Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 10 September 2020 -- The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up consumer behaviours, stifles industries and has shifted consumer prioritisation in many sectors including the wellness sector.  As most of us are readjusting to our new normal and to the altered way of life, companies are seen to be pivoting or reinventing their business model to stay afloat. Sentuh.my (Sentuh), a leading digital wellness platform that links qualified wellness, beauty and physiotherapy centres and mobile therapists to customers today announced that it is set to raise further funds via equity crowdfunding platform pitchIN. The company, which was founded in 2018 has targeted to raise RM500,000 (USD120,000).  The ECF campaign is currently Live on pitchIN.

Launched 23 months ago, Sentuh now boasts of more than 200 therapists (75% female therapists & 25% male therapists) of which a majority if not all are in the B40 group from 3 different markets - Klang Valley, Johor Bharu and Kota Kinabalu.  It was during the downtime of the 2020 Movement Control Order (MCO) that Sentuh decided upon a new journey of setting another path for their business by establishing their Sentuh Merchant App.  Affected by the pandemic situation, their idle time was what triggered the materialisation of this new aspiration.

Kuala Lumpur, 10 September 2020 – Get ready gig community! Gigworks, leading provider of online professional service engagement is dedicating 19 September as a special day for the gig (or freelance) community to celebrate and embrace the gig lifestyle – a day dedicated to all gig workers for their endless effort.

‘9.19 ’(9.19 Day or also known as Gig Day) resembling the word ‘gig’ is organised to bring awareness to the rise of the gig economy and welcoming a new way of remote working. Gig Day is open to all to participate in the hopes to bring exposure of the new working style as well as inspiring talents to ‘dream big’ without having to follow the standard 9-5 working hours.

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 SEPTEMBER 2020 – Higher spending power and a heightened preference for contactless transactions will continue to drive the exponential growth of the digital economy, according to Facebook and Bain & Company who released a follow-up to the 2019 study Riding the Digital Wave. The new study titled Digital Consumers of Tomorrow, Here Today looks into the rapid acceleration of the digital economy and how this affects the future of e-commerce in Southeast Asia.

The study surveyed approximately 16,500 digital consumers and gathered insights from interviews with about 20+ CXOs across six Southeast Asian countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Digital consumers surveyed are those who have made an online purchase in at least 2 product categories in the past 3 months.

[Online meeting, September 10, 2020] The 5G World Summit 2020 was held online recently. Huawei's 5G Telco Converged Cloud (TCC) Solution won the "Best Network Virtualization Initiative" award at the summit for its innovative virtual machine and container dual engines.

Cloudification is the foundation of the 5G network and an irreversible trend for telecom networks. With the evolution from 4G to 5G, virtual machines (VMs) and containers will co-exist in the 5G network. A unified resource pool is required to implement simple resource management and optimal resource utilization across the network. An increasing number of industry applications need to be deployed at edge sites with the large scale commercialization of 5G. Diversified computing capabilities will be widely used on the network. In order to meet strict network SLA, infrastructure reliability need to be further enhanced.