Vietnam’s Peacesoft teams up with Visa’s CyberSource
The pioneer and leading e-commerce company in Vietnam, PeaceSoft signed a partnership agreement with CyberSource, a Visa company in fraud prevention for online payment. Under this partnership, Peacesoft is able to gain access to world’s largest fraud detection radar provided by CyberSource, to make its e-commerce platform including NganLuong.vn with more accurate and efficient fraud detection ability. NganLuong.vn is an electronic...
Rakuten Malaysia wants 5% e-market shares
The recent launched online shopping mall Rakuten Malaysia told local media companies that they are aiming to increase their existing merchant from 50 to 200 by end of 2013. Rakuten Malaysia believed they can secure 5 per cent of the Malaysian online shopping market share within 5 years by recruiting more quality merchants and working in marketing and advertising campaigns. Malaysia’s leading electrical chain stores Sen Heng was...
Zalora Malaysia raises fund for MAKNA
Malaysia’s leading online fashion retailer Zalora Malaysia managed to raise RM5,000 cash through its “Zalora Wears Pink” charity drive, to support the National Cancer Council’s (MAKNA) efforts to educate the public in preventing cancer as well as to increase cancer awareness, The Star reported. This initiative was in line with Zalora Malaysia’ Corporate Social Responsibility. by Alice...
Updated web browsers can help to prevent online security issue
The anonymous data collected from the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network revealed that 23 per cent of Kaspersky Lab’s customers do not use the latest stable or beta versions of web browser and 14.5 per cent of them have the previous version while 8.5 per cent of them still use obsolete versions such as Internet Explorer version 6 and 7. Kaspersky Lab advises the consumers should keep their choice of web browser up-to-date, with...
New mobile app helps restocking without computer access
E-commerce and mobile platforms provider AHG, Inc. introduced its new mobile app for iOS platform, QRwave that allows customers using QR code scanning method to place restocking order. This new iOS mobile app helps businesses to optimize ordering process and maintain optimal inventory levels. In the situations when the merchants do not have access to a computer to place an order from e-commerce vendor, QRwave serves as a necessary...
Visa found its new CEO
The global payment company, Visa Inc. appointed Charles Scharf as its new Chief Executive Officer to replace Joe Saunder who will retire in March 2013. Saunder still remain with Visa as executive chairman until his official retirement next year. Scharf, 47 years old, has previously spent time running JP Morgan’s retail bank and was Managing Director at One Equity Partners which is a private investment arm of JP Morgan. He was...
Terrapinn brings Internet business event to Indonesia
Terrapinn’s The Internet Show will be held from 5 to 6 December 2012 at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia, to help big, medium and small businesses to find new ways of doing Internet business. This two-day event will feature over 30 senior-level speakers from Indonesia and Asia to have a focus discussion on digital advertising &marketing, social media, e-commerce, cloud computing & hosting, mobile commerce & payments...
E-retailers will spend more on online marketing this holiday season
The recent survey titled “Loading the Sleigh: Marketers’ Plans & Expectations for the Holiday Season” conducted by Retail Systems Research revealed that 21 per cent of the participating e-commerce merchants said they would ‘significantly’ increase their online marketing budget while 22 per cent of them plan to slightly increase the budget. Majority or 87 per cent of the respondents saying email marketing is their preferred online...
Singapore-based Sprooki funded for further expansion
Sprooki, Asia’s first location-based mobile commerce services specifically designed for malls and retailers, received another round of seed funding of SGD0.59 million (RM1.47 million) from incubator Get2Volume and Singapore’s National Research Foundation’s Technology Incubator Scheme (TIS). To date, total funding taken by Sprooki is SGD1.00 million (RM2.49 million). Founded in February 2011, Sprooki is a customizable mobile...
The minister urges public to express their love to Federal Territories via social media
Blog for FT Ekpresi (BFTE) competition for public will be held from 16 November 2012 until 16 February 2012, to encourage people to express their love and support for their neighbourhood in Federal Territories, including Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan through social medias such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagam. Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin said the ‘Ekpresi’ used as the...
