Vietnam’s Techcombank selects SunGard’s ATM solution
Mon, May 27, 2013: Techcombank, the second largest bank by assets in Vietnam will be adopting a new ATM solution created by software company SunGard, the Banking and Payments Asia reported. The solution is part of SunGard’s IntelliMatch Operational Control solution suite which designed to help financial institutions reduce operational costs. SunGard is a software and technology services companies that provides software and processing...
Skrill expands its online payment coverage in Russia via Yandex.Money
Mon, May 27, 2013: Skrill has established a strategic partnership with Yandex.Money, one of the most popular payment service in Russia, allowing its 140,000 merchants worldwide able to accept payment from Russians via Yandex.Money. According to research company TNS Global, 84 per cent of Russians are familiar with Yandex.Money and 17 per cent use it to make payments at least once every six months. Yandex.Money was reported that is...
9 e-commerce sites run 1 week promotional campaign for Telkomsel subscribers
Mon, May 27, 2013: In conjunction with the Telkomsel’s 18th anniversary celebration yesterday, nine local e-commerce sites will offer one week promotion dedicated for Telkomsel users, Tech in Asia reported. The nine participating online shops are Lazada Indonesia, Zalora Indonesia, Berrybenka, PinkEmma, Bilna, Plasa, Reebonz, LivingSocial and FoodPanda. Telkomsel is the largest telecommunication company in...
CUP International partners with MoneyGram to offer emergency funds service
Mon, May 27, 2013: MoneyGram and CUP International have entered into a partnership, allowing China UnionPay (CUP) credit card holders to access emergency funds from most countries within the MoneyGram network. The emergency fund service is a critical value-added service that CUP credit card holders can rely on during an emergency. After verifying the account holder’s identification, the service has a US$5,000 dollar emergency cash...
Google is competing with Facebook in bidding for Waze
Mon, May 27, 2013: Two weeks ago Facebook was reported that working toward acquisition over Wave. According to recent report by the Telegraph, Google is also considering to acquire mobile navigation app Waze and setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook.
Visa Inc. appoints Ryan McInerney as its President
Mon, May 27, 2013: Visa Inc. has announced the appointment of Ryan McInerney as its President, who will be responsible for Visa’s global client organization, product management as well as a new solutions group, which will focus on building and bringing to market new products and services to Visa’s issuer, acquirer and merchant clients. He will report to Charlie Scharf, CEO of Visa...
Internet advertising still relatively low compared with traditional advertising
Sun, May 26, 2013: Global advertising spend will be accelerated over the next few months due to the huge growth in the emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia and China, Jana.com reported. The emerging markets are estimated to bring additional US$200 billion revenue to the global advertising in the next 10 to 15 years. However, the advertising spending amount of Internet advertising is still relatively low if compared with the...
Amazon Appstore now available for customers in 200 countries
Sat, May 25, 2013: Amazon has announced that its Appstore is now available to millions of customers in nearly 200 countries, giving them access to apps and games on their Macs, PCs or Android phones and tablets, including famous and new games like Angry Birds Friends, Iron Man 3, Temple Run 2 and Plants vs. Zombies. For more, please visit...
Kindle Fire HD 7” and 8.9” now available for global customers to pre-order
Fri, May 24, 2013: Amazon yesterday announced Kindle Fire HD 7” and Kindle Fire HD 8.9” are now available to customers in over 170 countries and territories around the world for pre-order through its e-commerce platform. With the new Kindle Fire, the users can access to millions of apps, games, books, audiobooks and magazines, including more than 300,000 books that are exclusive to the Kindle Store. The Kindle Fire HD is featuring:...
Fortinet Introduces Next-Generation Operating System for Web Application Firewall Product Family in Malaysia
Fri, May 24, 2013: Fortinet, a world leader in high-performance network security has introduced the next-generation operating system (OS) for its FortiWeb Web application firewalls product family, providing important new security advancements to protect against increasingly malicious application layer attacks. The new FortiWeb 5 OS, which is backward compatible with the entire FortiWeb family, features critical security advancements...
