Malaysia’s tech and startup news from the first month of 2020 covers items including blockchain and 5G, e-commerce, coworking and many more. Items listed and linked below are drawn from online media coverage, primarily reported in English, not Bahasa Melayu.
Malaysia’s technology news coverage can also be read online in monthly startup news collections and quarterly news round-ups.
- Malaysia: Cobnb takes Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Startup Of The Year award with property leasing and short-term management solution
- Malaysia: Central bank to issue up to 5 licences to online banks offering conventional or Islamic banking under proposed licensing framework
- Malaysia: An intro to LuxTag, blockchain-backed anti-counterfeiting startup working in verifiable authenticity for tangible items
- Malaysia: 9 entrepreneur-focused podcasts for startup founders and enthusiasts
- Malaysia: A brief intro to Iconik, coworking space in Kuala Lumpur’s Klang Valley
- Malaysia: Startup Breakfast Club presents 2020 Landscape event – MaGIC CEO and Digi Digital Chief Officer on what to expect from the startup world this year
- Malaysia: StarHub, U Mobile and China’s Huawei test 5G-driven holographic calls between Singapore and Malaysia
- A brief intro to the 13 SEA category-winning startups from the recent ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards 2019
- China’s TikTok partners Malaysia’s Iflix to bring short video content to streaming video-on-demand service across Asia
- Google partners Malaysia’s AirAsia for AirAsia Google Cloud Academy to offer accredited courses including digital marketing and software engineering
- Malaysia: Epost startup providing end-to-end e-commerce and logistics services secures $700K seed funding
- Malaysia: An intro to JomRun, rewards-based fitness tracking app and platform
- Malaysia: TM ONE, arm of Telekom Malaysia, signs MoC with South Korea’s FNS Value Co around Blockchain Secure Authentication products across ASEAN
- Malaysia: A look at Appsaya, platform focused on business-matching for better networking at B2B events
- Philippines: The 5 startups selected from November’s Youth Social Innovation Lab to represent the country at Youth Co:Lab Regional Summit in Malaysia in April 2020
