News & Reviews:   business

Not long ago, we saw the news report saying that the upcoming iPhone 13 will be more expensive due to TSMC raising its chip prices amid supply shortages. Now, it looks like the chip shortage that has happened since early in the pandemic would continue to haunt affected businesses until 2023.

It is undeniable that the competition in the smartphone industry is getting fiercer day by day. With new technologies continuously being discovered, smartphone manufacturers are having a hard time catching up to stay on top. Now, it looks like a company might be dropping out of the game and it appears to be LG.

Microsoft has officially announced that the Surface Pro 7+ is officially available in Malaysia starting from the price of RM4115. The products will be available for purchase in Malaysia via Surface Commercial Authorized Resellers.

Due to the fact that Shopee is considered e-commerce which falls under the retail category, Shopee will continue business as normal during the Restricted Movement Order which is happening from 18 March until 31 March 2020. With that said, you could easily get more than 10000 types of products from more than 7 partner retailers such as Mydin, Tesco, Nestle, Aeon Big, Vinda and more.

Covid-19 is here to haunt us in 2020. Just today, Italy has come to a decision of locking down the country as 9,000 and more people have been diagnosed with the virus. Not only Italy, but the cases in our country have also been increasing recently. Now, Google is trying to do something to help out the situation, as it is calling businesses to update their status on Google Maps to let the public know if they are affected.

Huawei recently announced that they will be hosting the Consumer Business Product and Strategy Virtual Launch in Barcelona, Spain at exactly 9PM on 24 February 2020. The virtual launch will highlight Huawei’s various technologies and innovations they’ve been working on, which you can watch live on their Facebook page or their Youtube channel.

Aimed towards SME businesses across Malaysia, Omni by Digi is a virtual phone system which turns any smartphone into a call center. For as low as RM60 per month without contract, Omni also comes with a fixed line prefix which allows means that there is no need to share an individual’s contact info for business purposes. The benefit to this is that staffs are able to protect their privacy by not sharing their own personal phone numbers. Not only that, this alleviate the need to purchase another phone line to be used specifically for business.

If you are looking for an alternative business fibre plan, check out Maxis. They just updated their plans to offer users 64Mbps and 100Mbps plans. It comes with both Dynamic IP and Fixed IP, for a 24 month contract and limited to Maxis Business Fibre coverage area.