In the first part of the six-part year-end Enterprise Biz Bytes special, we throw it back to “Is Having Too Many Choices A Bad Thing?” in our show on the consumer trends of 2019.

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Malaysia’s political will to fight corruption to the core has started to bear fruit, says the nation’s former anti-graft chief Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed.

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It’s International Anti-Corruption Day, and to get the ball rolling we revisit a story that first surface a year ago, when the deputy PM Wan Azizah announced at an anti-corruption forum that corruption in Malaysia last year cost the country RM47 billion (US$11.2 billion) – about 4 per cent of the county’s gross domestic product and nearly double what it spent on healthcare for the entire nation.

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Among many other things, charity, too, has evolved. With the app Momentum, users can connect their bank accounts to the app and automate donations to the causes they care about. The app aims to turn ordinary moments into opportunities for meaningful change. 

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The adoption of e-wallets and cashless payments has been relatively fast in Malaysia, with most stores now offering the new-ish mode of payment to customers. But what about the stall level merchants who see plenty of transactions daily? Ramly Group recently announced that they will offer e-wallet payments at all their official marts and kiosks, which makes us wonder how this will affect adoption on a whole new level. 

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We procrastinate. We get distracted. A San Francisco startup wants to help us all by coaching its clients through their to-do lists.

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Singapore is running trails of its “contactless clearance” lanes in Changi’s T4 terminal, thereby making the customs process smoother for travelers. While the trial isn’t for all citizens just yet, it is a very promising step towards a more comfortable trip.

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The year is coming to an end and Google has released its Top GIF Search Trends of 2019. What’s interesting is how our method of communication has changed over the year and interestingly, the top 10 GIF’s were mostly dominated by one common feeling. We discuss how we’ve felt in 2019 through GIFs.

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Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After nine years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids from the problems with social media. It will now ask new users to input their birth date and bar users younger than 13 from joining. However, it won’t be asking existing users their age, so Instagram will turn a blind eye to any underage kids already amongst its 1 billion members.

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Match Group, the largest dating app conglomerate in the US, doesn’t perform background checks on any of its apps’ free users. A ProPublica report today highlights a few incidents in which registered sex offenders went on dates with women who had no idea they were talking to a convicted criminal. Why can’t these apps verify their users?

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