Author: Digital News Asia
N2N and UK-based Ancoa in market surveillance pact across APAC
KL-based N2N Connect and London-headquartered Ancoa have signed an OEM agreement to offer Ancoa’s full breadth of market surveillance capabilities to N2N’s banking and brokerage clients.
Maybank and Sage team up to offer free digital banking solution to SMEs
Maybank has teamed up with Sage Software to offer a free digital banking solution for SMEs that would enable them to undertake instant electronic payments via online and mobile banking channels directly from their accounting and payroll modules.
ITU focus group on financial inclusion to meet in KL
The ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services (DFS) for Financial Inclusion will be meeting in Kuala Lumpur at the end of the month to continue discussions on what the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has described as one of the world’s most challenging social and economic issues: Access to formal financial services by the world’s poorest two billion people.
Almost half of Singaporeans won’t fix their broken smartphones: OtterBox study
A new study commissioned by US mobile accessories maker OtterBox shows that a significant number of Singapore smartphone users will not spend money to repair their damaged smartphone. And even if they did, they would only be willing to pay US$135 for the repair.
Astro’s e-commerce venture hits RM75mil revenue in 6mths
Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd said its e-commerce venture Go Shop, officially launched in February, reported RM75 million (US$17.4 million) in revenue in the first half of 2016 (H1 2016).
Jakarta’s HappyFresh raises US$12mil in Series A
Jakarta-based online grocery company HappyFresh said it has completed a Series A funding round led by Vertex Ventures, the venture arm of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, and Sinar Mas Digital Ventures, the venture arm of Sinar Mas Group of Indonesia.
Global telcos, including Singtel, unite to bridge startup ecosystems
The startup innovation arms of Singtel (Singtel Innov8), Orange (Orange Fab), Deutsche Telekom (hub:raum) and Telefónica (Telefónica Open Future), said they have joined forces to bridge the startup ecosystems across South-East Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
More than 400 e-tailers on board for #MyCyberSale 2015
Malaysia’s national ICT custodian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) has announced that the country’s biggest online sales event #MyCyberSale will take place from Sept 28 to Oct 2 this year, involving more than 400 e-commerce retailers and promising discounts of up to 90%.
Indosat gandeng Twitter lewat #TwitBuy
PT Indosat Tbk dan Twitter secara resmi mengumumkan kerjasama mereka dengan menawarkan layanan baru bernama #TwitBuy. Layanan ini memberi kemudahan bagi pelanggan Indosat untuk membeli dan memperpanjang paket Internet, telepon, dan SMS.
Indonesia’s Smartfren launches LTE-Advanced network, plans virtualised core
PT Smartfren Telecom Tbk has deployed Nokia Networks’ LTE (Long-Term Evolution) technology to launch what is being described as Indonesia’s first TDD-FDD (Time-Frequency Division Duplex) LTE network.
