Media Asia have an interesting article about Baidu, China’s largest Search Engine, making Mobile Search a ‘strategic focus’ for the future. I think that sounds about right, Baido needs to launch some innovative mobile apps quickly to maintain it’s head-on battle with Google on the Chinese Search front. “There are 150 million WAP users in [...]
The Economist has a great article about how Asia’s emerging economies are bouncing back from the economic recession… It appears that very few forecasters could have predicted the scale of recovery seen by the Asian markets, and the Economist delves into the detail to identify the why’s, the how’s and the sustainability of such growth [...]
I wrote last week, about some strange rumors regarding Dell releasing an Android powered phone in the Chinese market. Well as it turn’s out these rumors were true and The Register has some images to prove it… The device is called Dell Mini 3i, and on the face of it it looks like your average [...]
While news on the Internet has been focused on the darlings of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, mySpace and Friendster, the size of the non-English speaking markets cannot be ignored. China with approximately 298,000,000 Internet Users (source: InternetWorld Stats), represents 45.8% of the Internet population in Asia. These Internet users are hungry for the [...]
I recently read a great essay by Chinese VC & Blogger, Isaac Mao. The essay, translated in English on Joi Ito’s blog, is a must read for anyone involved in the world of online marketing and the rapidly increasing trends of web2.0 and social media. The essay is well written and is a light read [...]
You know the importance of social media when the Singapore government starts using it. For the first time, the National Day Rally will be using social media to reach out to more people – especially targeting the youth. The National Day Rally will be available on ndr09.channelnewsasia.com and users will be able to engage in [...]
Yahoo announced that it is establishing direct sales team in Malaysia and Philippines to work on local and regional campaign. Is the online market finally starting to sprout and mature in these markets, requiring more support locally? The regional team is currently based in Singapore. Click here for more details
This is the strangest news I’ve read today. TechCrunch is reporting that Dell is about to launch a mobile phone in China. Not only that, but the OS is rumored to be the open-source OS from Google, yes you guessed it: Android. I find this strange for a number of reasons… First, why is Dell [...]
According to both Mumbrella and SmartCompany, PriceWaterHouse Coopers has just issued out a report commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)… that states Online Advertising spend has grown by 18.5%. I don’t think it comes as much of a surprise that this is mainly due to a shift from traditional media to online advertising mediums… [...]
So… looks like Microsoft got a great deal from their latest spin-off. After acquiring the ad agency RazorFish several years ago, they are now in the process of finalising a deal with the mega agency group Publicis. The blogosphere has been buzzing with the rumored deal of Publicis buying RazorFish for 500-600 Million US$. However, [...]