Carama out to build trust between car owners and mechanics
A billion-dollar company has taken it upon itself to improve the levels of trust between consumers and their friendly neighbourhood workshops. And it has taken...
Category: Asia
Inside the BBC’s visual journalism unit
The lines between digital video and TV are blurring to the point of going away at the BBC The BBC’s two-year-old visual journalism unit services...
Do You Fully Understand the Art of Engagement Marketing?
Marketo recently released a white paper entitled The 7 Principles of Engagement Marketing and, to that end, published a corresponding piece at VB about this...
Automotive online classifieds market heats up with MyEG entry
Malaysia’s automotive online classifieds market, currently dominated by established portals such as Carlist.my and oto.my, is expected to heat up with the entry of a...
SecQ.me founder James Khoo quits the startup life
James Khoo of personal safety app startup SecQ.me, who is leaving the company he founded more than three years ago and will be looking for...
China’s Single’s Day bonanza: Going beyond numbers to trends driving 2015
The headlines numbers for this year’s Single’s Day (11 November) sales in China are, again, very impressive. More than CNY 57.11 billion (up 60 per cent y/y)...
MOL Global postpones Q3 reporting, CFO quits, shares plunge
Nasdaq-listed MOL Global Inc, which had a dismal debut on the stock exchange, announced it would delay reporting its third quarter 2014 financial results and...
HotelQuickly out to disrupt online hotel bookings in Malaysia
After successfully raising a second round, HotelQuickly Ltd, a Hong Kong-based company that helps travellers book hotel rooms in the last minute, is geared for...
New opportunities ahead as mobile onliners set to reach 173 mn in India
Following the unprecedented rise in the mobile consumers in India, internet is expected to witness its next wave of consumers through the mobile device, according...
Isobar appoints Sven Huberts as its APAC Regional MD
Isobar has named Sven Huberts as Regional Managing Director, Isobar Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore and reporting to Jean Lin, Global CEO Isobar, Mr Huberts...
Yahoo’s acquisition spree adds Cooliris to the mix
After barely a fortnight of bringing programmatic video ad platform Brightroll into its fold, Yahoo has now acquired start up photo app maker Cooliris. Founded...
Remarketing: Crossing the lines between relevance & nuisance
Are you constantly notified with an automated advertisement of a product or a service that you may have checked on earlier? This marketing strategy, termed...
No names please: Hilton’s discrete approach to data-driven marketing
All hotel guests expect a certain level of discretion, but they’ve also grown accustomed to a certain level of personalized service. And that service is...
Week in Review: Will funding floodgates open in 2015?
Karamjit Singh finds himself disagreeing with Dr V. Sivapalan over how 2015 will shape up from an investing point of view. What do you think?...
Made-in-Malaysia platform out to solve the SME tech dilemma
Mercado has launched its homegrown cloud-based platform which offers a suite of business applications built on top of Microsoft Corp’s Office 365, saying it wants...
More Turkey, Stuffing and Mobile Sales, Please
According to new research from Adobe, mobile sales on Thanksgiving day this year are expected to increase to 31%, up a whopping 10% from last...
