Turkey’s Yemeksepeti wins MasterCard Mobile Shopping Application Award
MasterCard yesterday announced the winners of the MasterCard Mobile Shopping Application Awards, a unique competition recognising the best available mobile shopping applications in nine countries: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Russia and Turkey. The winners are: 1st prize: “Yemeksepeti” from Turkey – an app allowing users to order food online by selecting from a wide range of restaurants...
American Express OPEN introduces ReceiptMatch helping cardholders to reconcile card charges
American Express OPEN, the payment card issuer for small businesses in the United States has launched ReceiptMatch, a new feature included as a part of every Business Card from American Express OPEN that matches images of Business Card receipts to transactions to their online statements. With ReceiptMatch, the cardholders just take a picture of a Business Card receipt with an iPhone or Android phone and the app will match the receipt...
Celcom rolls out 4G LTE network officially
Celcom Axiata Bhd on Monday launched its 4G LTE network officially and started trial runs with customers via USB dongle for RM199 with three months free access, reports the Star Online. Currently, Celcom 4G LTE only covers selected areas within the Klang Valley, Penang, Malacca, Kota Baru, Johor Baru, Ipoh, Alor Star, Langkawi, Kuantan, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Terengganu and Kuching. Celcom is expected to have 300 sites running for 4G...
Facebook to have its fourth data centre in Altoona
Facebook Inc. recently announced that the company will set up a new data center in Altoona, lowa to cater for the growth of Facebook in the coming years, ensuring the people can enjoy fast and reliable experience on Facebook everyday. This new center will be the fourth owned and operated data center of Facebook. Currently, Facebook is operating its data center in Prineville, Oregon; Forest City, North Carolina; and Luleå,...
IBM acquires UrbanCode to enhance its mobile, social, big data and cloud technologies
IBM announced it has acquired UrbanCode Inc. early of this week, to improve its mobile, social, big data, cloud applications. With UrbanCode’s technology, businesses can reduce the cycle time it takes to get updates or new applications into market, from months to minutes, which can help to reduce cost and risk, while helping address changing client needs by enabling a company to rapidly incorporate feedback into and improve the...
Fortinet names Ahmed Rubaie as its new CFO and COO
Fortinet, a global provider of network security appliances today announced it has appointed Ahmed Rubaie as its new Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Prior joining Fortinet, Rubaie was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Ariba Inc., a cloud-based business to business commerce company.
2Checkout launches newest checkout product, Direct Checkout
2Checkout on Monday introduced Direct Checkout, a simple payment form that gives customers the appearance that they are still on a merchant’s site which can improves conversion while providing all the benefits of a hosted checkout solution. Direct Checkout works as an overlay iframe that collects a customer’s payment information allowing merchant’s site to remain visible during the entire checkout...
Netflix changes its policy to allow an account shared among family and friends
The Malaysian Reserve says the world’s Internet television network Netflix recently has changed its policy that now allows its customers to share their account with family and friends. Previously, Netflix restricted on the number of personal computers, tablets or phones that can use one account or the number of people who can sign in, though it limits each account to playing two video streams...
Philippine’s IP-Converge implements online payment for cloud services subscription
IP-Converge, a Philippine based Internet data center, telecommunications and cloud services company on Monday launched online payment facility for its cloud services at cloud.com.ph, reports GMA News. According to IP-Converge, they are the first in the country to offer locally hosted Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) accessible on the fly via online payment that could be charged on a usage-based subscription...
OCBC Singapore introduces first online banking tool for expense tracking and categorization
OCBC Bank on Monday launched Singapore’s first personal financial management tool for online and mobile banking namely OCBC Money Insights, allowing its savings, current and credit card account holders to: Track spending via automatically-categorised expenses Set budgets and manage expenses through SMS or email alerts Manage cash flow with payment reminders Set automatic contributions to different Savings Goals within one account Get...