Are you one of the lucky people going to ad:tech Beijing in November? Do you have any thoughts you’d like to share? If yes, we’d love to hear from you. At AsiaOnlineMarketing we are always looking for contributors to help grow our network across the Asia Pacific blogosphere. Unfortunately, none of the current members of [...]
It’s no secret that newspapers are in trouble. The massive shift from offline to online (of both consumers and advertisers), was compounded by the financial crisis, which seemed to speed up it’s demise. Many small publications have had to close shop, and many of the larger ones are having to seriously reconsider their business models. In fact, [...]
“It’s clear that the worst is behind us,” he said. “What we see at Google is some level of improvement and what is more important is we see it not just in the United States but outside the United States.” That’s what Eric Schmidt told Reuters in an interview last week. According to the article, [...]
Will China be the next Silicon Valley? Being an occasional traveler to China, I have always been awed by the speed of economic development in such a vast country. The online channel has develop at such a pace that China is currently home to around 253 million Internet users and in terms of unique visitors, [...]
Google Wave is due to be released at the end of this month… well to 100,000 invitees first. I’m sure a lot of you have seen the now infamous Google Wave demo at the Google I/O conference. If not, you can see it here, it’s long… but worth watching. Essentially, Google Wave resulted out of [...]
We recently blogged about the rivalry between Baidu and Google in their quest to take over the massive Chinese online search market. It appears this rivalry has taken another quite interesting turn. Largely down to the Chinese government putting some pressure on homegrown music services, to clean up their act… and link to licensed MP3 [...]
The Indian PM – Dr. Manmohan Singh is on facebook, which is a small step in the same direction as the giant leap taken by Barack Obama. Obama’s mastery of facebook and the internet is folklore but even Dr. Singh’s unprompted interest is an interesting development. This marks a small but important step. India politicians [...]
Last Friday, Google announced the departure of Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google China. Considering Kai-Fu’s popularity and talent, it is largely seen as bad news for Google in it’s quest to gain market share or claw some market share away from Baidu. So what next for Google? Kai-Fu has left the reigns in the hands [...]
On the back of a report by British Insurance firm Legal & General, ‘The Digital Criminal’… News.com.au had an interesting article last week about how Social Network users are likely to face higher Insurance Premiums on their homes. Why? Because of security risks posed by their open-ness on Social Networks. Sounds a little crazy doesn’t [...]
The Indian internet industry is growing faster than the regional average, albeit helped by a lower base to start with. There are a lot of success stories in the ecommerce space, but the leader of pack is an unlikely contender. It is the Indian railways - set up in 1853 and with all the trappings [...]