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. ...
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Jul 20 2011
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Intel Supports Indonesian Youth Conference With Twitter Campaign
As one of the sponsors of the Indonesian Youth Conference 2011, Intel Indonesia was committed to spreading inspirational stories for young people. Through the company “Warnai Hidupmu” (Color Your Life) movement on Twitter, Intel persuades its @komunitasintel followers to use PC as a productivity and creativity tool. Several days before the conference, @komunitasintel started the initiative by conducting a live Twitter interview with Yoris Sebastian, a young entrepreneur who founded Oh My Goodness Creative Consulting agency. Yoris (@yoris) shared not only his hope for young people but also his experience ...
Jun 17 2011
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Intel Launches a Very Creative YouTube Campaign in Asia
Here's some great stuff we just caught here on an early Friday morning. It's a pretty awesome YouTube campaign launched by Intel Asia Pacific. Entitled “The Escape,” the campaign brings the audience through an adventure on YouTube with “custom-made” interactivity plus social network viral features. Surely the creators of this campaign over at Tribal DDB and DDB Hong Kong, have made some special arrangement with YouTube to enjoy this kind of customization. Once logged in, you are greeted with a mission brief and trailer which will subsequently lead you to a ...
Jun 15 2011
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Tencent To Add $772 Million To Start-up Investment Fund
Back in January we wrote about how Tencent had launched a five billion yuan ($772 million) fund to invest in technology start-ups and companies focusing on games, mobile, media, and e-commerce. To date, Tencent’s has made a total investment worth about 2 billion yuan. Some of these investment include U.S-based Riot Games, Huayi Brothers Media, and Elong, a China-based online travel company. But that doesn’t seem to be enough for Tencent as Bloomberg reported this morning that the Internet behemoth will allocate an additional five billion yuan to its investment fund. For the math-impaired ...
Jun 8 2011
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India Can Now Enjoy Bollywood Movies On YouTube For Free
India Bollywood lovers listen up! You can now watch Bollywood movies on YouTube for free. Under the YouTube Box Office channel, fans in India can watch both popular and new Bollywood movies every month. Unfortunately, IP address outside of India will not be able to access these Bollywood videos. More than 1,500 titles of Bollywood blockbuster movies are available in this channel. These films can be watched in full HD (1080p) and are made free because each film is inserted with a 15-second ads at every 10 minutes interval. The ads ...
Jul 29 2011
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Intel Taps Into Indonesia’s Blackberry Fever
For BlackBerry users in Indonesia, Intel has launched a local application called “Warnai Hidupmu” (Color Your Life). The application was developed by 7 Langit, a local BlackBerry application developer. What’s remarkable here is that Intel sees the marketing potential behind BlackBerry’s enormous following in Indonesia, so much so that it decided to launch a dedicated application for the popular handset. This application can notify BlackBerry users various information about Intel in six features. The Intel Updates feature gives info on Intel’s latest news and promotions. Get Powered Up! discusses the technologies ...
Apr 12 2011
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Intel and Tencent Partner on Research Center, Mobile Computing
Intel announced today that it will be partnering with Chinese company Tencent in strategic relationship that will focus on tablets and the consumer experience. The chip-maker’s Senior Vice President Renee James explained at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing that the company is moving further into the personal computing space with a focus on “delivering compelling user experiences across a range of personal computing devices.” According to The Wall Street Journal, Intel’s partnership with Tencent aims to create new innovations through mutual cooperation: Around 60 engineers from Intel and Tencent will also ...
Mar 20 2010
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Google Wants Ads On Your TV
The New York Times was the first to break the news of Google's newest business portfolio addition - The Google TV, a partnership between Google, Intel and Sony that aims to bring the optimal balance between TV and web leisure. This technology is supposedly built to help you navigate through social sites and web applications like Facebook, Twitter and Picasa, and to perform web search in a breeze, all while watching your favorite TV programs. Though it is true that this service isn't something new, Google TV plans to differentiate itself through ...
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Top 10 Most Engaging Brands on the Web
Which brands are the champions of Social Media? Charlene Li, Analyst from Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group has the answer. A study on brands' social media engagement was conducted on the top 100 brands featured on BusinessWeek's "Interbrand Best Global Brands 2008" publication. This study spans across more than 10 social media sites such as Facebook, Wikis, Forum, Flickr and content distribution sites such as Facebook Connect and ShareThis. Before we show you the top 10 brands, you might want to briefly understand how companies go about gaining engagement credits. Companies only ...
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