KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 – Malaysian-based Teik Senn (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, or TSM, a leading fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distributor, recently upgraded to the flagship ORION ERP Suite from 3i Infotech. TSM was seeking an upgrade that would support a group-wide consolidation of operations, and was cloud-enabled, which would allow real-time
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 – The National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) is always open for negotiations to all borrowers with difficulties in making repayments and strives to ease their burden. PTPTN, in a statement here today, said the action taken was not to pressure any parties but for the sake of
TOKYO, Sept 28 – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it will progressively introduce and deploy a core system using SAP’s cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, SAP Business ByDesign, to NEC Group companies throughout the world in order to further strengthen global management. NEC New Zealand Limited initiated the
Prior to the public release of iOS 10, Kwikset warned users of its Kevo smart lock that the device would lose some its “touch-to-open” feature due to a bug on Apple’s side. Now, the company has released a statement saying that the issue has been resolved with last week’s iOS 10.0.2 release. The
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 28 – A big scale high tide phenomenon with massive waves and strong winds is expected to hit the west coast of the peninsula from Oct 17 to 20 and from Nov 14 to 17. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said various strategies and deployment
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 27 – Penangite Jeryl Lee Pei Ling, who has made it to the top six in the Sing! China competition, has arrived Penang yesterday while holding a press conference at 1st Avenue Mall here this morning. Lee, 16, are the latest Malaysian girls making waves in Chinese singing
AMSTERDAM, Sept 27 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has been awarded a major contract by BankAxept, the national payment scheme of Norway, to enable all local banks to interconnect through a single credentials management hub for streamlined and secure management of mobile payments services.
TAIPEI, Sept 27 – Taiwan went into shutdown Tuesday as the island faces its third typhoon in two weeks, with thousands evacuated, schools and offices closed across the island and hundreds of flights disrupted. Typhoon Megi is expected to make landfall in eastern Taiwan later Tuesday but is already bringing widespread violent winds and
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at his company’s massive Ignite conference to lay out his vision for how deep learning and artificial intelligence will transform the company. “AI is at the intersection of our ambitions,” Nadella said, noting how it will allow us “to reason over large amounts of data
MEXICO CITY, Sept 27 – Thousands of people marched on Monday with the parents of 43 missing students in Mexico City, demanding that they be found alive on the second anniversary of their disappearance. The protesters chanted “We want them alive!” as they rallied across the mega-city’s main boulevard, with the parents
If you combined the fastest and slowest types of social media, the result could be both must-see and never-forgotten. YouTube lacks short-form, frequently updated content, but is synonymous with video and that popularity brings in lucrative ads. Twitter is struggling with growth and monetization, but it’s the pulse of the planet, generating
HEMPSTEAD, Sept 27 – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off Monday in one of the most consequential presidential debates in modern US history, with up to 100 million viewers to tune in for the hotly-anticipated political duel. With polls tightening into a virtual dead heat, the stakes could hardly be higher: the
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 – A gunman, who police say was wearing military attire with Nazi emblems, opened fire in Houston on Monday just before daybreak, wounding nine people before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire. The shooter was a Houston-area lawyer, the Texas city’s police chief Martha Montalvo told a
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 – Republican candidate Donald Trump pledged today to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided” capital if he is elected president. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met privately with Trump at his residence in Trump Tower a day before the New York billionaire faces off against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for
Apple’s lack of lobbying presence in Europe left in largely in the dark about the long-running investigation into its Irish tax arrangements, argues the WSJ. It has been ruled that Apple underpaid tax in Europe to the tune of €13B ($15B). The iPhone maker spent less than €900,000 ($1M) in 2015 to
SEOUL, Sept 26 – Tens of thousands of unionised workers at South Korea’s Hyundai Motor staged their first full strike on Monday for more than a decade after negotiations over a wage increase stalled. Nearly 50,000 workers at Hyundai Motor’s three plants across the country – including the main one in the southern
PANAJI, Sept 26 – World football body Fifa has banned a senior Qatari official from running in elections for a seat on its new-look council over an investigation. Scandal-plagued Fifa’s ethics committee last month recommended a two-and-a-half-year ban from the game for Saoud Al-Mohannadi, vice-president of the Qatar Football Association, for refusing
TAIPEI, Sept 26 – Victims of a water park explosion that killed 15 and left hundreds with horrific burns rallied in Taiwan Monday as anger mounts that only one person has been jailed over the tragedy. It is more than a year since the blast at Formosa Fun Coast near the capital
Apple today officially opened its first retail store in Mexico. The store is located in Vía Santa Fe and marks the “first time customers in Mexico City can experience all of Apple’s products and services in one place.” Apple shared images from the grand opening experience this evening in a news
MANCHESTER, Sept 26 – Nothing sinister should be read into the disbanding of the Fifa task force on racism as it had simply achieved its goals, Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura said on Monday. The 54-year-old Senegalese – recruited to some surprise from the United Nations in May and the first woman and
