Visa Commits to Strategic Investment in Klarna; Companies Plan Partnership Deal
Copenhagen, 30 June 2017: Visa and Klarna have announced they have reached an agreement for Visa to invest in Klarna, and intend to develop a future strategic partnership. Klarna is one of Europe’s fastest growing online payments companies, serving 60 million consumers and 70,000 retailers. The equity investment and planned partnership demonstrate Visa and Klarna’s shared vision to accelerate online and mobile commerce for the benefit...
Gamma Partners with MediaMath to Increase Programmatic Ad Yield for Publishers in Asia Pacific
Singapore, 30 June 2017: Gamma, a fast-growing Southeast Asia-based ad selling platform, has announced a partnership with MediaMath to deliver localised, highly-targeted ad inventory for advertisers. Advertisers will be able to programmatically target audiences across Gamma’s ecosystem of over 5,000 publishers in Southeast Asia for desktop, mobile, video and mobile applications, using specific metrics including age, gender,...
Connected Consumers Driving Growth of Smart Devices in Asia Pacific
Kuala Lumpur, 29 June 2017: The consumer technology market in Asia Pacific (APAC) has grown tremendously over the past year, with the introduction of new technologies and advancements of existing technologies. One innovative product that is gaining popularity in the market is the action camera. More brands (from 2 brands in 2015 to 13 brands in 2016) that offer 360-degree features have entered the market. In the last 12 months,...
Western Union Unveils Major Upgrade of Its Digital Payments Platform for International College Students
London, 29 June 2017: The Western Union Company, a leader in global payments services, has announced the launch of its enhanced WU® GlobalPay for Students product, which enables academic institutions to more efficiently reconcile, refund and track payments from international students. The platform is designed to help universities and colleges around the world simplify the reconciliation of incoming international payments, which can be...
Rocket Internet to Sell its Remaining 8.8% Stake in Lazada to Alibaba
Kuala Lumpur, 28 June 2017: Rocket Internet SE (“Rocket Internet”) has announced today it intends to sell its remaining 8.8% stake (fully-diluted) in Lazada Group S.A. (“Lazada”) to Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba”) for USD 276 million, equating to an implied USD 3.15 billion valuation of Lazada. The transaction is the result of the exercise of the put-call agreement entered into in...
Turn up your Spotify playlist and ‘Beraya’ with Waze
Kuala Lumpur, 28 June 2017: The recent partnership between Waze and Spotify that allows its users to navigate with Waze within Spotify has now just become more interesting! Waze and Spotify have created a special playlist this Raya for users to enjoy and get into the Raya mood from the time they get in the car until they reach their final destination without needing to create their own playlist. This is fantastic news to everyone...
Barracuda Report Reveals Cloud Use Continuing to Grow
Kuala Lumpur, 28 June 2017: Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-connected security and storage solutions, today announced key findings from a new global research report, “Unlocking the Benefits of Public Cloud” that outlines the respondents’ use of public cloud, benefits of public cloud, challenges with public cloud and public security. Thiban Dharmalingam, the Regional Manager of Barracuda in Malaysia shares, “This...
Kaspersky Lab on NotPetya global ransomware attacks
Petaling Jaya, 28 June 2017: Kaspersky Lab’s analysts are investigating the new wave of ransomware attacks targeting organizations across the world. Our preliminary findings suggest that it is not a variant of Petya ransomware as publically reported, but a new ransomware that has not been seen before. That is why we have named it NotPetya. The company’s telemetry data indicates around 2,000 attacked users so far. Organizations in...
iPay88 Wins Top Awards: For Responsible Business & e-Payment
KUALA LUMPUR, 21 June 2017: iPay88 Sdn Bhd (‘iPay88’) – Malaysia’s leading online payment gateway provider in Asia, today announced that it has won two (2) prestigious awards: – The Global Responsible Business Leadership Awards 2017 for “ICT Business Strategy Excellence”; The MyClear Malaysian e-Payments Excellence Awards for “Top FPX Ac-quirer (non-Bank)”. iPay88 prides itself on consistently...
New Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for ATMs and POS Terminals Closes Major Security and Compliance Gaps
Petaling Jaya, 20 June 2016: With the tactics of cybercriminals getting ever more sophisticated, and with regulatory pressures also mounting, financial enterprises are up against increasing hurdles when it comes to future-proofing their ATMs, Point of Sale systems and Point of Service machines. To help these organizations, Kaspersky Lab has released a new generation of its Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security. This targeted...
