunday mornings for work – tutoring a Primary 3 kid. Fast forward to now – I’m still teaching the same kid (now Primary 5) on Sunday mornings. I’m also tutoring...
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We Took A Tour Of Grab Singapore’s R&D Centre, And Spoke To The Women Running...
Since Grab entered the Singapore market, the way we hail for rides has become much simpler and convenient. In just a few taps, we are able to get a ride to our destination fuss-free, and at...
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Why These 23-Year-Old M’sians Opened A Co-Working Space Instead Of “Getting A...
The Playground is a co-working space located in Kota Damansara that caters to students, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. It was founded in February 2018 by Quintus Woon and Kenneth Lee Ron—two fresh...
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GrabCycle Lets You Choose Which Bike To Ride In One App – To Launch By First...
Grab, most commonly known for its ride sharing platform, has just announced that it is launching GrabCycle Beta, an app that will aggregate bike sharing partners oBike, GBikes, Anywheel, and Popscoot...
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WOBB Now Has AI That Can Tell If You’re Really Serious About That Job...
Malaysian online job portal WOBB have launched an artificial intelligence system called Aivi to help employers screen through applicants during the early stage of the hiring process, saving them time...
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This Isn’t Just A Bill Payment App, It Could Be Sarawak’s Virtual Bank In The...
As part of their ambitious digital economy push, Sarawak launched the Sarawak Pay app, for bill payments. Eventually, the vision is for Sarawakians to use it for all of their cash transactions, from...
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OWNDAYS Singapore Just Got Owned By Their Own Success – Here’s What Went Wrong
Just 2 days after we talked about how OWNDAYS Singapore’s follower discount campaign was pretty clever in getting them the publicity and participation they wanted, it seems like they’ve just become...
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The Battle Is Over – Court Releases Verdict Of PropertyGuru And 99.co Lawsuit
The verdict for the PropertyGuru vs. 99.co battle is out. As a quick background, local property portal PropertyGuru sued fellow property portal 99.co, stating that the latter had committed copyright...
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From Laptops To Tabletops – Founders Of Aftershock PC Unveils New Company...
“We want to revolutionise the way people choose their desks and let them construct their personal work and play space as if they were building an Aftershock PC from ground up.” – Marcus Wee, co-founder...
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Their Leave System Was Inefficient, So This M’sian Team Turned Their HR...
Ms.Winkly is a HR app for SME entrepreneurs and managers to handle their employee’s online. The app lets you manage your employee’s attendance, leaves applications, claim and more in one platform. The...
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Mario Is Taking Over Your Google Maps App To Make Driving More Fun
Fans of Mario are in for a treat the next time they open up the Google Maps app to navigate to their next destination. In celebration of MAR10 Day, Google and Nintendo are teaming up to bring your...
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