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OxPay Financial is providing Malaysian-based retail BNPL company PaySlowSlow with payment gateway and merchant acquiring services in Singapore. Launched in September 2021, PaySlowSlow is a subsidiary of Australian company Fatfish Group. It allows retailers to offer their customers the option to buy now and pay, in four equal instalments over four months with 0% interest charged. All financial risks, including payment defaults are borne by the BNPL brand, and do not affect OxPay. Henry Tan, MD, OxPay, said: “We are happy to collaborate with PaySlowSlow for its Singapore operations. With the pandemic accelerating e- commerce volumes, consumers are increasingly turning to BNPL options to alleviate their financial pressures, as well as conduct their online transactions with greater ease and convenience.  "BNPL offers a tremendous and growing market opportunity for retailers and payment providers alike, and barring unforeseen circumstances, we...

Tenaga Nasional (TNB), the largest electricity utility in Malaysia, has collaborated with Capgemini and Google Cloud to design an enterprise-wide application programming interface (API) strategy, as well as implement Google Cloud’s Apigee API Management Platform. The more open digital backbone now provides the flexibility TNB needs to connect with the outside world, generate new revenue streams, and accelerate innovation. TNB serves a customer base of over 9.4 million citizens in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Labuan today. To remain responsive to the needs of its stakeholders and the marketplace, TNB was keen to modernise its technology infrastructure, which would enable the introduction of integration technology such as microservices, for example. In collaboration with Capgemini and Google Cloud, TNB updated its existing APIs, expanding its in-house digital capabilities, and explored non-regulatory revenue streams from API monetisation. Capgemini also facilitated a cultural...

24i, the video streaming specialist, has unveiled the latest version of its end-to-end streaming platform, 24i Mod Studio. The new positioning more clearly articulates the flexibility and modularity of 24i’s solutions for OTT, pay TV and broadcast customers.  24i Mod Studio brings together the company's existing solutions with the middleware and systems integration capabilities added through its acquisition of Nordija.  Mod Studio consists of a library of easily configurable, pre-integrated modules or “mods”. Each mod enables a set of key features, such as video ingest, transcode or network personal video recorder (PVR) functionality, to advanced recommendations and white label front-end apps for a range of connected devices.  24i CEO Joachim Bergman said: “Our mantra at 24i is ‘streaming made simple’ and our productised solutions are designed to improve speed to market and operational efficiency, while offering our customers a high-quality and future-proof user experienc...

NVIDIA is enabling enterprises to build their own domain-specific chatbots, personal assistants and other sophisticated AI applications. The company has unveiled the NVIDIA NeMo Megatron framework for training language models with trillions of parameters. The technology includes the Megatron 530B customisable large language model (LLM) that can be trained for new domains and languages, and the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server with multi-GPU, multinode distributed inference functionality. Combined with NVIDIA DGX systems, these tools provide a production-ready, enterprise-grade solution to simplify the development and deployment of large language models. The framework is optimised to scale out across the large-scale accelerated computing offered by the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. “Large language models have proven to be flexible and capable, able to answer deep domain questions, translate languages, comprehend and summarise documents, write stories and compute programs, all without ...

Varnish Software has launched Varnish 6 by Example , a guide to using Varnish 6 caching technology. The book covers both the open-source Varnish Cache 6 and the commercial software, Varnish Enterprise 6 . It builds on the existing The Varnish Book with updates on the latest features and functionality, and also emphasises the importance of content delivery strategy and edge-side decision making. The new book further includes tutorials for popular Varnish Enterprise applications, such as over-the-top (OTT) streaming, private content development network (CDN) deployments and 5G edge computing. Varnish Software said the book is suitable for those new to Varnish as well as readers who may be more experienced with the technology. IT and DevOps practitioners, decision makers and operations engineers, are part of the target audience. Thijs Feryn, Varnish 6 By Example author, said, “This book takes a deep dive into the technical features of Varnish and then goes further: it enco...

The Sydney-based global live event streaming specialist Corrivium has chosen Grass Valley’s GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) to stream high-profile virtual events at broadcast quality. GV AMPP replaced Corrivium’s original in-house system, which was built from discrete software applications from multiple vendors, with a fully integrated platform approach. The Grass Valley platform is being now used by Corrivium’s teams and has already covered a global event for a leading technology company. “During the last year, almost all physical events have moved to the virtual world. A consequence of streaming becoming centrestage in the events industry is that high-quality production values became more important than ever for our customers,” said Corrivium’s founder and director, Steve Jones. “Looking for technology that could produce the highest-quality event streaming, it was natural for us to seek solutions from broadcast technology leaders. The GV AMPP platform stood out to u...

Horangi , a Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company which provides solutions optimised for cloud-based organisations across Southeast Asia, will extend cybersecurity services in the region via Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace . Horangi Network Security Assessment, Horangi Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise , and Horangi ISO 27001 Certification Readiness Support are now listed in AWS Marketplace . Horangi is also one of the first Asia-Pacific companies to be awarded the AWS Security Competency . The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify AWS partners with deep industry experience and expertise. This milestone comes as Horangi updates its flagship platform Warden with identity &amp access management (IAM) capabilities. “Listing our cybersecurity services on AWS Marketplace enhances our ability to meet customer demand for effective cybersecurity solutions capable of boosting organisational digital risk postures,” said Paul Hadjy, CEO and Co-Founder at Horang...