GEORGE TOWN, Sept 13 – Gentlemen’s Run 2016 to be held at Gurney Paragon Mall here on 25th September 2016 (Sunday). This was the second charity fun run which organised by Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital. It was the 4km run with a new exhilarating theme with targeting a total of 2,000 participants
SEOUL, Sept 12 – HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion in a move aimed at “disrupting” the dusty and stale printing industry. The deal will see Samsung’s Printing Business Unit spun out independently, with HP picking up full 100 percent ownership in the business. The companies estimate it will take one year
HONG KONG, Sept 12 – CENTRESTAGE, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s (HKTDC) new fashion brand promotion and launch platform, ended Saturday (10 September) on a high note. The four-day (7-10 September) international fashion event welcomed some 200 fashion brands from 20 countries and regions showcasing their latest fashion collections.
JAPAN, Sept 12 – Toyota Motor Corporation has installed stationary pure hydrogen fuel cells at the energy management facility which had been completed at its Honsha Plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, in August 2016. The fuel cells started operations on September 12. Toyota is progressing with initiatives toward the
Independent publishers are terrified of platform dependency these days, and for good reason: According to Parse.ly, Facebook is the No. 1 source of traffic to their sites. Facebook and Google together account for 65 percent of digital ad revenue, according to Pew’s State of the News Media 2016 report. To put that in perspective,
AMSTERDAM, Sept 12 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has been chosen by Market Pay, payment institution of the world’s second biggest retailer, to deploy a mobile payment solution for its “PASS” banking card in Spain. This project is part of a multi-channel strategy that
Samsung has made a significant move among its leadership ranks after Jay Y. Lee, son of company chairman Kun-Hee Lee and its expected future leader, was nominated to the company’s board. Jay Y. Lee has long been tipped as heir apparent to Lee Kun-Hee, who grew the company into the giant it is today but
TOKYO, Sept 12 – Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Frontech Limited today announced the addition of two new products – the FUJITSU Biometric Authentication PalmSecure-F Pro, which is a sensor that can be embedded into equipment, and the FUJITSU Biometric Authentication Palm Vein Authentication Board – to their line of palm
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 12 – DEAN was having his signing autograph ceremony today at Gurney Paragon to released his new album – [130 Mood:TRBL]. It was the first time ever, DEAN was making an appearance at George Town for a performance. There were around 3,000 over crowd lining up on Sunday evening to support DEAN. Before DEAN’s official
SELANGOR, Sept 12 – The Nightscape of Light Sensation: Love Series is an unique, colorful and mesmerising event which was held from 7 to 17 September 2016 (5:00pm to 12:00am) at Malaysia Agro Exposition Park, Serdang (MAEPS) with total of 30,000 Light Emitting Diode (LED) white roses and 708 handheld LED roses
Too lazy to read your tweets? Now, Amazon Alexa can just read them to you instead. Yes, that’s right: Twitter today has launched an app for Amazon’s voice platform Alexa, which means you can listen to the latest from Twitter right on your Echo speaker or other Alexa-powered device. The new app can
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has finally weighed in on the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, issuing its own statement urging users not just to be careful, as the FAA did, but to “power them down and stop using or charging the device.” Samsung preemptively recalled the device after reports of spontaneous combustion, which the manufacturer blamed
ZURICH, Sept 10 – FIFA on Thursday dismissed appeals by Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid against a ban on registering new players in the next two transfer windows for irregularities in the signing of foreign players under 18. Real, who called the ruling “profoundly unfair”, and Atletico were also fined 360,000
When Apple announced the iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 earlier this week the company said pre-orders would start Friday September 9th, which in recent years has meant as early as 12:01am Pacific Time or 3:01am Eastern Time on the 9th. This year is no different, as the company just flipped the switch on its retail website as well
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 – The ringgit is expected to trend lower against the US dollar next week in anticipation of a possible interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve. Affin Hwang Investment Bank Vice-President/ Retail Research Head Datuk Dr Nazri Khan Adam Khan said most Asian currencies would also trend
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 – Touch ‘n Go Sdn Bhd (TnG) plans to launch a digital application that will enable cashless transaction between customers, small retailers and stall traders in the first quarter of next year. CEO Syahrunizam Samsudin said this will allow the electronic payment service provider to tap the segment which
PETALING JAYA, Sept 9 – Developers are now required to install mosquito traps at all new housing projects following the detection of zika cases in the country. Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar said the requirement must be met before any new developer’s licence is approved. “We
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 – The Education Ministry has refuted reports which went viral on social media that that the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) Bahasa Melayu 2 papers contained racist questions. In a statement Thursday, the ministry said investigations carried out by the Examination Syndicate (LP) found that the questions were
BANGKOK, Sept 9 – The emergence of new broadcasting platforms such as Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Over-The-Top (OTT) and mobile TV, in addition to traditional players such as analogue terrestrial TV, cable, and satellite TV, makes it a challenging time for the television industry in Thailand. Under these conditions, the
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 9 – Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-Operatives and Consumerism to conduct checks and take action against wet market traders using inaccurate mechanical weighing scales (with dial indicators on both sides of the machine) to short-weigh consumers. Its president S.M. Mohamed
