iGovPhil Online Payment System PhPay Will Be Launched in February
Jan 6, 2014 (Mon): Filipinos can expect to make payments to Philippines government agencies more efficient and less time consuming with the launch of the government online payment system namely PhPay this February, Manila Standard Today reports. The report also says the government is considering to include government-owned and controlled corporations and state universities and colleges under PhPay’s coverage in the next phase. PhPay...
Shopify Mobile Launched for Selling Products Easily via Mobile Devices
Jan 6, 2014 (Mon): Shopify is introducing Shopify Mobile, a mobile app for merchants to sell products and manage their store anywhere, whether it’s online, in-store or on-the-go. If the merchants are using Shopify Payments, they can use free card reader from Shopify to accept cash or credit card payments from directly inside the mobile app. It just works as cash register right to the customers and benefits merchants who sell in flea...
Digital Music Sales Drops 5.7% Last Year
Jan 6, 2014 (Mon): The music industry magazine Billboard has reported that individual song downloads dropped from 1.34 billion in 2012 to 1.26 billion in 2013 and it was the largest drop since the launch of the iTunes store in 2003. The digital music sales also were reported fell 5.7% last year. According to the experts, the growth in online music streaming revenue was offsetting the decline in music...
MasterCard Acquires Payment Solution and Processing Provider Provus
Jan 6, 2014 (Mon): MasterCard on last Saturday announced that it has completed the acquisition of Provus Bilisim Hizmetleri A. S. (Provus), a leading independent payment solution and processing provider in Turkey. MasterCard did not disclose the terms of the deal. The President MasterCard Europe, Javier Perez said that the acquisition of Provus enables MasterCard to continue developing innovative solutions to add value to their...
BNM: Bitcoin Is Not Recognised Legally in Malaysia
Jan 5, 2014 (Sun): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) on Thursday issued an official statement saying that the digital currency Bitcoin is not recognized as legal tender in Malaysia as the Central Bank does not regulate the operations of Bitcoin. BNM is advising the public to be cautious of the risks associated with the usage of Bitcoin in the country.
Forrester Expects Ecommerce Revenues to Grow in 2014
Jan 5, 2014 (Sun): The global research and advisory firm Forrester Research, Inc. has discussed the arrival and importance of several eCommerce and also has predicted the top five global eCommerce trends this year in its recent global eCommerce report. According to the new report, Forrester says the top 5 trends to watch out for: Mobile traffic and sales will continue to climb. Brands will increasingly look to marketplaces to sell...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Could be Your When Top Up Using CIMB Clicks
Jan 4, 2014 (Sat): In partnership with CIMB Bank, DiGi will be giving away a Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE each week to its mobile prepaid customers with the highest weekly top up amount using CIMB Clicks. Besides, customers will also get DiGi 1GB Prepaid Broadband for PC and Tablet when they top up cumulative of RM30 and above with their CIMB Kwik Account before 3 February 2014.
Fortinet Earns AV-Comparatives ADVANCED+ Rating for Superior Malware Protection
Jan 3, 2014 (Fri): Fortinet – a world leader in high-performance network security – today announced the company has been awarded an ADVANCED+ rating in AV-Comparative’s August-November 2013 “Whole Product Dynamic ‘Real-World’ Protection Test,” earning an impressive 98% score out of 100%. Fortinet’s FortiClient 5 endpoint security suite was tested against 21 other antivirus clients from multiple countries for their ability to...
E-commerce Sites in Vietnam Must Register with Local Government to Avoid Penalty
Jan 2, 2014 (Thu): The Decree No 185 of the Vietnamese Government which came into effect yesterday will make enterprises and individuals who operating unregistered ecommerce businesses with Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) fined VND10-100 million and VND10-50 million respectively. The registered ecommerce business also will be fined if they do not report changes of information on their registered websites. Besides penalty, the...
Number Of The Year: Kaspersky Lab Is Detecting 315,000 New Malicious Files Everyday
Jan 1, 2014 (Wed): The overall global Internet threat level grew by 6.9 percentage points – in 2013, 41.6% of user computers were attacked at least once. In order to conduct all these attacks over the Internet in 2013, cyber criminals used 10,604,273 unique hosts, which is 60.5% more than in 2012. The USA and Russia are the leading hosts of malicious web resources – 45% of web attacks neutralized by Kaspersky Lab products were...
