Articles on Payment, Hong Kong

iPhone 3GS launched in Hong Kong, rates announced - Jul 9, 2009

Blogs 3 Hong Kong has finally announced details on the new iPhone 3GS, which is going on sale tomorrow (July 10, 2009) at its major retail outlets. For details of the contract ... Read story »

To Mildred and Eddie Perez of Nueva Viscaya Philippines, LONG LIVE!!!! - Jun 3, 2009

Blogs I'm litterally wiping my tears becuase of this news article I have read. Below is the original article from Inquirer . Hope is a good a thing and I'm hoping that more people ... Read story »

Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5 with My Phone Premium - Oct 7, 2009

Features Offered as part of the premium package is a new "lost phone" feature that can be activated as an ad-hoc paid service. Read story »

American Visa credit cardholders, you may be innocent fraudsters! - Oct 3, 2006

Blogs American holders of Visa credit cards are being subject to intense security protocol in order to eliminate fraud in Southeast Asia, even in Hong Kong, confirmed a Chase Manhattan credit card ... Read story »

The new rival to Octopus Card--the Hang Seng enJoy Card - Dec 27, 2007

Blogs Last month, the Hang Seng Bank, Jardine Matheson and Visa jointly announced the launch of a co-branded credit card--the Hang Seng enJoy Card--the first credit card in Hong Kong to utilize ... Read story »

Hong Kong's Thomas Edison buying out PCCW? - Sep 20, 2007

Blogs This past Tuesday, while the local market was surging to its record high due to the US Federal Reserve cutting the benchmark rate by half a percentage point, the "Thomas Edison ... Read story »

Meet the Blonde Bimbo of the Smart Card Universe - Oct 25, 2007

Blogs Everytime I visit Hong Kong, I can't get over how ubiquitous the use of the Octopus card is. You can use Octopus for practically everything--from entering the Hong Kong Jockey Club ... Read story »

Finally, PayPal available in Indonesia - Oct 16, 2006

Blogs Good news hit Indonesia's cyberspace and blogosphere recently. PayPal is now available in Indonesia! This is a really good news for Indonesians to use this service for their online payment solution. ... Read story »

Open sesame--Alibaba - Oct 27, 2007

Blogs For this week, the biggest news in town has to be the Alibaba initial public offering (IPO). As reported today from The Standard Finance, Alibaba.com has already frozen HK$67.43 billion through ... Read story »

Government thinks QQ Coins not so QQute - Apr 1, 2007

Blogs Say you create an enormous community of Internet users who communicate with each other in an extensive virtual world. Then let's say you want to introduce a system by which those ... Read story »

Uniting Asians through online games - Oct 3, 2006

Blogs Five swords. Five heroes of the online gaming industry. It's somewhat fitting that Singapore firm Infocomm Asia Holdings (IAH) turned to movies for inspiration as it unveiled its ambitious plan to ... Read story »

The SIM card wallet - Oct 5, 2007

Features We had a chat with Jerome Sion from Gemalto, who envisions the SIM card as being a critical part of contactless payment technology in mobile phones. Read story »

mCommerce: Help or hindrance to Pinoy online shopping? - Aug 27, 2008

Blogs To be quite honest, I was never really into eCommerce. You see, I have a bad spending habit. And if I know I have money to burn, as is the case ... Read story »

Digital music: An Asia revival? - May 15, 2006

Features Because when it comes right down to it, we just want to jive to our tunes--minus the hassle. Read story »

Vodafone buys Hutch - Feb 13, 2007

Blogs %IMAGE=vodafone.jpg% World's second-largest mobile operator (largest by revenue), Vodafone has acquired a majority stake in India's fourth-largest operator Hutch. It will pay US$11.1 billion for a 67 percent stake, which values ... Read story »

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