News & Reviews:   Axiata Group Berhad

Over the weekend, the Board of Directors of Digi.Com Berhad and Axiata Group Berhad announced the companies' shareholders had approved the proposed merger of Digi and Celcom's operations at its Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). A formal filing on the outcome of the EGM will be made to Bursa Malaysia once the market reopens in the coming week.

So here's some breaking news, Digi's shares are apparently put on hold in the morning as Telenor Group went into a discussion with Axiata Group Berhad to combine their telecom and infrastructure assets in Asia. After several hours of waiting for the official news, it has been confirmed that both Telenor and Axiata have agreed to merge their business together.

Welcome back to another weekly NewsBytes segment where we bring you the latest tech news from the edge (at least for us). So how was your 11.11 shopping spree? You might have spent quite a sum but don't feel guilty about it - our TechNave team also did the same becase this year's 11.11 sale was really good and I bought some items that I don't even need like a ninja flu mask, but it's too cool and cheap to ignore it. Thanks to my and the many Malaysians contribution to 11.11, Huawei Online Store did great, so did Lazada, Shopee,  honor Malaysia and 11street too which you can read below after this introduction.

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