Interbase Resources appoints CardPay as its online payment service provider for credit card

Interbase Resources or commonly known as LELONG agreed to use CardPay payment solution, staretd this year. CardPay is an international online payment system provider which has set up sales and operation office recently in Kuala Lumpur to capture Malaysia E-Commerce market. This partnership enable the users of Interbase Resources online market place to pay online via Visa and MasterCard for any goods, including electronics, appliances, books, DVD, perfumes and other products

Now Malaysian can purchase virtual good for Electronic Arts and Playfish social games easily

Recently, MOL AccessPortal Sdn Bhd (MOL) has formed partnership with Electronic Arts (EA) to distribute prepaid game cards which can be use to purchase virtual goods for EA and Playfish social games  such as The Sims Social, Pet Society, Restaurant City and EA Sports Fifa superstars.The said prepaid game cards will be distributed via online system and retail channel including 7-Elevem stores, cubercafes which MOL affiliated and Maybank2u.

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AsiaPay also in debit payment war zone now

AsiaPay, one of providers of Internet and mobile payment services and technologies in Asia has launched "PayDollar Debit" payment services which enable merchants to accept and collect online real-time debit payments from consumers in Asia, Australia and New Zealand via bank accounts, debit cards, e-wallets and prepaid products.

This comprehensive payment services can process payments from China UnionPay, AliPay, 99Bil, PPS, FPX, BancNet, Globe GCash, Smart Money, POLi, Bangkok Bank, Bank of Ayudhya, TMB Bank, United Overseas Bank, Siam Commercial Bank and Krung Thai Bank account holders.

Since AsiaPay also operated in Malaysia, local merchants able to utilize AsiaPay services to target other countries debit account holders.Will this create challenges to local payment service provider like iPay88 and MOLPay?

Please click here to view the press release of PayDollar Debit Payment

Malaysia Broadband Penetration Rate Increased to 62% last year

The broadband penetration rate in Malaysia was increased from 54 percent in 2010 to 62% lasy year which means 400 million households are subscribing broadband services. The local government forecasted that the penetration rate will reach 75% by 2015.

The broadband penetration rate is relatively low (below 50%) in the states such as Pahang, Kelantan, Sabah and Sarawak. The government is putting effort in building necessary infrastucture in the mentioned states such as set up wireless Internet (WiFi) village. In fact, there are 1,400 WiFi villages in the country, mostly in the state of Perlis, Sabah and Sarawak.

The government has allocated a total of RM1 billion for "a Malaysian laptop" program. Under this program, the government want to give 100 million of laptops to the student, to boost up the broadband penetration in Malaysia. Believe the execellent service will bring huge economic boost, including to enhance competitiveness, strengthen the confidence of domestic and foreign investors and also acts as a transmission medium for information and knowledge. 

Reference: ChinaPress

The lowest cost to start selling online

Believe a lot of want to start their own online business to gain some extra or part time income. But, initial capital may become the first obstacle to the new e-entrepreneur. If you want to sell products online, definitely you need to source some products from the supplier for online selling and capital required here, unless the supplier willing to support you by offering information and special pricing without asking you to stock in first. I would say it hardly to happen provided the supplier is your relative or good friend.

Without capital, can I still start selling online and make some passive income? The answer is YES.

How? 

Selling E-book is your choice. An electronic book or e-book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both and produced on published through and readable on computer s or other devices. You can write, publish and sell your own e-book through online. The investment is your time only.

What to write?

Try to write something that you think people will read - this is called market demand, such as "how to stop smoking", "how to lose weigh" and please don't write about your lifestyle! Who want to know more about you? Unless you are politicians, sportmen or celebrities. The languages of the e-book doesn't matter and of course English version of e-book will have bigger market compared with other languages.