New GoBear search engine gets you the bear essentials on financial products

New GoBear search engine gets you the bear essentials on financial products 1

There’s something just short of the discomfort and agony of a root canal and that pain is in comparing financial products like travel insurance or credit cards. Sorting through the legalese is one thing, comparing what amounts to apples versus oranges is another. Fortunately, there’s something new that helps to mitigate the pain somewhat –…

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PropertyGuru shares revamped mobile app and key local insights

PropertyGuru shares revamped mobile app and key local insights 2

According to real estate site PropertyGuru, despite an economy in the doldrums, Malaysians are still keen to invest in property. According to the burgeoning site, which now has 42% market share in Malaysia and a presence in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, some 83% of Malaysian buyers are in the market for new projects and…

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[REVIEW] Freeblade – In the grim dark future there are only giant stompy robots and quick time events

[REVIEW] Freeblade - In the grim dark future there are only giant stompy robots and quick time events 3

  In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, so goes the popular tagline in Games Workshop’s titular post dystopian Warhammer 40,000 game universe and at the pace of games that they are releasing, there’s plenty of fighting to go around. That’s no surprise either seeing the setting. The Warhammer 40K…

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Zyllem Malaysia is serving up same-day deliveries and a slick app experience

Zyllem Malaysia is serving up same-day deliveries and a slick app experience 4

If you need to send a package in a hurry or need to make an extra dime, you’re in luck as Zyllem Malaysia’s stepped up to the game by augmenting their existing system with an app that makes it truly mobile. Originally a Singapore start-up named Rocket Uncle, Zyllem sought to expand its presence regionally…

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Celebrate 11street’s anniversary with deals galore and exciting Celcom Xpax deals

Celebrate 11street's anniversary with deals galore and exciting Celcom Xpax deals 5

Online e-mall 11 street celebrated its one-year anniversary with a blitzkrieg of amazing deals and a grand carnival-style celebration at the Nu Sentral mall under the overall theme of 11street‘s Shocking Deals to Life. To reward loyal customers, 11street CEO Hoseok Kim shared their revamped Shocking Deals section that is optimised for their mobile app…

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Need a courier or want to be one? The new ezyCourier app will sort you out

Need a courier or want to be one? The new ezyCourier app will sort you out 6

It’s been said that there will eventually be an Uber-style business model for everything under the sun. Now, you can add peer-to-peer courier services to that list too. The ezyCourier service, which already exists in Hong Kong and Vietnam but has now made it to Malaysia allows anyone to be a courier. You interact with…

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[Free Stuff] WhatsApp is now free. Yay?

Image of a phone with WhatsApp installed

If you’ve been hard up paying a dollar a year to use WhatsApp on your phone, you may now rejoice: WhatsApp announced in their blog that they’re now free: “That’s why we’re happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees. For many years, we’ve asked some people to pay a fee for…

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SKRWT perspective correction app has arrived for Android

SKRWT perspective correction app has arrived for Android 7

Once exclusive to the iPhone, SKRWT, pronounced oddly enough as “screw it” is now finally available on the Google Play Store.   Rather than covering old ground like other photo editing apps that fix contrast and colour settings or applying filters and whatnot, SKRWT does something far more powerful and interesting: perspective correction with an…

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