The Huawei Spark Malaysia competition has been officially announced in collaboration between Huawei Malaysia, as well as MDEC, in order to encourage innovation in key areas such as e-commerce, Fintech, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Smart Cities. The company that achieved the top spot in the aforementioned competition will be eligible for various prizes including financial support of up to USD125000 (~RM516312), a boost in business and brand awareness, mentoring, Go-To-Market support and more.

Last Friday, we got to learn about some Belanjawan 2021 plans particularly for the B40 groups and how the youth would get an RM50 eWallet credit for financial support. So over the weekend, we got an overall view of the budget in terms of digital and telecommunication. Here's the summary below.

Malaysians aged between 18 and 20 years old, will be eligible for an RM50 e-wallet credit in order to promote cashless transactions. While not much is known in regards to which exact platform will be giving out the aforementioned credit, we do know that it will most likely be platforms such as Grab, Touch ‘n Go eWallet, Boost, and potentially more.

Malaysians aged between 18 and 20 years old, will be eligible for an RM50 e-wallet credit in order to promote cashless transactions. While not much is known in regards to which exact platform will be giving out the aforementioned credit, we do know that it will most likely be platforms such as Grab, Touch ‘n Go eWallet, Boost, and potentially more.

Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul has recently announced during the tabling of Budget 2021 that 8 million individuals under the B40 classification will be eligible for an RM180 telecommunication credit, which can be used to pay bills, or even purchase a new mobile phone. But that’s not all, it seems that the government will also be providing telco companies funding of up to RM1.5 billion in order to provide affected citizens with free data.

As most Malaysians are working from home once again due to the CMCO, it seems that Celcom network got disrupted again. This isn't the first time that happened this year either, it's the third time if we recall and the Celcom subscribers are taking their frustration on the company's social page.

Nikon Malaysia has officially announced on their Facebook page, stating that they will ceasing operations in Malaysia starting from 1 January 2021. With that being said, Nikon will appoint Futuromic Photo AV Sdn. Bhd. as well as QES (Asia Pacific) Sdn. Bdh. as their official sales, after-sales service, as well as distributor in Malaysia.

Previously, we reported Opensignal's analysis of Malaysia mobile data usage during the pandemic and they seem to suggest that there's a lack of WiFi network access. The company didn't stop there as they are back with another new report about our average mobile data consumption and download speed experience during the original MCO period.

October has passed and once again, Google Malaysia has brought us some interesting search results on Google Search by Malaysians. There were a lot of top searches in various topics, from games to phones, so check them out below.

If you are subscribed to dahmakan, you should have received an email about something new happening today. Well, turns out that they have rebranded themselves to Pop Meals and the app is now available on the Apple App, Google Play and AppGallery Store. Customers may also do their orders online on the new website.