The luxury e-commerce site IhaveU has announced that it has wrapped up B-round funding, though the full investment sum has not been revealed. The injection of investment was led by the CID Group and JAFCO Asia. IhaveU.com is one of a number of luxury B2C Chinese e-commerce sites that focus on couture brand clothing - along with other independent rivals such as The Luxury Club, as well as high-end fashion stores from web giants such as Sina (NASDAQ:SINA). IhaveU sells both men’s and women’s clothing and pricey accessories, from the likes ...
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MediaPop App-ifies Facebook Pages With Its Social Marketing Dashboard
Singaporean startup Media Pop has launched a new service that makes it easier for brands, either big or small, to set up a social media campaign on Facebook. Its social marketing dashboard is, the startup says, a useful way for a company to engage users more effectively, with custom apps for offering giveaways and other enticements. The Media Pop service has four main apps that it then injects into the ‘Facebook Page’ of a brand: giveaways, vouchers, and photo and video competitions. And then all of this is managed mostly from ...
Jan 3 2012
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Top 10 Fan Pages: See Who is Rocking it on Facebook in Singapore
Christel is a social media strategist at Havas Media Singapore. Besides having worked on social media campaigns for DBS Bank and KLM Airlines, she has written posts for Social Media Today and conducted workshops in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. She observes marketing and social media trends on her blog and on Twitter. table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #0D66BE; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold;} RankPageFan count. And yes, there are more than a ...
Dec 13 2011
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China’s Top 50 Brands List Features 14 Tech Giants
The market research firm Millward Brown has just released the 2012 edition of its ‘BrandZ most valuable Chinese brands top 50’ report. It sees more Chinese tech firms that ever on the list, including well-known names in social media. Indeed, some tech brands are growing most quickly in terms of what’s called “brand value” - that’s a measure used by some analysts derived from a company’s ability to generate demand, based partially on forecasted earnings. The report’s authors note that “this explosion of value suggests the enormous influence that Chinese ...
Nov 24 2011
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LocalBrand Online Mall Launches, Providing a Cat-Walk for Indonesian Fashion Designers
After a beta rollout on August 17, now LocalBrand.co.id has officially launched, with a very apt cat-walk fashion show event (pictured below). LocalBrand is an online mall that focuses on high-fashion clothing. There are lots of e-commerce sites in Indonesia, but what differentiates LocalBrand from the others is that it only sells authentic fashion items made in Indonesia. In recent years, a great many young and bright Indonesian designers emerged and entered the industry, trying to take sales away from the usual global luxury brands. Indonesia has lots of local fashion ...
Nov 22 2011
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Going For Gold, 360Buy Launches a Luxury Brand Store, Called 360Top
360Buy, the Chinese B2C e-commerce site that’s currently in second place in that sector, has now diversified from its usual fare of books and electronics with a new venture - 360Top.com, which sells luxury brand cosmetics, handbags, and clothing for both men and women. You can even buy more ostentatious products, such as slabs of gold. It’s a major play in its battle against Alibaba’s Taobao Mall and other upcoming specialist online shopping sites. We rather saw this coming, after last month writing of rumors that the fast-growing e-commerce site was ...
Nov 16 2011
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Fashionandyou Bags $40 Million From Norwest, Intel, Sequoia, Nokia
I have been hearing a lot about Fashionandyou.com from some of my friends in India. It is one of the most socially savvy e-commerce sites in the country. Today, we have heard direct from the luxury fashion e-commerce company that Smile Group Venture and Goldsquare Sales India (the owner of Fashionandyou.com) have raised US$40 million, led by Norwest Venture Partners and also participated in by Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital India, and Nokia Growth Partners. Sequoia Capital India previously invested $8 million in Goldsquare in 2010. Fashionandyou currently has 2.7 million members and growing. ...
Nov 15 2011
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China’s Explosion in Weibo and E-Commerce Usage, Across the Social Divides [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Market research firm Synovate has some new insights into Chinese netizens usage of the web - how it differs between poorer and richer cities, that more people than ever in China go online on their mobiles, how e-commerce has exploded even in less prosperous cities, and that the internet has (for the first time) surpassed television in terms of engagement levels. It’s a part of Synovate’s Media Atlas China study, which surveyed 66,000 consumers across ...
Nov 9 2011
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Hubblr: A New Dashboard for Global Social Marketing – China Included
There are a lot of social media dashboards out there that try to bring together your social missives, but only one includes integration with China’s hippest social network - that’s Hubblr. It’s a brand-new, enterprise-oriented web app from an Australian start-up that’s aimed at making PR and online marketing across the globe - including China - a safer and slicker experience. Hubblr’s CEO and co-founder, Michael Lam (pictured right), gave me a guided tour over Skype, and then we coincidentally ran into each other again at TC Disrupt Beijing last week, giving ...
Oct 6 2011
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Apple is Most Improved Global Brand, But Where Do Asian Tech Companies Stand? [CHART]
Interbrand has just released its annual Best Global Brands Report, and not surprisingly Coca-Cola tops the list again. But here at Penn Olson we’re more interested in how the tech companies fared, specifically the ones from Asia. The report looks at a number of factors, including financial performance and the “strength of a brand to continue to secure earnings.” If we look at the global overview, only ten of the top 100 brands listed are from Asia. 52 are from the Americas (almost all from the US), and 38 are from ...
Oct 5 2011
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Baidu International Launches, Aimed at Global Brands
Baidu, in partnership with China Search International, is launching 'Baidu International' ad platform today, which it touts as a service "to help advertisers globally launch, manage and optimize on Baidu." Now, before you dismiss this news, think about what it represents. It is an opportunity for the world to throw ads at China’s 500-million-strong internet users. And like it or not, Baidu is one of the best channels to reach Chinese netizens as it controls a whopping 83 percent of the Chinese search market. The launch is essentially a partnership roll-out between ...
Sep 17 2011
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GaoJie Arrives Fashionably Late to the Luxury E-Commerce Party
China has yet another brand-specialist luxury e-commerce site, with the launch of the ‘High Street’ site at GaoJie.com today. It brings brands such as Coach, Guess, and Miss Sixty to Chinese online consumers, with lots of other licensed partners on board to provide plenty of high-end fashion options. The company behind GaoJie belongs to Li Yun, the former VP of Yoka, the fashion portal that is well known in the country as an MSN-China partner. Mr Li told the Chinese tech site DoNews today that the site was now ready to ...
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