Author: Digital News Asia

Astro accelerates digital, business transformation with Amazon Web Services
The company is incorporating a cloud and mobile-first, analytics driven approach to accelerate innovation in pursuit of new personalised experiences for customers across all ages.
Cyersecurity Malaysia, Vads set up cybersecurity marketplace
The partnership will work by enhancing and creating awareness on capacity-building on cyber security across all market segments to strengthen the nation’s efforts in deflecting cyber threats.
NEC appoints new director general for Vietnam ops
Kiichi Tamida will replace Keita Ito at NEC Vietnam, while Ito will be moving to NEC Networks and System Integration Corp Tamida began his career with NEC in 1988, has over 25 years of overseas sales experience
Emtek Group, Ant Financial in partnership through payment joint venture
Leveraging on their technology and local market insight for more accessibility to digital financial services in Indonesia.
Axiata Digital invests US$16.8 mil into Swedish insurtech, BIMA
Axiata Digital makes its 29th investment with a US$16.8mil injection into Swedish based insurtech player, BIMA.
GE, SP Group, SPRING Singapore, Platform E to build digital industrial ecosystem in Singapore
They will develop IIOT capabilities and intelligent applications to enhance power network reliability and efficiency in the island state.
Innovix Distribution launches cloud platform for its partners
Innovix Cloud is a platform that helps resellers and partners to operate more efficiently and expand their business In Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), the cloud services market is expected to grow by 23.6% over the next three years
Global VC deal volume drops for the fourth straight quarter: KPMG
Only 2,716 deals completed globally in Q1 2017 compared to 3,201 in Q4 2016.
Grab, MDEC, World Bank Group Launch OpenTraffic platform to combat local traffic woes
Government agencies to leverage on smart data platform from Grab’s GPS data to enable analysis of travel speeds and journey times.
Cloudera, Red Hat, Microsoft collaborate to cultivate data professionals in Malaysia
Companies collaborate with Malaysian IT training provider, Iverson Associates, to upskill workforce with various levels of data science courses and certifications.
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