October 2019
A round-up of Malaysia’s key tech, startup and funding news from October of 2019.
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- Malaysia: China’s Huawei secures role in country’s 5G rollout with local partner Maxis telecoms major
- Malaysia: IoT proposed as method to help solve the country’s traffic woes via traffic lights that respond to real-time data collected by cameras and sensors
- Malaysia: Hacktoberfest Penang 2019 set for October 13th, part of the worldwide Hacktoberfest event
- Malaysia: E-Nation event, ‘Shaping an Entrepreneurial Nation’, set for October 30-November 2nd
- Australia’s Power Ledger partners Malaysia’s Sustainable Energy Development Authority to trial peer to peer energy trading
- A look at the recent Malaysia Rice Bowl Conference & National Awards Ceremony, the first leg of the ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards 2019
- Malaysia: Aerodyne drone solutions provider raises $30M for global expansion, in part via 500 Startups and Gobi Partners
- Malaysia: Prepay takes aim at online shopping fraud with escrow service holding payments from buyers until items are received, and when both parties have agreed
- Malaysia: 5 business owners on what to expect from the Innovatif+ Summit & Awards in Penang from October 25-27
- Malaysia: Asia Mobiliti successfully completes pilot deployment of IoT device made for buses using 4G and eSIM
- Malaysian-Hong Kong foodtech startup, Phuture Foods, preps for launch of vegan pork meat alternative in Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond
- Singapore-Malaysia MyCash raises funding to take financial services platform for unbanked migrant workers to new Asia-Pacific markets
