Ecwid Named As One of the 20 Hottest Startups in Russia
Jan 13, 2014 (Mon): The online store front provider Ecwid has been listed by Mashable as one of the “20 Hottest Startups in Russia”. Ecwid which started 5 years ago in Russia, has more than 350,000 registered users and clients globally and expanded its presence in the U.S.
Apple App Store Hit US$10B Sales in 2013
Jan 12, 2014 (Sun): Apple has announced that customers spent over US$10 billion on the App Store last year. In December alone, customers downloaded almost three billion apps and contributed over US$1 billion sales. “We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The lineup of apps for the holiday season was...
How Your Online Shop Can Beat Big Box Retailers
Jan 11, 2014 (Sat): The e-commerce store front provider BigCommerce recently studied data from its 50,000 online stores to identify which categories are growing and dominating the competition online. BigCommerce has summarized its study result in the following infographic and hope it can guide online retailers to build a small- to medium-sized online business that can stand up to the big box...
Coinbase Introduces Android SDK for Accepting Bitcoin
Jan 11, 2014 (Sat): Coinbase, a digital wallet that allows people to buy, use and accept bitcoin currency, in collaboration with BitMonet has released an Android SDK that makes it super simple for Android developers to accept Bitcoin in their Android app without the customer ever leaving the app. The SDK is open source and available at...
CyberSecurity: Beware Cyber Flirts Trap
Jan 11, 2014 (Sat): Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab, the Chief Executive Officer of CyberSecurity Malaysia has advised Malaysians must be extra careful and not to entertain online seductions from women they got to know only in social media, but had never really known them in person, Bernama reports. According to Amirudin, most of the victims were teenage boys to middle aged man and they suspect the perpetrators are foreign nationals mainly...
3-D Secure Can Positively or Negatively Impact Sales Conversion Rates
Jan 10, 2014 (Fri): In collaboration with the strategy consulting form Edgar, Dunn & Company, the global payment solution provider Adyen has conducted analysis of how applying 3-D Secure to all transactions can positively or negatively impact conversion rates on a per-country basis. The report reveals that 3-D Secure has an overwhelmingly positive impact on conversion rates in countries such as India (up 30%) and the United...
Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST for Campus Now Supporting UPM
Jan 9, 2014 (Thu): Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions, today announced that Universiti Putra Malaysia (‘UPM’), a leading local research university, has opted for the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST open server technology as part of a core IT transformation investment; Making the university the first PRIMEQUEST user in the country. According to UPM’s Director of InfoComm Development Center (iDEC), Khairulmizam Samsudin...
Seagate Ultra Mobile to Power LENOVO Yoga 2 PC
Jan 09, 2014 (Thu): Seagate Technology plc, a worldwide leader in storage solutions, today announced that it is working with Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker, to deliver YOGA 2, a new multimode PC powered by the Seagate Laptop Ultrathin HDD. Both companies will demo the YOGA 2 multimode PC at CES 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Seagate has had an ongoing strategic alliance with Lenovo for many years. By delivering the technology that...
Comprehensive and Ambitious Financial Comparison Website MoneyMax Launched in Philippines
Jan 9, 2014 (Thu): Filipino consumers can now maximize their budget with MoneyMax, the country’s most comprehensive financial comparison website. MoneyMax plans to offer comparison services for products and services ranging from credit cards to insurance to broadband and beyond, and it has recently made its first few categories available for comparison to Filipinos. The MoneyMax website now compares a full spectrum of credit card and...
Oracle Unveiled its Largest-Ever Release of Oracle Retail Solutions
Jan 8, 2014 (Wed): Oracle Corporation, the industry’s leading ICT solutions provider, today introduced Oracle Retail version 14, the enhanced suite of retail solutions, to enable relevant customer engagements across touchpoints, targets assortments, drives improved efficiency from inventory and helps reduce total cost of ownership. “In the global retail industry, we have seen a shift of capital from building and refurbishing stores to...
