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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Singapore has always punched above its size in the world’s economy, and so it’s no surprise that its citizens are so wired and engaged with gadgets and social media. Indeed, the island state has the highest concentration of smartphones anywhere in the world, and over three-quarters of its citizens access the web every single day. Singaporeans are social on the web, too, with people there spending about one hour each day engaging with other folks ...
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Japan and Korea Rule the Internet, Facebook Taking Full Advantage
Singapore’s WeAreSocial has whipped up two new reports on the internet in Asia, this time featuring Japan and Korea. For anyone looking for a broad overview of internet developments over the past few years in these two uber-wired nations, check out these presentations below. For the Japan report, there are a few facts and figures that make that market unique : Mobile penetration is 100 percent There are 98 million mobile internet subscribers 37 percent of Japan’s internet users play online games Slide 12 on social networks in Japan could use an asterisk though, ...
Dec 20 2011
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Web, Smartphones, and Social Media are Thriving in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Across Asia, countries seem to be split into those who’re well hooked-up to the high-speed web, and those who access instead from mobiles and PC cafés - with only mainland China somewhat torn between those two states of being. But in the Greater China area, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau are certainly in the first group - enjoying high rates of internet penetration on an uncensored web whilst also having over 100 percent phone ownership, ...
Dec 12 2011
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Who Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are areas that don’t get too much coverage in the tech press - but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t interesting phenomena in the way its web and tech scene are developing. Vietnam is especially one to watch, with a fledgeling start-up scene empowered by game-development successes that are attracting a lot of investment from Japan. Across these three countries, mobile is proving especially revolutionary - getting people not just talking, but ...
Dec 9 2011
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Dentsu Partners with Japan Post to Send Christmas Cards Via Facebook
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu (TYO: 4324) has partnered with Japan Post Service Co. Ltd. to develop a Facebook page/app which enables users to send each other physical greeting cards without knowing the recipient’s actual address. It’s called Postman, and you can access the service by going to facebook.com/postman.jp. As you might expect, the services is not free, and card prices are (as far as we can see) all under 630 yen. There are cards for Christmas, New Year, birthdays, weddings, as well as fun Japanese art designs like Ukiyo-e. You ...
Dec 8 2011
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Social and Mobile, This is How India Enjoys the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. India and China are often mentioned in the same breath, as Asia’s powerhouse economies. But on the web, the two countries are developing very differently, with India’s younger demographics - half the nation is under the age of 25 - making the best of poor broadband infrastructure by going online and engaging in social media on their mobiles instead. And that’s great, because the web needn’t be trapped inside a weighty, underpowered old desktop ...
Dec 6 2011
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As India Pushes For Ban on Offensive Content, Facebook Responds
India’s communications minister Kapil Sibal today affirmed the nation’s intent to ban offensive online material, after making requests to internet companies such as Facebook, Google and other internet companies to control their distribution. The AFP quotes Sibal as saying: Three months back we saw that Google, Yahoo!, Facebook had images which could be an insult to Indians, especially religious-minded people … We told them to find a way that such insulting images are not uploaded. We gave them some time … but there was no response. He added that the internet ...
Dec 1 2011
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A Portrait of Indonesia’s Very Young, Social, Mobile Web Users [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Indonesia’s web users are remarkable in that they tend to be very young, social, and mobile. To celebrate this, the first We Are Social country-by-country report of 24 nations across Asia focuses on Indonesia. And here it is. Coming after last week’s Asia-wide analysis, this time we get a clear portrait of how more than half of Indonesia’s internet users are younger than 20 years of age, and that 66 percent of all desktop web ...
Nov 30 2011
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Social Gaming Veterans SNS+ Raise $12.2 Million For Its Asia-Focused Titles
The social gaming publisher and distributor SNSplus - aka SNS+ - has wrapped up a round of funding worth US$12.2 million that was led by WI Harper Group and Matrix Partners. SNS+ makes games - many of which are on Facebook - mostly for Asian markets; it’s based in Taiwan and also has two offices in mainland China and one in Thailand. Along Chang, the CEO of SNS+, said the injection of funds would be used to “increase the influence” of the company going forward. SNS+ already has 60 social gaming ...
Nov 25 2011
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Japan’s Virtual Star Hatsune Miku Invades CyberAgent’s Pico World
CyberAgent America’s (a subsidiary of Tokyo-based CyberAgent) Pico World is already going strong over on Facebook, and today the virtual world recruited a big attraction that should help it even more among fans outside Japan. Today the company announced a collaboration with Crypton Future Media to bring its famous Hatsune Miku into Pico World. Readers may recognize the iconic character from the Vocaloid voice synthesizing application and her subsequent cultural rise that has included virtual concerts around the world (see video below) as a high-tech stage projection. Needless to say she has legions ...
Nov 23 2011
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Social Games Big in Asia, But How are They Doing in India?
We’ve written much here on this blog about social gaming in Asia, particularly in China and Japan. But we don’t hear too much about the social gaming space in India. Today we’re hearing from MOL, Asia’s leading e-payment provider for games and social networks, that social gaming is ‘experiencing huge growth’ in that country. MOL India says about half of the nation’s Facebook users play social games. They say that this is about 10 million social gamers, although user metrics for Facebook are never easy to nail down (SocialBakers says 38 ...
Nov 10 2011
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Facebook: India to be Number 1 User-Base Soon, With Booming Mobile Usage
Facebook’s VP for mobile, Vaughan Smith, has expressed his great confidence in India, saying that the country will likely rise to be Facebook’s number one user-base in the coming years. He added: Currently, it is at number three in terms of number of users. Last announced number was 30 million for India and 45 million for Indonesia. I’m sure India will be number one in the coming years. We recently looked at an infographic detailing all the Facebook-luvin’ nations in Asia and saw that the Asia-Pacific region has 26 percent ...
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