News & Reviews:   local

Today, Ninja Van Malaysia announces it is expanding its logistics capabilities beyond last-mile delivery as local businesses increasingly prioritise reliability and integrated logistics solutions. The company is broadening its services to support both business-to-consumer and business-to-business needs, with new and expanded offerings that include cold chain logistics, freight solutions, and an enhanced Ninja B2B Restock service.

Today, Google announced a major change to the way it delivers local search results. The company will phase out the use of country-specific domains like google.com.my, google.ng, google.com.br and others in favour of a more streamlined, global approach.

When it comes to buying games from ActiVision Blizzard, most Malaysian gamers would just resort to Steam due to the quarterly sales or sail out to the seven seas (IYKYK). To resolve this, the company has just announced that players will be able to buy their favourite games on Battle.net in their local currency instead of USD. 

Starting from 1 April until 14 April 2020, Grab has announced that all small restaurants and hawker stalls are to receive rebates for every GrabFood offer. Not only that, but Grab also aims to generate more visibility towards the restaurants mentioned via the ‘Local Heroes’ Campaign as well.

OPPO has officially announced that Malaysian local actor and model, Ben Amir will be making an appearance during the OPPO Reno Festive Night Run on 21 December 2019. If you are keen on meeting Ben Amir in person, be sure to sign up for the aforementioned night run by purchasing your own ticket from the price of RM50 onwards.

In conjunction with the upcoming 10.10 Brands Festival, Shopee in partnership with the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs aims to encourage fellow Malaysians to support local products. What Shopee has done was to create a dedicated section, called “Buy Malaysian” on their official website as well as on the Shopee app to showcase various Malaysian products.

With the month of Ramadan coming to an end, Waze has graciously released a few predictions as to how the “Balik Kampung” traffic will pan out for the year of 2019 as to help fellow road warriors stay safe on their ride back.

Good news for all future TM UniFi customer, as Telekom Malaysia will be offering an expedited installation service to have the UniFi service and equipment installed within 24 hours. While the expedited service is free for now, customers who register after 31 March 2019 will need to pay an RM200 fee for it. This is due to a recent update on UniFi’s FAQ document, which is found on their official website.