![The State of the Internet [INTERACTIVE]](http://www.penn-olson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/interactive-infographic-250x250.jpg)
The Internet is huge and Asia has played a big part in its growth. An interactive data chart created by OnlineSchools has revealed several interesting facts about the continent and presented them in pretty package: South Korea enjoys the world’s best broadband quality. You may recall a report by Akamai that we wrote about back in May which stated that the average speed in South Korea was 13.7 Mbps. Hong Kong and Japan ranked as the second and third regions with 9.4 and 8.3 Mbps respectively. In contrast the world average ...
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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 14 2011
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Javier Olivan Talks About Facebook In Indonesia [LIVE BLOG]
Hello from IDBTYE, Jakarta, Indonesia. The main course of the event has started with the first keynote by Javier Olivan, who is the head of international growth at Facebook. Today Olivan will be talking about Facebook’s international growth and platform overview in Indonesia. If you didn’t already know, Indonesia is the second largest Facebook nation with more than 35 million users in the country. #10:46: Opening sentence from Olivan: “I’m really happy and honored to be here in Indonesia.” Facebook started as a small start-up in Palo Alto and Olivan says that ...
Jul 12 2011
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Malaysian Prime Minister Under Facebook Rally Pressure
A Penn-Olson reader directed us to Malaysian Insider’s report on yet another case of Facebook outcry in Malaysia. This time around, more than 150,000 Facebook users in Malaysia have come together on a Facebook page, pressing for Malaysia Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to resign. The page, titled “100,000 People Request Najib Tun Razak Resignation,” is currently experiencing swarm of likes. Malaysia Insider noted that the Facebook page “has been attracting at least five “likes” per second, and it hit the 100,000 mark at about 3:50am this morning.” The speed ...
Jul 8 2011
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How To Reward Your Facebook Fans Offline
While there are many brands on Facebook, few of them are actually rewarding and connecting with their fans offline. How many of them are genuinely showing appreciation for fans that help spread their name farther? Not many. This is because there is a natural disconnect between reality and the virtual world of Facebook. Taggo, a Singapore-based start-up is trying to build a bridge between the two that allows brands to reward fans when they physically visit their stores. We met up with Aneace Haddad and Aaron Koh, the CEO and Business Development ...
Jul 7 2011
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Facebook Hiring Head of Public Policy for India
No matter how "snoopy" India might be, companies like Facebook understand the importance of this market for their business. That's why the popular social network is now taking its operations in the country one step further, hiring a Head of Public Policy for India. According to a job notice posted on its careers section: The Head of Public Policy, India will be the primary contact with the Indian government and policymakers and will advance our mission to make the world more open and connected. They will work closely with the Privacy and ...
Jul 7 2011
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Indonesia Airline Director is Victim of Facebook Hack, Friends Defrauded
Hackers are not just a problem for the Indonesian government and its websites (as we reported here recently), but they are also proving troublesome for Facebook and its users. The financial director of Indonesia’s Garuda Airlines, Elisa Lumbantoruan, had his Facebook account hacked. It wouldn’t have been such a big deal if only the hacker hadn’t used Lumbantoruan’s account to prey upon his friends! Through the account, the hacker contacted ‘his friends’ via Facebook chat and asked for his mobile phone’s credits. Many people fell for the scam and sent phone ...
Jul 7 2011
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How KFC Malaysia Handled a Social Media Disaster
We’ve been tipped off by @Askaaronlee on a recent social media disaster at KFC Malaysia that was caused by two scandalous videos of several KFC employees. But many might not have realized that such a big problem was brewing at KFC Malaysia since the fast food chain’s PR folks, in my opinion, did a pretty good job in handling the case. The social media disaster started last October when someone sent a video clip to KFC Malaysia that shows a staff member tampering with the food while preparing it. We did a ...
Jul 5 2011
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A Blog Post to Datuk Seri Najib on Social Media Marketing
This guest story is by Kent, who has been an online marketing consultant at Human Website Malaysia for the past seven years. You can connect with him on LinkedIn. I wrote this blog post because I care about the future of Malaysia. I would like to share some ideas on how to use social media more effectively to communicate and engage your people (Malaysians) and why there are problems in spending $1.8 million to build Tourism Malaysia’s Facebook pages. Prime Minister, Your Facebook Page Doesn’t Cut It I hope that you, Datuk, can understand ...
Jul 4 2011
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Apparently, China is Trying to Buy Facebook
Maybe it's decided that Facebook is the lesser of two evils when it comes to Western social networks. Maybe it's just Beijing buying itself a birthday present. Whatever the reason, it appears that China -- or more specifically, one of China's sovereign wealth funds -- is trying to buy a significant stake in Facebook. A Business Insider report cites "a source at a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees" who was approached directly about helping to put together a stake big enough "to matter" and "a second source tells ...
Jul 9 2011
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Top 40 Facebook Countries in Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Update: We made changes to the flags -- Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Facebook appears to be making some real progress in Asia. Back in February, we reported that there were 143 million Facebook users in the region. But now after five months, the figure has ballooned to 166 million, a 13.8 percent jump*. As Facebook approaches the one billion mark, Asia's growth will play a huge role in helping the platform reach that figure. With that in mind we ...
Jul 3 2011
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Tata Docomo, The First Brand in India To Run Twitter Ads
There are ways for brands to acquire fans legally and quickly on Facebook. And while Twitter has been a different story up until now, things may be changing.. We hear from the folks at Interface Business Solutions, a digital advertising firm in India, that the microblog is working to make follower acquisition possible. Google, for example, is one of the brands which has embraced ads on the microblog. A senior Twitter representative told Interface, “Currently my group is focused on working with the largest Fortune 1,000 brands globally. We also have a team ...
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