Rakuten Bank introduces personal international remittance service in Japan
Fri, Jun 28, 2013: Rakuten Bank Ltd. yesterday launched its international remittance service for retail customers and self-employed customers which can be carried out completely online. The service allows customers to send money to designated bank accounts in 203 countries and regions in 68 currencies, 24 hours a day with charges starting from 750 Yen (RM24.24). Customers just need to have a Rakuten Bank account and apply for it. Once...
Oracle offers cloud services to streamline pharmacovigilance for life sciences industry
Thu, 27 June 2013: Oracle Corporation, the world’s leading IT solution provider, today unveils Oracle Argus Cloud Service for life sciences organization to monitor and deliver new insight into adverse events and pharmacovigilance programs. The new offering is delivered via the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud and enables health sciences organizations to optimize their safety investment while reducing IT management resource...
Photo messaging platform SnapChat shares 200 million photos a day
Thu, Jun 27, 2013: Snapchat is a photo messaging application developed by four Stanford University students that allows users to a time limit for how long recipients can view their photos, up to 10 seconds. The images will self-destruct after the time limit. In a recent report by the Telegraph, Snapchat shares 200 million photos messages everyday and raised a further US$60 million (RM191.73 million) of venture capital funding this...
KPDNKK introduces new mobile app for consumers to check prices of essential goods
Thu, Jun 27, 2013: Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-Operatives and Consumerism Malaysia (KPDNKK) in collaboration with Malaysian Administrative Modernisation & Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), has launched myKPDNKK, a mobile application provides accurate prices for more than 400 consumer items as the information is authenticated and updated daily by KPDNKK. Besides price watch, consumers can obtain the status of their complaints,...
Square launches online marketplace Square Market for local businesses
Thu, Jun 27, 2013: Square, a US-based mobile payment company on Wednesday launched its online marketplace for businesses to sell everything from handmade jewelry, housewares and merchandise, to yoga lessons and beauty services. The new online marketplace, Square Market helps sellers to open a store for free and sellers just only charged one low fee of 2.75% per item sold. Sellers just post items directly to Twitter for their followers...
Things that should be discussed while hiring e-Commerce Development Company
Today, more businesses are opting for e-Commerce website as running a physical store is not enough to expand their business worldwide. Having a unique and exclusive e-store is highly important if you want to sell your products and services across the world and boost awareness of your brand. In recent times, e-Commerce becomes an important thing for companies to sale their products and services, and the cost of setting up an online...
iMoney receives RM500k grant under Cradle Investment Programme
Thu, Jun 27, 2013: Malaysia’s financial comparison website iMoney.my received a huge boost to its stature as “the people’s financial portal” with confirmation of funding support of RM500,000 from the Cradle Investment Programme (“CIP”) – a Government initiative offered by Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia to support local technology entrepreneurs. “We would like to thank Cradle for the immense support they’ve...
More leading food chains join forces with FoodPanda
Thu, Jun 27, 2013: Local food delivery e-commerce website, foodpanda.my has just recently tied up with more international food chains including Starbucks, Tony Roma’s, Old Town White Coffee and Morganfields. This means city dwellers in the Klang Valley and Penang can now expect to have their favorite cup of coffee and ribs delivered directly to them. The tie-up is significant as it provides an alternative for customers to enjoy coffee...
PayPal says online exports bring effective result SMEs in Malaysia
Thu, Jun 27, 2013: PayPal Pte. Ltd. recommends small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia to export their products online to global marketplace in accelerating business after PayPal found its Malaysian merchants experiencing double-digit growth online, the Sun Daily reported. According to Paypal, the fastest-growing online exports markets in Malaysia are Japan, China, Singapore, US and Australia on computers and accessories,...
Mobile payment wallet Flous debuts in Egypt
Wed, Jun 26, 2013: MasterCard, National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Etisalat on Monday launched mobile payment wallet in Egypt namely Flous (means money in Arabic) which can be used by Etisalat Egypt’s subscriber to make payment through their mobile phones securely. In the beginning, Flous only allows users to transfer money to anyone participating in the service using their mobile phones and to load cash on their phones or take out cash...
