YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Echelon , one of Southeast Asia’s biggest conferences for technology startups, has now expanded to its first full Malaysia edition and will take place November 24-25 in Kuala Lumpur. The one and a half day regional event, organized by e27 , will showcase selected Malaysia startups even as it explores Malaysia’s role in the global technology industry and help connect the Malaysia startup ecosystem with those from the rest of Southeast Asia and the broader Asia Pacific.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

The startup scenes in Southeast Asia – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, among others – have been thriving, attracting scores of students and young graduates who want to be part of their local startup movement. Launchpad is also supported by Cradle, an agency under Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance, which manages the Cradle Investment Programme. Ideaspotting Asia interns internship job Malaysia skills matching startup

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2013

Automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software provider National Instruments has announced the opening of National Instruments Academy & Innovation Nucleus (NI-AIN), a shared services lab facility in Technology Park Malaysia comprising over RM20 million (~US$6.25 Hopefully, this would also lead to greater economic and technological development in Malaysia as a whole.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2012

Music streaming subscription provider Deezer has announced that it will be enlarging its Asia footprint by extending its services to Singapore and Malaysia, just a few days after launching in Thailand. Axel Dauchez, CEO of Deezer, said, “We are thrilled to launch Deezer in Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia as part of our first foray into Asia,” says Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2013

Spotify also launches in Malaysia today; its Premium tier cost just RM14.90. In the News Asia digital music Malaysia music distribution music streaming online music Singapore Spotify The music scene in Singapore looks set to grow by volumes with today’s announcement that music streaming service Spotify is now available here. Music fans in the country now has on-demand, legal access to over 20 million music tracks – and for free.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2013

Events & Happenings event innovation life hacking Malaysia TEDx TEDxKL The term “life hacking” originally arose in the 1980s among computer programmers devising and employing tricks to cut through information overload. Today, that definition has extended to include any productivity trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity and efficiency in all walks of life; in other words, anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2011

Location-based mobile advertising network Chalkboard has announced an exclusive strategic partnership with device maker HTC in Malaysia, and launched a Chalkboard widget for HTC users in that country. HTC is proud to provide a richer experience for our users by incorporating Chalkboard – a service that works with thousands of local businesses – on our innovative handhelds,” explains SK Wong, Country Manager at HTC , Malaysia.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2012

From March 31st to April 1st, 2012, Kuala Lumpur’s National Science Centre will be hosting Hackweekend , a 24-hour challenge where the best of Malaysia’s technology community gather to build cool applications overnight. The theme for the upcoming Hackweekend , the third to date, will based on the theme Make Apps Not War, where participants are encouraged to build applications and software that revolve around the theme of love.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

This inaugural event was officiated by Y.A.Bhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (pictured right). With more than 200 booths, Malaysia has signaled its keen intent to place itself as the focal point in the region for experts and key players from local and international industry to exchange views and ideas. Malaysia wants to be in the Infosecurity Business. Malaysia is no exception.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2016

But how is the consumption behavior of Singapore compared to that of Malaysia? You can find it out below: Beer and Wine in Singapore and Malaysia. On an average, cost of a domestic Beer in Malaysia is RM11, and a bottle of wine costs RM50, which are pretty high compared to the prices in Europe. Even with the super high prices of alcoholic drinks, Malaysia is said to be the 10th largest consumer of alcohol in the world.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 9, 2021

In Malaysia, great strides have been made in the inclusion of women in the workforce. Out of all those unemployed in Malaysia, more than 60% of unemployed women cited housework (including childcare), while only 4% of unemployed men cited these reasons, Apolitical found in a study.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Startup competition Halal Tech POWER Challenge , created by Malaysia-based technology startup incubator Halal Tech Venture Builder , has opened for applications. The challenge will take place as one of the events during the four-day entrepreneurial event GREAT2014 - which takes place from September 17-20 – and looks to empower aspiring entrepreneurs to build successful global technology ventures with the aim of positioning Malaysia as a global technology hub.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Malaysia will see over 500 youth descend on its capital Kuala Lumpur this October for Global Startup Youth (GSY) , a three-day idea accelerator program aimed at helping young entrepreneurs shape and launch new projects that will hopefully evolve into sustainable global businesses. Held on October 8-11, Global Startup Youth is designed by StartupMalaysia in collaboration with partners including Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance, the US State Department, YouNoodle Inc.,

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2013

Prior to this round, TribeHired had received pre-seed funding from Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd , a government agency under the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia. The startup is currently in intensive beta testing with several thousand users in Malaysia providing feedback around real job opportunities, with clients in the startup space such as Zalora, Lazada, Flocations and Brandtology already using its service.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Inspired by Anthony Bourdain’s travels, innovations from various parts of the world we don’t usually expect innovation from Wushu Painting – Malaysia High-tech camel racing – UAE Global Video Blogger – Dennis Howlett Wi-fi Hopping – Zambia Raspberry Pi -.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2013

The online fashion store that recently opened for the Singapore and Malaysia markets look to outfit fashionistas with the latest fashion items just days after they are seen on the catwalks of Milan, London and New York. The final garments are produced in, and distributed throughout Singapore and Malaysia through SEA Citizen’s online store. “We Born and raised in Malaysia, the London-based Anuar-Mancini will shuttle between the fashion capital and Southeast Asia to run her business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2013

But the largest Southeast Asia-based taxi booking mobile application provider has set its sights on Singapore as its fourth market – Malaysia-based MyTeksi has announced the beta launch of its app GrabTaxi , after recent expansions to Philippines and Thailand. The level of detail within the app came from GrabTaxi actually sitting down with a number of cab drivers when they first started in Malaysia to work out the kinks in the ordering process.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The Startup Arena combatants were chosen by the Penn Olson team from over 300 applications across Asia, and they were: Piktochart (Malaysia). SecQMe (Malaysia). One stage. Two days. Four judges. Nineteen startups. One winner. The Startup Arena competition, part of Penn Olson ‘s two-day Startups in Asia Singapore conference, saw nineteen startups from all over Asia battle it out, with Singapore-based social collaborative learning platform Teamie emerging victorious.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I like to jokingly say “everyone in Malaysia could use Zoom daily” but it’s really true. About a year ago, a friend told us about this new work app they were using. Didn’t think much about it. Then, the same thing happened a few days later. It’s just the Bay Area echo chamber at work.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2013

Singapore-headquartered location-aware mobile advertising platform AdNear earlier this week announced its foray into the Southeast Asian markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, opening up its platform for advertisers who are looking to enable precision advertising on consumer mobile devices in those countries.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2015

For years I’ve studied the cultures in 10 Asian countries: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. But in Asian countries, including India and Malaysia, it was 50/50. Fast fact: In Malaysia, business guests are expected to recognize and respect the country’s diverse cultures, and to accommodate each one when celebrating, dining, or socializing. By Sharon Schweitzer, J.D.,

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2013

Following the online public voting, thirty semifinalists will be invited to the workshop, pitch session, and awards ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October 2013. Looking to launch or grow your startup?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the ASEAN-5 grouping of nations (including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines) will record average negative growth of -0.6%

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Malaysia. “We are currently working with a number of tier one telecom operators in APAC and continuing our committed expansion in the region,” adds Nick Halar, Cloudmark’s Regional Sales Director for ANZ, Singapore and Malaysia. Don’t we all hate email or SMS spam – those meaningless, time-wasting pieces of unsolicited digital miscommunication masquerading as marketing messages, for example.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2013

In a flash of the blindingly obvious, the recently released bin-annual jobsDB Asian Consumer Market Survey – which canvassed the opinions of 1,893 participants from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – revealed that workers in Singapore, as well as in Hong Kong, are becoming more ambitious and seeking out new, higher paying job roles, even in their later years.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2013

Singapore is the fourth market in Southeast Asia to surpass the 1-million mark, after Malaysia (1+ million), Indonesia (1.5+ LinkedIn first established an office here in Singapore back in 2011. Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

FashFix , from Singapore and Malaysia, helps fashionistas turn their wardrobes into blog shops. Singapore-based technology startup incubator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI.Asia – today unveiled a lineup of eight technology startups set to participate in its 100-day accelerator program this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2017

I found these points made well in a new book, “ Fearless Growth ,” by Amanda Setili, who has worked with disruptive technology startups in the United States and Malaysia, as well as some of the biggest companies in the world. Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now, nor more difficult. Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Also, in Southeast Asia the Islam is the dominant religion in most countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia which means that a lot of your Southeast Asian team members may not consume alcohol. The first platform we launched was our Singaporean site and we realised that most large companies there provide their staff with basic health insurance coverage and the same goes for Malaysia and Thailand.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2014

The recently concluded Adobe Education Leadership Forum held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia saw the software company unveil the results of an Asia Pacific-wide study entitled ‘ Education, Creativity and Employability ’ that looked at the intersection of creativity and creativity tools in the classroom and its relevance to the modern workforce.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

Malaysia’s largest bank Mayabank tasked Explainer Videoly to create a compelling animation video that can help the company connect and communicate on a deeper level with their local audience. The world as we know it has irrevocably changed after 31 st December 2019.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Malaysia on the other hand has the fourth highest proportion of “digital natives” in the world with more than 3.9 Digital marketing events have been getting tired of late, and perhaps it’s no surprise that interactive advertising and technology conference ad:tech in these parts recently rebranded itself into a regional event, ad:tech asean 2014.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I often catch myself saying “You know, everyone in Malaysia could be on Slack and Zoom.” People will often ask me, “So, what are the big tech trends right now?” ” In 2020, I gave 1.5 answers to that question. The obvious trend in startups (which has been going on for a year or two) is the idea of the “prosumer as the new consumer.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

These businesses are exporters from around Asia including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. We’ve always known anecdotally that Singaporeans spent a lot of time – and money – on e-commerce, buying a whole range of goods from fashion to jewelry. But what most don’t realize is that Singaporeans actually sell plenty of goods online as well.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2017

Gogoprint , a leading Southeast Asian online printing company founded in late 2015, has been working hard to do just that in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Even though it might all seem basic and easy, implementing such a strong structure in three very different markets (Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore) like Gogoprint did, is by no means a walk in the park. In the world of e-commerce, online sales are the bread and butter for firms of any size.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Usually, these offshore suppliers are in Asia, (India, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines), Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia), or Africa (Morocco, Kenya and South Africa).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

in Malaysia. Online daily deal sites have been experiencing explosive growth over the past two years, and the phenomenon seems unabated. The next big wave in daily deals seems to be in the mobile space, what with many of these sites introducing mobile applications to make bargain hunting all the more convenient.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2011

Bloapp is the brainchild of Nicky Wong, the founder and director of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based Infindo Technology ( www.infindo.com ). Creating a mobile application can be very time-consuming and expensive, which is why a lot of bloggers and blog sites don’t bother coming out with a mobile app of their own. Not any more – Bloapp ( www.bloapp.com ) is a free web tool that helps converts blogs into a native iPhone app in less than five minutes. And the best part?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2013

Evernote Business then came to Asia through Korea and the launch of Yinxiang Biji Business in China earlier this month, but the company has announced that Evernote Business will now be made available in more markets across APAC including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam) We’ve identified some factors that set them apart from other ride-sharing outfits. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Applications has streamed in from all over Asia, with applicants from Singapore and India comprising over half of the total number, with representation even from the UK – India (28%), Singapore (23%), Philippines (7%), Indonesia (6%), Taiwan (4%), Vietnam (4%), UK (3%), Malaysia (3%), Thailand (3%), US (3%), Australia (2%), Japan (1%) and Hong Kong (1%).

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

We know global markets are open — today, for example, everyone in Malaysia could be a DAU for Zoom. If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. In short, in my 6.5 years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. Granted, 6.5 years is not a long arc – I have not experienced a prolonged down market as a private investor.

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