Singtel Goes On Mini Ad Tech Buying Spree; Acquires Adconion and Kontera For $359m
Amobee, a subsidiary of Singtel, announced this morning it was acquiring Adconion and Kontera for $150m and $225m respectively. The Adconion deal is understood to...
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Dave McClure’s 500 Startups hits 750 investments
500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure was in Kuala Lumpur last week and spoke to DNA founder Karamjit Singh about his investment approach and the...
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SingTel’s Amobee to buy Adconion, Kontera for USD 235 mn
Digital advertising company Amobee is all set to acquire Adconion Direct North America and Adconion Australia as well as Kontera Technologies to strengthen its position...
With ‘Kun’, IDP takes kids marketing a notch up in Vietnam
To launch a children’s ready-to-drink dairy brand, IDP, with its agency JWT Vietnam, has created an animation based franchise that includes an ongoing epic story,...
Post Spinoff, Time Inc.’s Fate May Boil Down To Video Ads
Time Inc. is in a tough spot after its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. It begins its run as an independent public company saddled with...
The Cautious Courtship Of Programmatic And Linear TV
Procter & Gamble’s reported push to automate 70-75% of digital ad buys by year’s end underscores the convergence of TV, CPG marketing and programmatic media....
Placed Lands $10M In Series B Round
Location analytics startup Placed announced today $10 million in a Series B funding round led by Two Sigma Ventures, bringing its total to $13.4 million....
AppNexus CEO: ‘There’s no global body for ad tech, it’s something we’ve thought about’
In the second part of a two-part interview with ExchangeWire, Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus co-founder and CEO, explains some of his thoughts on how the ad...
Facebook Poaches PayPal President to Head Up Mobile Messaging
Facebook has just poached PayPal’s president, David Marcus, to be its VP-messaging products, a new role at the company. The hiring of a seasoned mobile-payments...
Taking robotics research to the next level a challenge
Because of the large number of patients and a lack of therapists, stroke patients usually don’t have the chance to get enough rehabilitation for a...
Telco Deep Dive: LTE’s elusive business model
On May 26, Digital News Asia (DNA) released its first Deep Dive report, which looked at the telecommunications space in Malaysia. In this article, Edwin...
London’s Boris Bikes go extreme in #JoinTheFight stunt campaign
Pro cyclists are using London’s Boris Bikes for the their latest marketing stunt — literally. The bikes, which officially go by the more clunky “Barclays Cycle Hire,” have...
Tango Finds Engagement Actually Enhanced by Ads in Their Messaging App
The conventional wisdom has always held that, when it comes to P2P apps, most users are too busy in their media experience to be distracted...
8 bn will watch FIFA World Cup: An insight into global audiences
IPG Mediabrands’ sports analysis division, Futures Sports & Entertainment has put together a summary of FIFA World Cup 2014 global TV audience predictions. An econometric...
The emotional push for Unilever’s Comfort
Taking a cause or a human relationship that connects has been big with Unilever brands. The idea can be seen once again in a new...
