There’s a quiet shift happening behind the familiar green cartons of Yeo Hiap Seng — one that says as much about modern marketing as it does about manufacturing economics. The heritage beverage brand has laid off 25 employees at its Senoko, Singapore facility, consolidating its can production in Malaysia as
When a company the size of Unilever presses the freeze button, the ripple is rarely contained to its own corridors. The Dove and Lifebuoy maker has imposed a global hiring freeze “at all levels” for at least three months, citing mounting geopolitical pressures tied to the escalating conflict in the
By the time the doors opened at The Exchange TRX, the campaign story had already written itself. Not in a press release. Not on a media plan. But in a queue. A long, snaking, slightly impatient, very Instagrammable queue. Because when Bobby’s Burgers landed in Kuala Lumpur last week, it
Five years and an estimated US$80 billion investment, Meta is stepping back from one of its boldest bets: Horizon Worlds. The company has confirmed the platform will be removed from the Quest Store by March 31, with a full shutdown set for June 15. A limited mobile version will remain.
For a brief moment, it looked like the future of filmmaking had arrived in a text box. Type a prompt. Get a scene. Add a tweak. Roll credits. Then, just as quickly, it’s over. Sora — the much-hyped AI video tool from OpenAI — is being shut down less than
The curtain has finally fallen on MBO Cinemas and this time, there will be no encore. After years of stops, starts, and attempted comebacks, the once-familiar name in Malaysia’s cinema landscape has announced it is ceasing operations permanently. The tone of its farewell was tellingly simple: “The show is over.”
There was a time when the internet had clear landlords. Google owned search. Meta owned social. Amazon owned commerce. Then along came ByteDance and quietly ignored the map. Today, it isn’t just competing with these giants. It is dissolving the categories they built. The Algorithm That Ate Everything ByteDance’s rise
For years, the marketing industry has celebrated engagement like it was oxygen. More time spent, more scrolls, more dopamine loops—metrics that agencies proudly put on slides and brands chased with increasing urgency. Now, a jury in Los Angeles has quietly but decisively reframed that narrative. In a landmark ruling, Meta,
There are acquisitions that signal scale. And then there are acquisitions that signal intent. Foodie Media’s purchase of an 80% stake in WTM Media for RM250,000 falls squarely into the latter. On paper, it’s a modest deal. In practice, it’s a sharp pivot into a cultural space that many brands
Heineken’s decision to wind down its Singapore brewing operations by 2027, and shift production to Malaysia and Vietnam, looks at first glance, like a supply chain tweak. In reality, it’s a signal of where growth, margin, and marketing muscle are increasingly converging in ASEAN. And, quietly, it puts Malaysia in
