Malaysia collaborates with US in combating cyber crime and money laundering
CYBERJAYA: Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein represents the country to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United States of America (US) on Assistance in the Field of Transnational Crime. Hishammuddin said that the MoU allows both countries’ enforcement agencies can collaborate closely and provide support to each other in combating money laundering, terrorism financing, trafficking in persons,...
E-payment via NFC available in Malaysia in 2 months’ time
KUALA LUMPUR: Prepaid e-payment card provider, Touch ‘n Go Sdn Bhd (TNGSB) will enable its customers to use their smartphone as Touch & Go card via near field communication (NFC) technology in two months’ time. NFC 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 proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres. Present...
Malaysia’s first Virtual Property Showroom by iProperty
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s top property portal, iProperty.com has launched an application for iPad namely iShowGallery that enables the users have a property walk-through experience without having to physically visit a site. Through the Malaysia’s 1st digital property showroom iShowGallery, the investors can view each property advertised in high-definition (HD), panoramic 360 degree views and actionable 3D. They just need go to...
OSK offers online trading platform via OSK188
KUALA LUMPUR: OSK Investment Bank Berhad (OSK) has rolled out online trading platform for Bursa Malaysia, SGX, HKEx, AMEX, NYSE and NASDAQ at www.osk188.com (OSK188). All the financial information, unbiased analyst research, precise and up-to-date market data for making the right investment choices is a click away on OSK188 stock trading platform. The online trading platform helps OSK to target new generation traders which is more...
Malaysia’s no. 1 property portal penetrates into Penang market
KUALA LUMPUR: With the new office setup in Bayan Lepas, Penang, iProperty.com the Malaysia’s top property portal helps the iProperty Group to participate in the growth of Penang market while providing real estate agents and developers I the northern region of the country. According to chief executive officer of the iProperty Group Shaun Di Gregorio, Penang experience experiencing rapid economic growth and the opening of the new branch...
More than 450,000 Yahoo members’ details exposed by Hacker
KUALA LUMPUR: A hacking group namely D33Ds Company has hacked Yahoo backend database last Wednesday. This breach caused nearly 453,000 Yahoo members’ email address and password posted online in plain text format publicly. “We confirm that an older file from Yahoo Contributor Network … containing approximately 450,000 Yahoo and other company users’ names and passwords was compromised yesterday,” Yahoo said in a...
Digistar runs group buying website
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia public listed company, Digistar now also in online group buying business and to compete with Groupon Malaysia, Living Social Malaysia and MyDeal via its group buying website www.jvbuyer.com.my. According to Digistar Executive Director Ong Fee Chong, the company spent six months to prepare the website and the result was not good in the first three month after launching. Due to effort contributed by the team, they...
Credit Card, common payment method for Malaysian
KUALA LUMPUR: The recent Nielsen survey, Global Survey of Investment Attitudes revealed that 39 per cent of Malaysian online consumers use credit card as their common payment method for daily activities. Besides, the study also shows 92 per cent of Malaysian consumer uses cash while debit card users only 35 per cent. The survey also reported that close to half of Malaysian credit card users repay all their credit card spending in full...
Citibank Malaysia encourages online bill payment
KUALA LUMPUR: Citibank Malaysia is a running a “RM50 cash back” promotion from now until end of September 2012, to encourage the consumers to use Citibank Online to pay their bills. The users just need to make 3 online bill payments with different biller every month for 3 consecutive months through Citibank Online, the bank will rebate RM50 cash to the eligible participants. With Citibank Online, the users can make bill payments...
13.7 per cent Malaysian taxpayers pay online
KUALA LUMPUR: Azizol Ahmad of the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) revealed that still not many people use e-payment services to pay their taxes in the country. “Although the taxpayers paid online has been increased to 13.7 per cent compared with only 1.57 per cent last year, but the result still below our expectation. The taxpayers still prefer to pay over the counter,” IRB director of payment services and information division Azizol Ahmad...
