[24]7 acquires social commerce platform Shopalize
Wed, May 15, 2013: 24/7 Customer, Inc. or [24]7, the intuitive customer experience company has acquired Shopalize, a social commerce platform for online retailers to help increase social sharing and customer referrals from Social Media. Currently, Shopalize has over 600 e-commerce companies using its platform to grow online business. Shopalize enables e-commerce retailers to promote their brand and increase sales through social...
Kaspersky to power mobile security for QTI’s Android devices
Wed, May 15, 2013: Kaspersky Lab will preload Kaspersky Mobile Security and Kaspersky Tablet Security solutions onto Android devices powered by QTI’s Qualcomm Snapdragon™ processors, thanks to the agreement signed between Kaspersky Lab and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI). Currently, Qualcomm Snapdragon processors can be found in more than 770 commercially available or announced products, with another 550 product designs in the...
MasterCard appoints two new leads to strengthen its prepaid and debit in APMEA region
Wed, May 15, 2013: MasterCard yesterday announced it has appointed Robert Keenan as Lead for Debit and Jason Tymms as Prepaid Lead for the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region. MasterCard believes Robert and Jason’s wealth of experience in debit and prepaid respectively will be able to help MasterCard to develop unique and innovative payment products and solutions to cater to a growing consumer demand for convenient and...
Glympse offers SDKs for public to integrate with its location sharing technology
Wed, May 15, 2013: Glympse Inc, the mobile technology company that pioneered temporary real-time location sharing, has introduced a new platform that allows developers to integrate their products and applications with Glympse location technology. Under the new platform, Glympse location technology is applicable to a wide variety of industries and applications, including voice, mapping & navigation, health & fitness, messaging,...
TM: 50% of SMEs leveraging ICT to grow their business
Wed, May 15, 2013: Azizi A Hadi, the executive vice president of Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM), during shared that TM is offering TM’s broadband and other information communications technology (ICT) related services to 320,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, reports the Sun Daily. He added that the total number of active SMEs doing business in Malaysia is about 640,000. 320,000 represents 50% of the active SMEs is...
U Mobile becomes first local telco to partner with KaKaoTalk and WeChat
Wed, May 15, 2013: Malaysia’s 3G mobile operator U Mobile Sdn Bhd (“U Mobile”) on Monday announced it has formed up strategic partnership with KakaoTalk and WeChat, two of the most popular messaging applications in the market. Under the partnership, U Mobile prepaid users who are on Unlimited Mobile Internet (UMI) packages able to enjoy free data when connecting with their friends and family through KakaoTalk and WeChat. Meanwhile, U...
MOL Indonesia teams up with Alfaria for expansion in Indonesia
Wed, May 15, 2013: PT. MOL AccessPortal or MOL Indonesia has established a strategic partnership with PT. Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk. (“Alfaria”), allowing MOL Indonesia to leverage Alfaria’s Alfamart and Alfamidi outlets to sell its online game vouchers. Alfaria is one of the Indonesia leading retailers, serving more than 2.5 million customers daily, with approximately 7,000 stores across Indonesia. Its outlets provides affordable...
Tesco ventures into co-buying site for wine
Tue, May 13, 2013: Tesco, one of the largest retailers in the world introducing its new co-buying site for wine in the U.K. The concept of co-buys is the more people who buy, the better the price becomes for everyone. However, the co-buys only last a short time and stock is limited too. Besides, a member may get a product for free when he or she introduces most people to join the...
Alibaba invests navigation solutions provider AutoNavi
Tue, May 14, 2013: AutoNavi Holdings Limited announced that it has received an investment of US$294 million (RM880.97 million) from Alibaba Group for its 28 per cent shares. AutoNavi is the leading provider of digital map content and navigation solutions in China. They have built a mobile and Internet location-based media and e-commerce platform that enables them to offer customers and business partners a broad range of location-based...
Google decided not to launch physical credit card
Tue, May 14, 2013: Google has cancelled its plan of launching physical credit card as part of the Wallet project, says The Times of India.




