LINE withdraws stickers gifting functions for iPhone
Mon, May 13, 2013: LINE has stopped function to send purchased stickers as gifts to friends on iPhone version since last Friday. However, the users who still have over 100 coins remaining still able to continue sending stickers as gifts until they have used up all coins.
Alibaba Groups welcomes new CEO Jonathan Lu after Jack Ma bows out
Mon, May 13, 2013: Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group stepped down as CEO of the group officially last Friday during Taobao’s 10th anniversary celebration party at Yellow Dragon Stadium in Hangzhou, China. Ma was the closing speaker at the event attended by more than 20,000 Alibaba Group employees and urged the crowd to trust new CEO Jonathan Lu as they trusted him. After May 10, Ma remains as Alibaba Group’s executive chairman and...
YouTube offers paid channels starting at US$0.99 per month
Mon, May 13, 2013: YouTube has formed up partnership with a small group of partners to offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees starting at US$0.99 (RM2.96) per month and each channel comes with 14-day free trial. After the subscription, users will be able to watch paid channels on computer, phone, tablet and TV. YouTube aims to roll out paid channels program more broadly in the coming weeks as a self-service feature for...
Consumers prefer to buy flowers for mum on Friday before Mother’s Day
Sun, May 12, 2013: MasterCard revealed that two days before Mother’s day tends to be the busiest day to florists. In 2012, MasterCard credit card and debit holders in US spent more than US$20 million (RM59.7 million) on Friday before Mother’s Day (or Florist Day). The below infographic summarizes the statistic on Florist...
Survey says 66% small business owners use mobile technology for their business
Sun, May 12, 2013: According to the Constant Contact-sponsored survey which was administered in March of 2013 to 1,305 small business owners, 66 per cent of them found currently using a mobile device, including smart phones and tablets, or a solution, like mobile-optimized websites and text message marketing for their business. The survey reveals more than half (73%) of the respondents conduct social media marketing and 71 per cent...
MasterCard to power Nigerian identity Smart Cards program
Sat, May 11, 2013: MasterCard has inked a partnership with the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), helping them to roll out MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability for the people in Nigeria. NIMC aims to introduce more than 100 million cards to Nigeria’s 167 citizens. The pilot banks that issuing the cards are Access Bank Plc, United Bank for Africa, Union Bank, Zenith,...
WePay unveils new risk engine to combat with frauds
Fri, May 10, 2013: WePay, a payment service provider helping small businesses to accept credit cards, has launched Veda risk engine, its social brain to fight against frauds. With Veda, WePay able to underwrite merchants automatically by drawing social data from a variety of sources including Facebook, Twitter and Yelp and the system can tell who is real and who isn’t real. According to WePay, a lot of fraudsters who search the...
World’s business commerce network Ariba introduces AribaPay
Fri, May 10, 2013: Ariba, an SAP company introduces its new service AribaPay which provide a reliable and cost-effective way for buyers to create purchase orders, receive invoices and send payments while sellers receive more-detailed remittance information in a fast, secure and electronic environment. Ariba expects the new service which will be available in 2014 can transform B2B payments. Ariba leverages Discover Financial Services’...
At least 190 million users actively use WeChat in a month
Fri, May 10, 2013: Tencent’s mobile messaging service Tencent has more than 190 million active users in a month while its mobile QQ browser have reached 500 million users every month, reports Marbridge Consulting.
Two WebLinc clients ranked top by Internet Retailer for best long-term growth
Thu, May 9, 2013: The e-commerce platform and services provider WebLinc congratulates its clients UrbanOutfitters.com and Fanatics.com for being ranked #1 and #2 respectively by Internet Retailer for having the best 10-year compound annual growth. UrbanOutfitters.com is an online store specializes in items with brands of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain and BHLDN while Fanatics.com is a licensed sports apparels...
