One Foundation immediate receives donation via Bitcoin after launching the payment method
China’s One Foundation has become the first Chinese organization to start accepting Bitcoin donations and received donation of US$30,000 within two days after the launch of Bitcoin payment on April 23, 2013, reports Bitcoin magazine. Currently, One Foundation is recognized as the most successful Bitcoin charities. The One Foundation is the first officially recognized private charitable fundraising organization operating in...
MasterCard Mobile Shopping App Award winner offers cashless food orders in Turkey
Yemeksepeti, the first prize winner in MasterCard Mobile Shopping Application Award, brings Turkish people to their favourite food venues without any additional fee when ordering. Consumers just simply have to browse the restaurants in their geographical locations, categorize them and then place the order whenever they want. According to Nevzat Aydun, CEO and founder of Yemeksepeti, currently more than 20 per cent of all orders on...
Men tends to be shop online via mobile device
According to the data from Kantar Media’s Global TGI survey as shown below, men are more likely to shop from a mobile device than women are, reports the Practical eCommerce. TGI (Target Group Index) is a global network of single-source market research surveys providing invaluable, comparable consumer...
New version of Twitter for Mac users
Twitter last week announced it launched new version of Twitter for Mac with few improvements such as easier to share photos, retina display support, supports more than 14 languages, offers keyboard shortcuts; and support for multiple accounts and timelines.
The chairman of Yahoo! board steps down
Yahoo! Inc. last week announced that Fred Amoroso has resigned as chairman of the board but Amoroso will continue to serve on the board through the shareholders meeting on June 25. Meanwhile, Maynard Webb, Jr. has been appointed as interim chairman.
Weebly introduces its mobile version for Android users
Weebly, a solution that enable over 12 million people to easily create personal sites and blogs or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches and artistic portfolios, just launched its mobile version for Android users. The Android version of Weebly is similar like its iPhone app which allows users to: Create blog posts on the go with drag & drop mobile blogging Easily add photos and text to the blog...
Skrill names Roland Schaar as its Senior VP of Technology
Skrill, via its statement on Thursday, announced it has appointed Roland Schaar as Senior Vice President of Technology. Roland has more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry and 13 in the financial payments sector. Roland recently joined the Skrill Group following the acquisition of paysafecard, where he was and remains CIO, along with responsibility for IT development and 24/7 operations across the Skrill Group. Prior...
Amazon.com sales grow 22% in Q1 2013
Amazon.com, Inc. on Thursday announced financial results for its first quarter and the result shows net sales increased 22 per cent to US$16.07 billion in the first quarter, compared with US$13.18 billion in first quarter 2012.
Delmates.com acquires IloveDiscounts.com for its expansion in Malaysia
Malaysia’s fast growing flash sales site, Dealmates.com has acquired Ilovediscount.com, an online group buying company which has added additional 250,000 members to make its number of members to reach 750,000 in the country, reports Malaysian Reserve. After the expansion, Dealmates aims to become the largest and most active online shopping site in the country and expected to generate a revenue of RM30 million this year. Dealmates.com...
AV-TEST certifies Kaspersky Lab Dynamic Whitelist technology
Kaspersky Lab’s Dynamic Whitelist technology has received the “Approved Whitelisting Service” certificate following independent testing by the AV-TEST research lab. Integrated into a number of the company’s security solutions, the technology is designed to protect computers with the help of a database of trusted software. Kaspersky Lab is the first vendor to receive the certificate from independent test Lab. The experts at AV-TEST...
