MOL acquires Silicon Valley’s Rixty, Inc.
The Asia’s leading e-payment service provider, MOL AccessPortal Sdn. Bhd. (MOL) announced its successful acquisition on Silicon Valley-based alternative payment platform provider Rixty, Inc. (Rixty) and this strategic move has made MOL to easily reach the huge online games market in North and South of America. Rixty’s payment solution allows online gamers to spend cash and coins for online games, virtual worlds and digital contents...
Internet Advertising is on the rise globally
An evident from Nielsen’s Global AdView Pulse shows Internet Advertising increased 7.1 per cent in the first half of 2012. The Internet advertising made a powerful surge in the emerging markets of the Middle East & Africa (increased 30.3%) and Latin America (increased 20.6%). Interestingly, the advertising is on the rise globally and across all media types except magazine which fell 1.3 per cent mainly caused by both Europe and...
Cashless Singapore
Majority of the Generation Y (aged from 18 to 28) or Gen Y in Singapore believe their country will become a cashless society in future, according to the evidences from VISA’s ‘Connecting with the Millennials’ survey in Asia Pacific, Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. The survey revealed 74 per cent of Gen Y in Singapore said will make payments through their mobile phone and 79 per cent said will able to make all...
Debit card usage still low in Malaysia
Bank Negara Malaysia’s Financial Stability and Payment Systems Report for 2011 revealed that the debit card usage in the country is less than 10% (of card spend) while debit and credit cards together accounted for 342.1 million transactions worth RM95.1 billion last year. CIMB Bank head of retail banking Peter England told the reporters that the usage of debit card in Malaysia is relatively low if compared with Australia (60%) at the...
SME Corp Malaysia appoints MOLPay as its TPA
MOLPay, a member of MOL Global Group is appointed by SME Corp Malaysia as Third Party Acquirer (TPA) under SME Corp Malaysia’s Enabling ePayment for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Micro Enterprises program. Another e-payment provider Managepay Services Sdn Bhd (MSSB) announced the same appointment last week. by Alice Lee
Security of social networking enhanced through collaboration between Kaspersky and Facebook
Users of social networking could be a victim of cyber-crimes when they click on a link shared by a friend which is a Malicious URL. Malicious URLs can automatically share themselves with a victim’s personal contacts without the user’s knowledge, making the links appear legitimate. Facebook has formed a partnership with Kaspersky Lab, the leading developer of security and threat management solutions, in supplying Facebook with...
eSky teams up with WINS Global
The world e-Telephone service provider that provides first ENUM in the world, eSky announced its alliance partnership with WINS Global, to provide 2 million ENUM or eSky e-telephone numbers and mobile VoIP airtime service to WINS Global’s members. Telephone number mapping is the process of unifying the telephone number system of the public switched telephone network with the Internet addressing and identification name spaces. E.164...
Malaysia’s web traffic increases in July 2012
A report on the rankings of websites visited by Internet users in Malaysia was released by Effective Measure and the Malaysian Digital Association shows that 28.5 million unique browsers per month were collected on websites of all categories in the country for July 2012 which was increased 2.32 per cent if compared with June 2012. According to the report, 1.26 billion web pages from the websites were viewed and 13.6 per cent of it was...
Top 20 online florists in Malaysia
Based on the online findings conducted by VSDaily team, the following websites are the ‘Malaysia’s Top 20 Online Florists Year 2012″ chosen by VSDaily: Blooming.com.my [Click for store review] Bloom.com.my [Click for store review] Myflowerflorist.com [Click for store review] Gift-lab.com [Click for store review] Love.com.my [Click for store review] Bloomhouse.com.my [Click for store review] Fareastflora.com.my [Click...
Christy Ng: A successful entrepreneur needs practical minded
ChristyNg.com founded on 17 July 2010 is the most famous online shoes store in the country and was featured in television shows of ASTRO and TV3. ChristyNg.com is selling variety of handmade woman shoes ranging from high heel shoes, wedges, ballerina flats, sandals, wedding shoes and custom-made shoes. It sold over 500 pairs of shoes every month either to local or foreign markets. Christy Ng, the founder of ChristyNg.com who also won...
