Simple Tips to Help You Avoid Being A Victim of Online Credit Card Fraud
Credit card fraud has been in existence for a long time now. In many cases, it has mainly rotated around getting other people’s credit cards and stealing their money from their bank accounts and ATM machines. However of late, credit card fraud has shifted towards the Internet. The biggest challenge with this is that whereas the technology that enables internet access to bank accounts and credit cards can flow so easily from one part...
US$10m fund available to boost Rakuten’s e-commerce in Asia Pacific
Thu, Jun 20, 2013: Rakuten Asia Pacific has allocated US$10 million (RM31.5 million) venture capital fund to drive its businesses mainly e-commerce in Asia Pacific, Bernama reported. Rakuten Malaysia will be benefited from this round of funding. Currently, Rakuten Malaysia is having steady growth and has increased its merchants to 130 that offering about 11,000 products through its e-commerce...
Donahoe says PayPal may get a payments license in China
Thu, Jun 20, 2013: John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay Inc. is confident that eBay’s PayPal will be the first foreign company to be awarded a payments license in China. However, the process may take months or years for PayPal to achieve that through a joint venture with a domestic company, Reuters reported.
You may receive birthday surprise from friends by Amazon.com Gift Cards
Wed, Jun 19, 2013: Amazon.com has launched Amazon Birthday Gift, a new way for customers to surprise friends on their birthdays by joining together to send Amazon.com Gift Cards with birthday messages on Facebook. As long as a single friend started a gift by adding a US$1, US$5, US$10 or US$25 Amazon.com Gift Card with a birthday message, any other friends can join in by also contributing the gift card. The surprise (the wishes and...
Oracle Launches New Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7
Wed, 19 June 2013: Oracle Corporation, a global IT solution provider and Java Community Process (JCP) member, today unveils the availability of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) and the Java EE 7 Software Development Kit (SDK) to support HTML 5 and further increase developer productivity. The new Java EE 7 features a scalable infrastructure that facilitates building HTML5 applications by reducing response times through...
Transcosmos to provide call center and e-commerce outsourcing services in Indonesia
Wed, Jun 19, 2013: Transcosmos Inc., an IT outsourcing company from Japan has inked a strategic partnership agreement with PT Cyberindo Aditama (CBN), forming up a joint venture company, PT transcosmos Indonesia to provide call center services, digital marketing and e-commerce outsourcing in Indonesia.
E-payments make our economy more efficient
Wed, Jun 19, 2013: A recent study for Visa by Moody’s Analytics reveals that the growth in the use of electronic payment (e-payment) products such as credit and debit cards makes the global economy more efficient and brings positive boost to the global gross domestic product (GDP). The study examined the contribution of e-payment to the GDP among 56 countries including Malaysia between 2008 and 2012. For Malaysia, the study shows...
Western Union teams up with IACC to combat counterfeit goods
Wed, Jun 19, 2013: Western Union, a global money transfer company has announced its alliance with the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) to help identify and prevent the sale of counterfeit goods through the IACC Payment Processor Portal Program. Its rival, MoneyGram joined the program in January this year. IACC Payment Processor Portal Program provides a system for intellectual property rights-holders, such as...
Rakuten Smartpay lowers its transaction fee
Wed, Jun 19, 2013: Rakuten Inc. has decided to lower the transaction fee for the Rakuten Smartpay service. Effective from 18 June 2013, small and medium sized businesses can accept credit card transactions on smartphones and tablets via Rakuten Smartpat with a transaction fee of 3.24 per cent. In an effort to encourage more business owners to adopt Rakuten Smartpay, Rakuten agreed to waive the initial fee of 2,980 yen for setting up...
Google celebrates 10th anniversary for its AdSense
Wed, Jun 19, 2013: Google AdSense which was launched 10 years ago, has become a core part of Google’s advertising business. According to Google, the Adsense community now has more than 2 million publishers and the publishers earned more than US$7 billion (RM22.1 billion) from AdSense last year.
