Bangkok Bank introduces first financial app for Windows 8 in Thailand
Bangkok Bank, the largest commercial bank in Thailand unveiled its financial application for clients who are using desktop, laptop and tablet that running on Windows 8. This app allows Windows 8 users to access the bank’s information and services such as promotion, exchange rates, interest rates, calculators, branch and ATM locator more convenient and better browsing experience. The introduction of this app was in line with the bank’s...
Celebrates coming Christmas with Seagate’s Online Sweepstakes
Seagate, the leading storage solution provider is offering consumers in Malaysia the opportunity to win RM100,000 worth of prizes in Seagate’s Holiday Happens Online sweepstakes with the purchase of any Seagate storage product from its authorized resellers between 1 Nov and 31 Dec 2012. The contestants can stand a chance to win lucrative prizes such as a 3-Night holiday to the Maldives for two persons, Apple iPhone 5, Apple iPad 3 and...
Rakuten brings Japanese retailers to penetrate Indonesian market
Rakuten Inc., the Japan’s leading e-commerce company in collaboration with the Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), is organizing an exhibition from 12 Nov to 9 Dec, to promote products sold by 29 selected Japanese merchants in Grand Indonesia, Jakarta as well as through its Indonesian platform, Rakuten Belanja Online (RBO). This initiative was in line with METI’s Cool Japan Strategy Promotion Program’s objective,...
Maybank launches regional cash management service
Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), the first Malaysian bank to operate the business on a single standard system that spans multiple countries, announced they have entered into regional cash management (RCM) business through its Maybank2E web-based platform, to compete with the foreign banks including Standard Chartered and HSBC, who are dominating the business over the last 20 years. Maybank has invested US$20 million (RM61.18 million) in...
Vietnam e-commerce is bound to grow and flourish
As the world’s largest coffee and rice supplier, Vietnam has great potential in export businesses. The domestic businesses are advised by the government to capitalize government’s initiatives in developing and expanding new markets, especially through e-commerce which can help them to reduce cost and improve competitiveness while expanding the business. At the end of September 2012, the number of Internet user in the country was...
ShopIntegrator, a new e-commerce add on module for Drupal
ShopIntegrator which established in 2004, is a secure, easy-to-use hosted shopping cart software to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) for e-commerce and m-commerce. As low as US$2.75 (RM8.41) per month, SMEs can turn their website into an online store that McAfee Secure and PCI compliant within minutes and without change of web hosting companies. With the new developed Drupal ShopIntegrator e-commerce add-on module released by...
New tool to help online fashion retailers to boost sales
In a recent report of Reuters shared that the researchers from the London College of fashion, the University of Surrey and the company Bodymetrics have developed a new body scanning device which can give accurate measurement by getting user’s height and taking a single full-length picture of he or she with a webcam or smartphone. It uses the measurements combined with a person’s overall proportions to build a 3D image and overcome the...
Daily Express launches online app for e-readers
Daily Express, the largest daily circulation newspaper in Sabah introduced its new online app which allows users to view the newspaper online via smart phones and mobile internet devices. The current online apps works on iOS and Android platform. Liew Chiew Kiong, a consultant at Juice-Apac, a website development company for Daily Express said that the app had over 50,000 hits per month as reported in the latest monthly report. by...
Another illegal online gambling arrested in Sarawak
In an ongoing operation against online gambling, the police arrested 16 individuals and seized 18 computers and RM2,000 cash at two cyber cafes in Bau, Kuching on Monday, the Borneo Post reported. The group of people who aged 22 to 47 nabbed by police will be investigated under the open Gaming House Act 1953 (Online Gambling). by Alice...
TransferTo teams up with Korvac and 7-11 for crossborder mobile credit transfer
Fixed & Mobile Private Limited, operating as TransferTo, a Singapore-based leading provider of global cross border top-up services, in collaboration with a payment and information processing company Korvac Holding Pte. Ltd., introduced its new service namely Mobile AirTime Transfer (MATT) that designed for foreign workers in Singapore to allow them to send mobile credits to their loved ones in Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka,...
