MOL enters Vietnam market after acquisition over NganLuong
MOL AccessPortal Sdn. Bhd. (MOL) yesterday announced that the company has acquired 50 per cent stake in Vietnam’s NganLuong Joint Stock Company (NganLuong), an online payment unit of PeaceSoft Solutions Corporation (PeaceSoft). PeaceSoft is the pioneer and leading e-commerce player in Vietnam. The joint venture agreement has made MOL and PeaceSoft jointly operate the country’s first online payments and escrow platforms together with...
Yahoo! brings new mobile app for iPhone users
After recent introduction of new Yahoo! Weather app and Yahoo! Mail app, Yahoo! this week launched another new mobile app – Yahoo! mobile app for iPhone which is using Summly’s natural-language algorithms and machine learning to deliver quick story summaries. Yahoo! acquired Summly in March this year. The new app comes with improved search experience with better video and image search. When you’re signed into Yahoo!, the choices you...
Google calling university students to join Google Summer of Code program
Google Inc, via its blog, is encouraging university student with CS chops to join the Google Summer of Code program, which giving an opportunity for them to apply their skills learned in university on Google’s open source projects. Under the program, students are paired with mentors to help address technical questions and concerns throughout the course of the project. Over the past eight years more than 6,000 students have learned...
Gartner: India mobile services market to hit RM67.5b this year
The global information technology researcher Gartner forecasted that India’s mobile services market will reach RM67.5 billion (Rs.1.2 trillion) in 2013, up 8 per cent from 2012 revenue of RM61.9 billion (Rs. 1.1 trillion) while Mobile connections will grow to 770 million this year, increase 11 per cent from 712 million connections in 2012.
IDC ranks IBM as global market leader in enterprise social software
International Business Machines Corp (IBM), via its statement announced that IDC ranked IBM number one in worldwide market share for enterprise social software for the fourth consecutive year. IBM’s social business software and services pair powerful social networking capabilities with analytics that help their clients engage all key stakeholders whether an employee, customer or partners in order to accelerate innovation and...
India’s Transport Department launches new website offers e-services
Transport Department of Haryana State early of April launched www.haryanatransport.gov.in, a new website providing online services such as road tax, licenses and other registering related to transport to citizen, reports FutureGov. The transport department aims to make the new website to be an e-payment gateway for services offered.
India Post eyeing e-commerce market in India
According to Live Mint, India Post will tap into e-commerce market in India by building 20 mechanized warehouses and booking centres that exclusively handle shipments from e-commerce merchants to India’s 640 districts.
WorldPay US receives Visa EMV certification
The global card payment acquiring company WorldPay US, via its statement announced that they have successfully completed Visa EMV acquirer testing, a preparation for them to allow business owners to accept “chip” cards encrypted with the EuroPay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard. WorldPay US is planning to complete similar EMV with MasterCard, Discover and American Express in the coming months. After the received EMV certification,...
Infographic: What women want when apparel shopping
Swirl, a mobile and social technologies provider recently has conducted an independent study among 1,000 women shoppers to understand what women want when shopping their favourite apparel. The survey found majority of the women (76%) preferred in-store shopping rather than online (22%), via tablet (1%) and via smartphone (1%). The major reasons causing women still prefer in-store shopping are they want to see and touch clothes and...
First complete online travel agent NusaTrip.com launched in Indonesia
GLB Group recently has launched NusaTrip.com, an online travel platform allowing consumers to buy domestic and international airline tickets and hotels online and pay by ATM, online banking and credit card, reports Travel Daily News. NusaTrip.com is claimed as the first complete online travel agent in Indonesia bringing online instant booking for about 100,000 major hotels worldwide as well as airlines anywhere in the...
