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TechWire Asia @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 10/28/2025 11:44 EDT

Shadow AI: The insider threat lurking in Malaysian companies

By Aaron Bugal, Field CISO, APJ, Sophos AI is fast becoming the new productivity engine in Malaysia’s corporate landscape. From copilots that summarise reports to chatbots that draft emails, employees are discovering clever ways to work faster and smarter. But in the rush to embrace innovation, a new blind spot has emerged: shadow AI. Shadow ... Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/08/2022 00:30 EDT

The path to zero trust starts with Identity — here’s why

SailPoint Asia Pacific’s senior VP Chern-Yue Boey discussed with Tech Wire Asia on the tenets of zero trust and insights on the security & operational challenges associated with non-human identities in the workforce. Identities, representing people, services, or IoT devices, are the common denominator across today’s many networks, endpoints, and applications. In a network that... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/08/2022 00:00 EDT

Seizing new economic opportunities challenges business leaders

In the post-pandemic landscape, 71% of business leaders feel better prepared to make swift judgments More than half of executives surveyed emphasized the growing significance of leadership teams in the adoption of technology The effects of COVID-19 forced societal transformations on a global scale. These adoptions were further accelerated by the new coronavirus’s spread and... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia 3 place · 09/07/2022 20:30 EDT

Here’s how Amazon is keeping its employees satisfied in APAC

One of the biggest challenges organizations in all industries are facing today is keeping their employees happy and satisfied with their work. While there have been reports of layoffs in some industries, the reality is, that a large chunk of employees is also leaving their roles, in search of better prospects in other companies or... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/07/2022 20:00 EDT

TikTok: A platform too big for hackers to ignore — but are users’ data safe?

Experts had uncovered a serious TikTok vulnerability that could have exposed users to a 1-click account takeover exploit. TikTok also denied a breach which a threat actor claimed to have stolen 2 billion users’ data. Viral video-sharing app TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, is commonly known as the most downloaded app worldwide. As of mid... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/07/2022 19:30 EDT

Akulaku PayLater: First BNPL in Southeast Asia to partner with China’s Alipay+

The partnership will allow Indonesian consumers to use the Akulaku PayLater solution for global merchants on Alipay+. Akulaku reckon the partnership is a timely solution to meeting the increased demand from Indonesian consumers for online shopping. Alibaba-owned payments app Alipay+ has included Indonesian Akulaku’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution among its supported digital payment... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/07/2022 19:00 EDT

Agritech: Agriculture reaches for the sky to get its world’s first purpose-built industry cloud

Cropin Cloud seeks to enhance the ways in which technology can address important global issues like food security, climate-resilient agriculture, and minimizing the environmental impact of agriculture Cropin Cloud combines worldwide field-tested technology and intelligent solutions to help agribusinesses in managing risk and finding solutions for predictable growth Most developing economies rely heavily on agriculture... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/07/2022 00:30 EDT

Meta & Bain: Southeast Asia leads in the adoption of fintech, web3

Southeast Asia is largely ahead of the pack in the adoption of fintech and web3, including metaverse-related tools, Meta and Bain & Company’s annual SYNC SEA report shows. Southeast Asia sees a higher level of penetration of e-Wallets, cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), compared to most other markets including China, the US, the EU and... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/07/2022 00:00 EDT

KPMG: Global fintech investments fall in first half of 2022

Global fintech investments in the first half of 2022 showed global investment in fintech dropped from US$111.2 billion across 3,372 deals in the second half of 2021 to US$107.8 billion across 2,980 deals in the first half of 2022.  In Singapore, the payments sector saw the most fintech investments while crypto investments dropped more than... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia 2 place · 09/06/2022 21:38 EDT

A lifeline for enterprises still relying on Java SE 6 and 7

When Oracle announced that Java SE 6 and 7 will no longer be supported beyond July 2022, many organizations still relying on it were concerned about how they were going to continue using it. In fact, Jave SE 7 has been around for 11 years and has gone through numerous fixes, security, and other critical... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia 2 place · 09/06/2022 20:00 EDT

Whether you use Android or iOS, no one is 100% secured

Anubis mobile banking trojan was discovered by one in ten (10.48%) unique Kaspersky users globally Roaming Mantis is known for attacking Android devices, but recently they showed interest in iOS users Mobile banking has brought about a fundamental shift in banking that has never been seen before. Globally, millions of people now use banking on... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia 3 place · 09/06/2022 19:30 EDT

What are the five key trends for the continued surge in time spent on mobile devices?

The rapid adoption of digital technology shows no signs of slowing down; three out of four respondents (Thais in particular) anticipate a rise in mobile usage Gen Z and Millennials worry that they overuse technology and don’t have the necessary skills to keep up with the speed of technological change Following a pandemic-induced stimulant to... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/06/2022 19:00 EDT

VMware partners public cloud providers to ease multi-cloud complexities

At VMware Explore 2022, VMware announced several partnerships with major tech companies to boost their capabilities for their customers. These innovations are expected to bring more value for companies as VMware hopes to simplify the processes that have been challenging most businesses, especially in their cloud journey. VMware currently works with all the global major... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/06/2022 00:43 EDT

Lazada is jumping on the Buy Now Pay Later bandwagon ‘very soon’

Lazada Malaysia CEO Alan Chan said the Alibaba-backed e-commerce platform does have plans to include Buy Now Pay Later for its Malaysian operations and “it will be launched very soon”. Lazada is focusing on bringing the best partners when it comes to BNPL financial services on their platform. As with every technological advancement over the... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/06/2022 00:00 EDT

Another digital bank props up in Indonesia, this time by Bukalapak

BukaTabungan, the first digital banking service from Bukalapak in partnership with Standard Chartered, will provide digital banking access to Bukalapak’s ecosystem of more than 110 million users and 20 million business owners. The digital banking service combines the reach of Bukalapak’s all-commerce platform and the technology of Standard Chartered’s Banking-as-a-Service solution. Indonesia has seen many... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 09/05/2022 20:00 EDT

AMD Singapore expands its R&D footprint toward driving next-generation HPC products and capabilities

AMD will invest more than US$50M to expand and upskill the workforce and upgrade capabilities over the next 3 years The expanded team will focus on HPC tasks such as creating hardware and products, analyzing devices, performing data science, and researching artificial intelligence (AI) Research and development (R&D) spending has increased significantly worldwide, both publicly... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia 2 place · 09/05/2022 20:00 EDT

DNB needs to stop getting bullied and be serious about 5G deployment

When 5G deployment kicked off in Malaysia, only two telco companies initially started the ball rolling. And out of those two, only one YES by YTL Communications has launched 5G network services for the public. All other major mobile network operators (MNOs) in the country were not so keen on the idea of the government... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia 3 place · 09/05/2022 19:45 EDT

Validating battery swapping as the next-generation smart mobility in Singapore

With its battery-as-a-service platform, Gogoro is allowing new business models that permit fleets of vehicles to adopt sustainable transportation that is safe, reliable, scalable, and always available The Gogoro Sandbox supports Singapore’s Green Plan 2030 and its objective of using only sustainable sources for all of its transportation and energy needs Modern times have seen... Read more » Read more

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Correspondents @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/05/2022 19:15 EDT

Credit Clear and Sisense experts unveil how data drives growth across APAC

When it comes to business transformation, both data and analytics are having a profound effect on innovation across the APAC region. With the recent release of Sisense’s Future of Data Analytics Report 2022 – Asia Pacific Edition, which surveyed more than 1,000 APAC data professionals, Rohan Persaud, Director of Channels and Alliances APAC at Sisense... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/05/2022 04:52 EDT

NTT to build its sixth data center in Malaysia

As the Malaysian data center market continues to experience positive growth, NTT has announced plans to build its sixth data center in Cyberjaya. With an investment cost of over US$50 million, the new data center will be known as Cyberjaya 6 (CBJ6). CBJ6 will complement CBJ5, which opened in 2021 and covers just under 20... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/05/2022 00:30 EDT

India to pilot ‘parallel testing’ to speed up safety approvals for the likes of Apple, Samsung

In India, lengthy safety approval times have been hobbling its tech industry, delaying product launches by Apple, Samsung and even Xiaomi. Now the country plans to speed up testing and safety approvals of electronic devices to reduce their time to market. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) held a meeting with officials of India’s technology... Read more » Read more

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