[This is a sponsored article with MaGIC.] Last week, 39 startups emerged from their eye-opening 3-month journey through the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC)’s Global Accelerator Programme (GAP). But unlike previous GAP cohorts, this year’s programme was completely virtual and its main focus was to build and equip …
Read More »Outward’s freedom and challenge helped the RPG sell over 1 million copies
Get the most out of your game’s subscription plans Best practices for designing and managing your subscription strategy Access guide here Outward is not a mainstream role-playing game. Its world embraces brutal difficulty, to the point in which just carrying a basic set of armor, a weapon, and the gear …
Read More »$1,944 for a Coronavirus Test? How Readers Helped Us Spot an Unusual Trend
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. For the last few months, I’ve started my mornings with the same routine: reviewing New York Times readers’ medical bills over coffee. The documents are part of a project I …
Read More »Acupuncture Helped People With Back Pain Walk and Bend Better
A double-blinded randomized trial of electroacupuncture found it may result in a modest improvement in daily functioning for those with chronic back pain, though it provided little pain relief. Electroacupuncture uses a small electric current passed between needles, a practice some believe provides additional pain relief compared with regular acupuncture. …
Read More »How Tweeting His Credit Card Details Helped This M’sian Validate His Fintech Startup
Author’s Blurb: Loaning money to my colleagues happens very often for me. After lunch, I would pay the bill first and trust that they’ll pay me back eventually. I tend to accept my payments back in what I call “pre-paid meals” where they basically just cover my bill the next …
Read More »How an Ill-Fated Fishing Voyage Helped Us Understand Covid-19
American Dynasty, a commercial trawler, departed Seattle one day in May to fish for hake off the Washington coast. Before leaving, its 122 crew members were screened for the coronavirus using the highly accurate polymerase chain reaction (P.C.R.) method, and all the results came back negative. But because those tests …
Read More »This 15-Year-Old M’sian Company Thrived During MCO, And Here’s The Solution That Helped
[This is a paid article with HSBC.] It’s disheartening to see companies folding from the effects of COVID-19. But, essential companies have been thriving because their services are still needed more than ever. Saluran Pasifik, one of the leading oil and gas equipment suppliers in Malaysia, had their own fights …
Read More »From Finance To Grilled Fish Restaurant: How 4 Friends Helped Spark The Mala Trend In S’pore
By now, you can find mala grilled fish at literally almost any coffee shop in Singapore. You might also recall watching mouthwatering grilled fish advertisements playing on SMRT trains. Contrary to popular belief, Tan Yu, the erstwhile owner of these advertisements, is not the first to start the grilled fish …
Read More »They Helped Clients To RM8 Mil Of Revenue In 2019, Now They’re Eyeing RM3 Mil Of Their Own
Malaysia has an estimated e-commerce market value of USD4 billion. Doesn’t sound too shabby, until you expand the borders to include SEA and you’re now looking at a USD100 billion market. If you’re a business owner with some measure of ambition, you’d want a slice of that. But getting your …
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