RM100 mln digitalisation grants for SMEs

KUALA LUMPUR: The government is allocating RM100 million under the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) grant scheme to support business automation and digitalisation activities. Prime Minister and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said businesses should quickly adopt digital technology to widen the market for their products and services. “Matching grants of up to RM5,000 […]

Abang Johari receives courtesy call from SME Corp

KUCHING: Sarawak Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg received a courtesy call from the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Corporation Malaysia at his office yesterday. The courtesy call led by the SME Corporation’s Sarawak Director, Faiz R Sutarji was to update the Premier on the performance of the agencies under the Ministry […]

Micro and informal enterprises badly hit by MCO for not having enough savings

PUTRAJAYA: Micro and informal enterprises were severely affected by the Covid-19-induced movement control order (MCO) because their products and services are in the non-essential sector and they lack savings and strong cash flow, said Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi. He said these were the findings of an online […]

Malaysian enterprises keen to adopt hybrid cloud services

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian business owners and enterprises are keen towards adopting hybrid cloud services, with 97 per cent of Malaysian respondents in a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey identifying it as the ideal operating model. Nutanix Malaysia country manager Avinash Gowda said the global pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption among enterprises with 88 per […]