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Digital News Roundup - 15th February 2018

Karamjit Singh | Chong Jinn Xiung | Anushia Kandasivam

15-Feb-18 10:00

Digital News Roundup - 15th February 2018

The team from Digital News Asia talked about Grub Cycle's mission to reduce food wastage, BookDoc focusing on strategic partnerships for growth and Malaysia on track to achieve 21% e-commerce growth. Also, the team also discussed on machine learning driving Grab’s open traffic initiative, putting the fun back into maths with zapzapmath and Exabytes Acquires Iconz-Webvisions.

 

0:44 - EasyParcel Guns For More Growth In The Region

4:29 - Grub Cycle On A Mission To Reduce Food Wastage

8:29 - GoWork And Rework Merge To Become Go-Rework

12:45 - Warung Pintar Raises US$4 Million Seed Round

15:35 - BookDoc Focuses On Strategic Partnerships For Growth

21:22 - PIKOM Inks MoUs With 5 Associations For SMEs To Adopt E-Commerce

26:57 - Malaysian On Track To Achieve 21% E-Commerce Growth By 2020

27:45 - Putting The Fun Back Into Maths With Zapzapmath

32:50 - Exabytes Acquires Iconz-Webvisions

35:48 - Machine Learning Drives Grab’s Open Traffic Initiative

39:48 - Focus On Strengthening Software Testing Ecosystem

Produced by: Jeff Sandhu


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