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Dec 30 2011

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Every 60 Seconds On the Chinese Internet… [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Creative, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. There has been a bit of a fad on the internet in recent days for posts about amazing things that happen online in just one minute, and so the Chinese site 17Startup made one about the web scene in China. The numbers were so awesome that we felt it was worth whacking the infographic into an image editor in order to translate it into English. It shows that insane amounts of money - and a ...

Dec 23 2011

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Singapore’s Social, Smartphone-Luvvin’ Citizens [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 ...

Dec 20 2011

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Web, Smartphones, and Social Media are Thriving in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 15 2011

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Samsung Dominates Android in China, But Tablets Growing Less Popular [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Gadgets, Mobile, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. The Chinese mobile analytics company Umeng has released new stats which give us a clear picture of the Android user-base and the devices being used in China. It shows us that in Q3 2011 Samsung (005930.KS) and HTC (TPE:2498) dominated the Android scene here, together accounting for about 53 percent of all phone traffic detected by Umeng. Bizarrely, it also reveals that Android tablets have become less popular this quarter, with decreased usage from Q2 ...

Dec 14 2011

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LinkedIn Advises Users to Banish CV Buzzwords – Here’s Your Top 10, Singapore [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinBusiness, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Motivated. Dynamic. Innovative. Three much-used - indeed, overused - adjectives on many people’s CVs. There are other resumé regulars, too - such as “interpersonal skills,” “track record” - that have become cliché and tiresome, used unthinkingly, and which are blasts from the past that really ought to be avoided like the plague and used few and far between. D’oh! LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the business-oriented social network, has picked through the buzzwords on the profiles of its ...

Dec 12 2011

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Who Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 8 2011

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Social and Mobile, This is How India Enjoys the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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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The Ubiquity of Social Media and E-Commerce in China [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. The Asia-oriented branding and PR agency We Are Social has just released its report on all that’s happening in social, digital, and mobile in China. It’s a monster of a slideshow presentation, befitting the region’s biggest web and mobile users. Did you know that there are currently 10 million new internet users in China each month - adding to the ranks of Chinese netizens that are already more numerous than the populace of Europe - ...

Dec 1 2011

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A Portrait of Indonesia’s Very Young, Social, Mobile Web Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 ...

Dec 1 2011

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How Asia is Going Social, Mobile, on the Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Branding and PR agency We Are Social has created a vital and up-to-date overview of all that’s happening in social, digital, and mobile in Asia. It was made to answer some frequently reoccurring questions from its clients, and to give everyone a good-looking primer on what’s happening on the web in 24 nations across the region. The full 56-page presentation is available on the We Are Social site, and is recommended viewing. The team will ...

Nov 25 2011

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iOS Download Stats for China Show the Importance of App Localization [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Gaming, Mobile, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. New statistics showing the popularity of various free and paid iOS apps in China show the great importance of localization. And now that China is the second-biggest downloader of free - or freemium - iPhone and iPad apps, it’s even more critical to a game’s success that it comes with Chinese language translations throughout the app and download page. These stats from AppAnnie also highlight a strong desire in Asia for apps that have a ...

Nov 15 2011

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China’s Explosion in Weibo and E-Commerce Usage, Across the Social Divides [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, E-commerce, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 ...