Advanced SEO Bootcamp will be held to guide you how to increase website traffic
The leading hosting provider, Exabytes and the leading search engine optimization (SEO) service provider, Nexus Mediacorp are co-organizing an Advanced SEO Bootcamp – “How to Optimize Your Website via Organic Traffic” on 6 October 2012 that helps people to refine their website SEO, assists them to draft their Strategic Digital Road Map and guide them to map out own company’s wide Digital Marketing Framework. The...
Singapore StarHub launched e-payment via NFC technology
Singapore’s fully-integrated info-communication company, StarHub has become the first Telco in Singapore to launch Near Field Communication (NFC) digital wallet, namely “SmartWallet”. The SmartWallet allows StarHub’s mobile customers to enjoy the convenience of using three contactless payment cards on an NFC enabled smartphone – DBS One.Tap, NFC ez-link purse and NFC FEVO Pre-paid MasterCard. SmartWallet will offer users a...
More secure with Visa’s new encryption service
Visa Inc. has launched Visa Merchant Data Secure with Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE), a new service helps acquirers and their merchants protect payment card data. Visa is currently working with acquirers, processors and payment technology vendors to provide specifications for integrating Visa’s solution into payment terminals as well as into all critical system across the payment processing industry. This new service seems only...
Apply credit card via mobile phone
Maybank Singapore is going to launch a streamlined credit card application process on the mobile banking platform, namely “eConcierge” which enable its customers to apply a credit card from Maybank Singapore in a convenient and hassle-free manner, without the need for the applicants to visit a bank branch or snail mail any documents. “eConcierge” is a phone app with an in-built scanner function which used to scan the required document...
Airlines and Travel Payments Summit Asia-Pacific 2012 held in Kuala Lumpur
Airline and Travel Payments Summit (ATPS) Asia-Pacific 2012 will be held in Crowne Plaza Mutiara Kuala Lumpur Hotel from 18 Sep until 19 Sep 2012. ATPS 2012 is the venue for discussing & developing best practices for airline & travel payment acceptance and fraud prevention in the Asia-Pacific region. The participating companies are Air Asia, Bangkok Airways, Visa, PayPal, Japan Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Garuda Indonesia,...
Lazada eyeing to become no. 1 online shopping site in Philippines
Lazada Philippines (www.lazada.com.ph), the another online business ventured by Germany-based Rocket Internet GmbH in Philippines wants to become the top online shopping site in the Philippines by end of this year, according to Mattia Perroni, one of the five managing directors of Lazada Philippines. Perroni said that Lazada Philippines was started in January with only three persons but now has increased the head count to 260. It also...
Top fashion doll Monster High enters Malaysia
According to MATTEL Southeast Asia Pte Ltd, Monster High which was launched in 2010 and is one of the top fashion doll brands over 30 countries will be sold in all major shopping malls in the country next month. The toys also will be promoted through online channel and are prices between RM79.90 and RM99.90. For more information about Monster High toys, visit...
Maybank offers mobile banking in Singapore
Maybank Singapore has launched its mobile banking service for iPhone users to bank on the go, to cater for a shift in consumer activity to mobile devices. “Through the new app, we aim to enrich our customer’s experience with us, underscoring our vision to humanize financial services across Asia and commitment to address customers’ evolving mobile lifestyle needs. The dynamic features in this mobile app allow us to continue to engage...
Singapore’s Luxola.com eyeing expansion into Asia
Singapore based e-commerce site, Luxola.com is aiming to become the premier online cosmetic and skin care store in Asia after it has raised fund of USD 590,000 (or about MYR 1.8 million) from Wavemaker Labs, a Singapore based investment firm and the National Research Foundation (NRF). Luxola was kicked start by its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alexis Horowitz-Burdick in September 2011 after he raised USD 400,000 (or about MYR...
More NFC phones coming into market
Forester Research reports that the number of NFC-enabled mobile devices will be around 100 million to be shipped worldwide. This number show the potential of using NFC as one tools of e-payment in encouraging cashless transaction in the society. NFC or Near Field Communication is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close...
