The full statement from SAMENTA national president Datuk William Ng, regarding Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's scheduled meeting with p-hailing companies tomorrow (8 Aug)
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Transport Minister Anthony Loke are scheduled to meet p-hailing industry players on Tuesday.
The primary agenda is to find...
By David Lenz, vice president, Asia Pacific at Arcserve
Cyber threats continue to evolve and pose significant risks to businesses of all sizes across all industries. The consequences of a cyberattack can be devastating, ranging from financial loss to reputational damage to legal liabilities.
But SMEs can defend themselves if...
OPINION
I've been grappling for a long time what it means to be a unicorn.
Or to have unicorns among us.
That seems to be an obsession among entrepreneurs, especially within the startup community. Unfortunately the obsession has also spread to our policymakers - many of whom have never run any business...
Out of 49 Asian cities in this year’s survey, the city of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan ranked 226th, is the least expensive place in Asia for international employees to live in
Asia dominated the world’s most expensive city rankings, with Hong Kong SAR taking top spot as the costliest place for...
A statement by Dr Ong Kian Ming, Member of Parliament of Bangi, regarding the Prime Minister’s announcement on minimum wage on 19 March 2022.
The announcement by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob that the minimum wage would be increased to RM1500/month starting on the 1st of May...
By Aparna Dhinakaran
Today, nearly any company – even enterprises with large teams of sophisticated data scientists and engineers – can be brought to heel by machine learning (ML) models that fail spectacularly in the real world. Whether it’s demand forecasting models upended by Covid economics or models that power HR...
By Datuk William Ng, on behalf of the Small and Medium Enterprises Association (SAMENTA)
27 June is World SME Day. In Malaysia, 26 June to 4 July is SME Week. In conjunction with both occasions, SAMENTA outlines our hopes and aspirations for the SME sector, which comprises 98.5 percent of...
It is encouraging to note that Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz is committed to continue helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) along their recovery path by accelerating the adoption of digitalisation under the upcoming Budget 2021.
Many fiscal efforts have been put in place prior to...
Article by Taylor Armerding, Senior Software Security Expert, at Synopsys Software Integrity Group
The future of connected devices – some things about that future are pretty easy to predict.
There will be more devices — billions more. As some experts started saying several years ago, the Internet of Things (IoT) is...
By Lim Kee Yeong
“Thank you, please come again.” A courtesy in business commonly expressed upon completing a sale. This is undoubtedly a satisfying moment to any entrepreneur; what comes next is to search for or serve another customer and the process repeats itself. Depending on the nature of business...
We love our food. Whether its nasi lemak, chicken rice, char koay teow, or roti canai, food is a unifying factor for all of us.
But have we paused to consider where all that food comes from? The eggs in your nasi lemak, the rice that we eat - how...
By Derek Handova, Senior Technical Writer at Synopsys Software Integrity Group
An application security vulnerability is “a hole or a weakness in the application, which can be a design flaw or an implementation bug, that allows an attacker to cause harm to the stakeholders of an application,” according to OWASP. These...
