Philippines-based Infinite.ly is an application built for brands and marketing managers to track social buzz about their companies (on Facebook and Twitter) all in one page. Co-founder Luis Buenaventura describes his startup as “a central hub for everything a small business owner needs to get started with their social presence.” The functions are very basic. Businesses can add in their Facebook and Twitter links and find all related @mentions on a single page. Users can also track conversations via search terms within the social sphere. I gave the product a try, ...
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For EA games, Online Payment in the Cards Thanks to MOL
MOL, Asia’s leading online payment provider for games and social networks, has announced that it has teamed up with Electronics Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) to provide prepaid game cards that can be used to buy virtual items in EA titles such as The Sims Social. The prepaid cards are now being distributed, MOL says, to 600,000 channels across Singapore, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand. They can also be redeemed for items within PlayFish games such as Pet Society, since PlayFish is a part of EA. A press release from MOL says that ...
Jan 3 2012
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Apple’s Chinese New Year Sales Go Online on Friday, in China and Across Asia
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is apparently keen to celebrate Chinese new year - more popularly known as Spring Festival here - with a “one-day Apple shopping event,” which we hope means ‘sale,’ on Friday, January 6th. As spotted by the 9to5Mac crew, this is running in the Apple online stores in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The Chinese online store (which is here), like all those others in the region, is running that promo artwork showing a dragon of colourful iPads with smart covers (pictured above). Yes, this ...
Dec 6 2011
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50 Million Users Strong, mig33 Announces Developer Program with GREE
“Knock knock,” mobile game developers. Here’s news not to be missed. If you’re snubbing the Asian market, it’s time to wake up and look at what’s happening in the mobile sector in Asia. mig33, the largest mobile social network in Southeast Asia, has just announced their developer platform with GREE, one of the largest mobile gaming companies in Japan. To put it simply, this is a great chance for mobile game developers to make some revenue by focusing what they do best — developing games. The mig33 social platform leverages on the ...
Jun 28 2011
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Groupon Rival LivingSocial Enters Thailand, Indonesia, and Philippines
There’s a new lifeline for many of the Groupon clones out there in Asia. LivingSocial just acquired Ensogo, DealKeren, and GoNabit, reported Reuters. The acquisition also pushes LivingSocial’s presence from 13 countries to 21. Ensogo first launched in Thailand in 2009, and eventually grew to be the largest group-buying site in the country. Ensogo then started its operations in Manila in July 2010, where again it repeated its homegrown success to be the top group-buying site in the Philippines. Ensogo also owns DealKeren, a popular group deal site in Indonesia. Thus, acquiring Ensogo ...
May 30 2011
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HOW TO: Make A Phone Call By Dialing A Name
If you agree that names are easier to remember than numbers, SpellDial is for you. Launched in January 2011, Philippines-based start-up, SpellDial, allows people to dial names instead of numbers when connecting through phones; In three simple steps: Step 1: Go to SpellDialer.com. Users have the option to save this as web app to your mobile homescreen Step 2: Spell/type the SpellDial name of the person you want to contact Step 3: Press dial, Press call I tried the service and thought it really kicked ass. Registration is simple with Facebook. All you have to key ...
May 18 2011
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Adobe Shares Creative Suite 5.5 Tips in Philippines, Malaysia and Sinagapore
We’re no designers but the folks at Adobe certainly are. The Adobe team is going around Philippines (11 May, yup it’s over), Malaysia (19 May) and Singapore (27 May) to share with Southeast Asians how to use Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 to: Design and develop rich browser based content for desktops or devices with the leading HTML5 authoring tools. Develop rich interactive applications for Android, Blackberry, and iOS with Adobe AIR, Flash Professional and Flash Builder. Create highly engaging magazines, corporate collateral, and advertisement including digital output and delivery through integration with the ...
Apr 28 2011
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iPad 2 Launches in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and India
Finally... The long-awaited iPad 2 is finally available in more countries in Asia. Japan will receive the iPad 2 today while another 11 countries will receive it tomorrow, 29 April. The countries include Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey and UAE. Notice India? Yup, Apple is launching the iPad 2 in the country even though it had recently just launched the first generation iPad 3 months ago. Apple faced pressure from competitors and also fans who expressed their disappointment as the iPad 1 was launched ...
Apr 24 2011
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Top 3 Facebook Nations in Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]
The biggest Facebook nations in Asia are Indonesia, Philippines and India and they account for more than 52 percent of all Facebook users in the continent. There are a total of 150 million Facebook users in Asia, according to SocialBakers. In other words, about 1 out of every 5 Internet user owns a Facebook account. Indonesia is also the second largest Facebook nation in the world, surpassing U.K a couple of months ago. As the number of Internet users in Asia continues to grow, Facebook will also rise with the trend. However, ...
Apr 13 2011
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Facebook Appoints Admax as Official Sales Rep in Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand
Admax has been appointed as Facebook's official advertising sales partner in Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, the Asia-based online ad network announced on its corporate website. Launched in 2006, Admax has offices in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It also claims to be the largest online advertising network in Southeast Asia. Note that regions like Hong Kong and Singapore are missing. That's because Facebook already has offices at these two locations. Appointing Admax would allow Facebook to quickly gain footing in Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. It's a smart move to ...
Feb 20 2011
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Google’s Strategy in Asia
We learned that Google is on a hiring spree this year. 6000 globally but what's the breakdown figure for Asia? We got it: Google plans to recruit more than 500 new googlers in Asia. The job ranges from sales to engineering. If you haven't already known, Google has recently launched a new sales office in Malaysia to further develop its business in South East Asia. With so many new googlers in Asia, what is Google up to? We managed to grab hold of Julian Persaud, Managing Director of Google Southeast Asia, to ...
Feb 9 2011
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Microsoft launches Office Web Apps in India and South East Asia
Six months since its beta launch and with more than 30 million users globally. Microsoft has finally introduced its Office Web Apps to more countries in Asia, including India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Microsoft Office Apps were already launched in China, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea last December and planned to make its cloud product available to the world by the end of March. Users can now access Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for free by logging in with their Windows Live ID. Similar to rival Google Docs, Microsoft Office ...
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