Online marketing in Malaysia takes a giant leap forward with the listing of Innity Corp on Mesdaq come June 23rd. According to its chairman, the local online advertising market is expected to grow from RM32 mil in 2007 (pathetic compared to the RM5.5 bil total ad spend) to RM270 mil (i.e. 52% CAGR) by 2012.
PM Badawi announced yesterday that petrol will be increased from RM1.92 to RM2.70 at midnight, while household electricity will increase by 19% in July. As if life wasn’t already exciting enough, he made the announcement in the afternoon knowing full well that people will rush to the pumps. As a result, the entire town (and probably Malaysia) went into a stand-still because of the panic buying - the photo below was taken an hour after the announcement.
Read the papers today and there was someone having the same problem I had - cannot send emails using Streamyx. So I’m doing a good deed here explaining why and how to solve the problem since the people at Streamyx are not doing their job.
The last two weeks have been pretty hectic. I was in Singapore, Malacca and now KL, doing 16 meetings in between. Besides clients, I also touched base with a couple of industry players that are important for my plans.
