StanChart introduces new credit card for frequent travellers
Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Bhd (StanChart) yesterday launched its new Standard Chartered WorldMiles MasterCard which is designed for frequent travellers with income requirements of RM24,000 a year, reports Business Times. StanChart has chosen Malaysia as the first market to launch the card due to travel is a popular leisure activity in the country, according to StanChart. StanChart aims to sign up 80,000 cardholders for this...
New Yahoo! Weather App brings weather forecast together with beautiful images
Yahoo! has launched the Yahoo! Weather App for iPhone, iPod and iPod touch in 30 languages, sharing your current local condition while featuring beautiful images reflecting the current weather in places that matter to you from Flickr community. It just likes a postcard with details of weather forecast, including precipitation, wind and pressure and a radar...
Yahoo! unveils new Yahoo! Mail Apps for iPad and Android tablets
Yahoo! last week released its Yahoo! Mail Apps for iPad and Android tablets which allows users to read emails like reading magazine – no folders, no buttons, no tabs and just flip through it like a magazine to continue reading. The new app also makes the users can quickly select messages, automatically group by sender, and with a swipe – delete, star, or move them...
Twitter introduces new service helping people find music online
Last Thursday, Twitter launched Twitter #music, a new service that help people to find music easily online based on Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also allow the users to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, the users can tweet songs right from the app. The songs from the service currently...
Malaysia’s online scams down 50% in Q1 2013
According to Bank Negara, Malaysia’s online scam cases in first quarter 2013 dropped 50 per cent from 1,321 cases to 714 cases, compared to the same period of 2012, reports the Star Online. The six-month 2013 e-Banking Awareness Campaign which was started in January this year has proved its effectiveness to stop online scams such as credit card frauds and...
Johan intends to sell its Diners Club businesses in Malaysia and Singapore
Johan Holdings Bhd, a corporation listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad was reported by the Star Online that they are in talks to sell its charge and credit card businesses – Diners Club in Malaysia and Singapore.
UOB Malaysia introduces Lady’s Solitaire Card for women with high earning salary
United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd (UOB Malaysia) on Friday launched its Lady’s Solitaire Card, a credit card designed specifically for women earning more than RM150,000 and above per annum, reports Bernama new agency. According to UOB Malaysia, currently they have 500,000 cardholders which represent 5 per cent of the overall cards market and aim to increase it to 10 per cent within the next three...
BitFloor, the Bitcoin exchange closes shop
The fourth largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, BitFloor has announced that they are ceasing their trading operation and they will refund the deposits to customers, reports the Bitcoin magazine.
Maxis becomes the first Malaysia’s telco to offer a social media-based starter pack
Maxis Berhad on Thursday launched its latest 3-in-1 social media prepaid plan namely Hotlink Social Edition, allowing its prepaid customers enjoy free unlimited access to Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. The Hotlink Social Edition is also catered to existing Hotlink customers, where they can purchase the Social Edition Hot Ticket to enjoy the services and more.
Boston Aftermath
MALAYSIA: While many are still in shock after the Boston Marathon bombings on 16 April, it didn’t take long for cyber criminals to abuse that tragic incident for their dirty deeds. Today Kaspersky Lab already started receiving emails containing links to malicious locations with names like “news.html”. These pages contain URLs of non-malicious youtube clips covering the recent event. After a delay of 60 seconds, another link leading to...
