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AI adoption accelerates as workers rethink careers and future skills Confidence gap emerges as employers expect growth but workers remain cautious Randstad’s latest Workmonitor report reveals a growing confidence gap in Malaysia’s labour market: while 95% of employers expect business growth this year, only 68% of Malaysian talent share that optimism. The disconnect suggests businesses […]

Positioning for a significant step-change in scale, targeting approximately 10× revenue growth by 2026, Trust foundational to Collektr growth, since launch it has recorded zero counterfeit incidents Collektr, an Asia-built authentic collectibles commerce platform, today announced that several global family offices, and angel investors such as that entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan who runs The Network School

ATE Campus initiative aims to deepen localisation and industry collaboration Industry leaders appointed to steering committee to advance four growth pillars The Penang state government has allocated ten acres of industrial land worth about US$10 million (RM40 million) to establish the Penang Automation, Test and Equipment (ATE) Campus, an initiative aimed at strengthening the state’s

Industry urges state-specific GBS hubs to unlock new growth beyond Klang Valley Sector shifts from cost efficiency to higher-value services driven by AI, data and talent Malaysia’s Global Business Services (GBS) industry should expand beyond its traditional hubs by developing state-specific service centres that leverage local strengths, according to industry leaders. While the sector has

How creator-driven demand can be converted into sustainable commercial scale In 2025 brands sold US$3.5 bil goods across its eCommerce platforms, distribution, and fintech businesses Commerce.Asia believes the next wave of scalable brands in Southeast Asia will come not from bigger ad budgets, but from creators with credibility, community, and the right operating backbone, with

Expands hyperscale capacity to support rising AI and cloud demand Establishes hydrogen, nuclear and clean-energy partnerships to power next-gen data centres Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a Singapore-headquartered digital infrastructure platform backed by Bain Capital, has announced plans to invest US$2.3 billion to US$3.9 billion (RM9 billion–RM15 billion) in Singapore to advance next-generation digital infrastructure and strengthen

AI-powered research agents to enhance access to Islamic finance knowledge NurAI framework integrates Shariah-aligned intelligence with academic research Zetrix AI Berhad, formerly known as MY E.G. Services Berhad, and INCEIF University, through its research arm ISRA Institute, have entered into a strategic collaboration to develop next-generation Islamic Finance AI Agents built on NurAI. In a

US$820mil invested to date DC will be supplied by renewable energy from solar farm, starting 2028 Designed to run on 100% reclaimed water, treated through two dedicated water treatment plants Malaysia has reached a new milestone in sustainable digital infrastructure with the country’s first hyperscale data centre to receive provisional GreenRE Platinum certification for water,

JV of Asia Mobiliti and Bus Buddy marks first international foray, looking at Indonesia and Pacific Island countries next School transportation remains one of least digitised components of mobility ecosystem with manual attendance processes Bus Buddy Technologies Sdn Bhd, a joint venture of Asia Mobiliti Sdn Bhd, Malaysiaʼs leading mobility and digital city solutions company

Project aligns with Singapore’s push for sustainable data centre growth Partnership explores energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI data centres DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered global data centre developer and operator, and Cortical Labs, a Melbourne-based biological computing startup, today announced a partnership to build Singapore’s first Biological Data Centre — what the company claims to be the