Groupon’s Chinese site is having a phenomenally tough time of late - reportedly today Gaopeng.com is laying off 25 percent of its staff, and we’re hearing rumors of it being unable to pay its Google and Baidu ads bills. The job losses are reported across the Chinese tech media, saying that 25 percent of staff are being axed at Gaopeng’s offices in smaller “tier three” cites and medium-sized “tier two” cities. Its operations in China’s largest cities seem unaffected, indicating that Gaopeng might need to focus on business in the country’s ...
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Made in India: SearchEnabler is a SEO Tool For Start-ups
If you have trouble with search engine optimization (SEO), you might want to check out SearchEnabler, a made in India search optimizer tool. All you have to do is to type your website URL, the keywords which you’re trying to optimize for, and select the Google Analytics option — and then you’re good to go. The diagnosis report will only show up after SearchEnabler has crawled your website. Once crawled, users are able to determine SEO key factors including the number of broken links, duplicated titles, pages with missing meta descriptions, ...
Jul 27 2011
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New Highs and Lows for Baidu, Google, in China Search Engine Market [INFOGRAPHIC]
Google.com.hk seems to be going down like a lead balloon in mainland China, with Google reaching its lowest ever ebb in the search-engine market in China. In Q2 2011, Google dipped to just under 20 percent in its search share here, while Baidu soared for the first time to just past the three-quarter mark, at 75.81 percent (see table and graph below). The unedifying news means that Google has lost nigh on half its market share since Q1 2009. A noticeable dip can be seen in mid 2010, when the Google/Gmail ...
Jul 25 2011
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Indonesia’s Online Property Platform ‘Bazarooma’ Launches
Bazarooma, a new Indonesian software company which claims to have ties in Europe has recently launched an online property marketplace to connect both landlord and buyers. While most property sites are cluttered and awful looking, this site which runs on Java and Ajax has a gorgeous design which is easy to the eyes (see below or simply head over to the site here). Here’s a quick run down on what it has to offer for property agents, businesses, and users in Indonesia: Search properties based on price, size, location and facilities Facilities ...
Jul 22 2011
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How Nokia Lost its Cool, and its Customers, in China
Nokia has been hit especially hard in its Q2 2011 results by China, where sales plummeted 41 percent year-on-year. It comes at a time when China's growing middle- and higher-income are buying smartphones and getting addicted to apps - but, it seems, they're mostly becoming iPhone or Android customers, abandoning Nokia. Where has it gone wrong for Nokia in China, from its heyday in the middle of the last decade when it was something of an aspirational brand? I'd say it comes down to three core points: Most devastatingly, Nokia hasn't ...
Jul 21 2011
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PayPal Uses Cheesy YouTube Videos To Promote Buyer Protection Policy
Are you shopping safely online? PayPal really wants you, Malaysians and Singaporeans, to understand more about its Buyer Protection Policy which protects buyers from online shopping frauds as long as you’re paying via PayPal. So, PayPal’s idea is a little wacky and daring. They launched a series of cheesy web videos on YouTube in response to posts written by 20 influential bloggers in Singapore and Malaysia. The campaign is titled “The Promise” - a way to communicate with viewers that Paypal’s Buyer Protection Policy promises this and this. Creative, fresh, bold… call ...
Jul 21 2011
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Chalkboard Opens Shop in U.S, Wants More Money
For some reason, being seen going to the U.S is a really cool thing for start-up founders here in Asia. Some founders ‘go west’ for stupid reasons — just for the sake of saying “I’m based in Silicon Valley,” it seems. But I don’t think Chalkboard, the location-based ad network, is one of those cases. Having spoken to their founders on a personal level - Saumil Nanvati and Bernard Leong - these folks are highly intelligent people who know their stuff and make good decisions. They started acquiring users and clients in ...
Jul 19 2011
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Mobile Ad Network ZestAdz Acquired By Komli Media
Digital media company Komli Media has acquired ZestAdz, a mobile advertising company based in Chennai, India. Komli Media announced today that with the acquisition of ZestAdz it will be able to offer digital solutions on the mobile platform. These will be separate from the already existing display, video, search, and social media solutions to it offers to agencies, advertisers and publishers. The mobile advertising industry is growing and Komli Media has strengthened its position by acquiring ZestAdz, which claims to deliver 5 billion ad impressions each month in around 20 key ...
Jul 18 2011
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Ben & Jerry’s Wants Singapore To Name New Ice Cream On Twitter
If you’re having trouble choosing a name for your new product, crowdsourcing one on Twitter could be your answer. There is also the added benefit of widespread discussion of your brand if you do it right on Twitter or Facebook. Ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has launched a Twitter campaign, titled “Milk Us a Flavor Name,” targeting Singaporeans to help choose a name for its newly launched ice cream. To participate, follow @BenJerry_SG and tweet your suggested name with the hashtag #Benjerryflavor. The first 500 people who tweet a suggested name to ...
Jul 15 2011
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Top 10 Interactive Indian Facebook Pages in June
Facebook is huge in India and will probably overtake Indonesia as the second largest user nation in the near future. With a massive number of users - 28 million of them - many brands are also employing the social network to use it as a customer engagement platform. So for the month of June, thanks to the folks at Buzzref, a Facebook page analytics tool, we look at some of the most interactive Indian brand pages on Facebook. Lord Ganesha took top spot for June, followed by MTV Splitvilla, and Meri ...
Jul 13 2011
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China’s Fortune 500 Companies See 38% Revenue Rise in 2011
Fortune China has revealed its Chinese Fortune 500 list of companies for 2011, revealing a 38 percent rise in revenues on the prestigious list compared to last year. Other headline stats are that China's top 500 raked in revenues totaling 18.9 trillion RMB, which accounts for 47 percent of China's GDP. Profits were up too - to 1.9 trillion RMB, a rise of 47 percent over last year's. China Mobile was the only web or tech company in the top ten. With 485.2 billion RMB (that's US$75 bil.) in revenue, the country's ...
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In 2011, China’s Factories Still Rife With Abuses and Awful Conditions [REPORT]
China Labour Watch (CLW), the not-for-profit organization that has monitored working conditions in China's factories since 2000, has just published its 2011 report on the persistent abuses at ten hi-tech manufacturing plants across that country. The factories produce gadgets for HP, Dell, Nokia, Motorola, MSI, Asus, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, and many other well-known brands. By interviewing dozens of workers at each of the ten factories - spread across China's two main industrial hubs in Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces - CLW got a clear picture of improving or deteriorating conditions, as well ...
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