Mobile now accounts for 49.7% of China’s retail ecomm sales
Retail mcommerce sales will reach USD 333.99 billion this year in China, according to eMarketer, up 85.1 per cent from 2014. This highlights that mobile...
Category: Asia
Burger King brings the heat to its menu — and social media for its ‘fiery chicken fries’
Burger King has realized that the best way to market to millennials is to bring the heat — both to its menu and to social media. The chain’s...
Mobile Marketing Driving Back-to-School Digital Shopping Surge
Mobile has never before played a more significant role in the growth of digital back-to-school shopping. According to the findings of a new survey, 89%...
Google creates the ‘Alphabet’ umbrella; names new CEO
In an interesting turn of events, Google has launched a new publicly traded parent company called Alphabet, which will include the search giant as one of...
Vietnamese are mobile first on Facebook
Out of 20 million Vietnamese who use Facebook every day, around 17 million access the platform daily on mobile, according to a TNS study. The...
Ban on a website? Here’s how you can beat it
The recent ban on porn by the government of India sparked countless arguments over a citizen’s right. India banned more than 800 websites. The country...
Switched on Media adds 12WBT to its client roster
Following a competitive pitch, STW’s digital marketing agency Switched on Media (SoM) has added the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation (12WBT) to its client...
The threat landscape runneth over, here’s what we need to do
After having slept, drunk and eaten at the recent RSA Conference Asia Pacific and Japan (RSAC APJ) in Singapore, Benjamin Cher gathers his thoughts and...
Malaysian angels expected to invest US$3mil over next 12mths
Malaysian Business Angel Network (MBAN) hopes that its members will make about RM10 million (US$2.6 million) worth of investments over the next 12 months, partly...
Week in Review: The startup and brick-and-mortar mashup
Lamenting the startup ecosystem’s lackadaisical attitude to high-tech plays, DNA founder Karamjit Singh believes that QEOS has done the right thing in uniting with an...
We should drop the term ‘big data,’ experts suggest
Teradata Corp CTO Stephen Brobst said that one of the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to big data is that they tend to...
#JonVoyage, RIP 301+, Time’s VR cover: What was in and what was out
Jon Stewart delivered his final moment of zen, capping off a week goodbyes. This week, YouTube finally ditched its weird 301+ view count on viral...
IoT Will Need Increased Broadband Speed, Better Coverage
For the Internet of Things (IoT) to really take off, it’s going to need a couple of things (at least): universally speedy broadband and coverage...
Samsung brings affordable line of Galaxy J series to Malaysia
New Galaxy J series aims to strike balance between price and performance Via DNA
DNA on BFM: Does owning technology matter?
In this week’s Tech Talk show on BFM Radio, Karamjit Singh is really struck by how an entrepreneur with no domain expertise was able to...
Mcommerce sales near $15 bn in South Korea
South Korean consumers will spend nearly USD 15 billion this year on retail purchases via their mobile device, according to an eMarketer estimate. In total,...
