Week in Review: Leveraging public funds to raise private money
1337 Venture’s Bikesh Lakhmichand did something Karamjit Singh has not seen any entrepreneur do before: Return funds to the Government … but not before leveraging...
Category: Asia
Post-Snowden revelations, action still a long way away
More than a year after the Snowden revelations, how have policy-makers, regulators, businesses, and users responded? Gabey Goh reports from the IGF in Istanbul. Via DNA
World Kabaddi League awards media mandate to Havas Media India
Havas Media India has been awarded the integrated media mandate for World Kabaddi League (WKL), in a multi-agency pitch. The account is estimated to be...
Innocean assigns programmatic trading responsibilities to Affiperf
Havas’ Affiperf signs exclusive global partnership with Innocean to handle all of its programmatic trading. A partnership announced between Affiperf – Havas’ programmatic pure-player –...
MTS India retains Havas Media Group as partner agency
MTS India’s integrated media business has yet again been awarded to Havas Media Group India, following a multi agency pitch which included all the top...
Hootsuite pushes social media marketing, launches Hootsuite Campaigns
Social relationship platform, Hootsuite, has come up with Hootsuite Campaigns, designed to help organisations extend the reach of social media programs. It follows the company’s...
A deeper look into Malaysia’s Big 3 mobile telcos in 1H2014
DNA editor Goh Thean Eu looks at the first half performance of the three major celcos in financial year 2014, where DiGi is turning the...
Malaysia’s Sinar Project wins regional award, seeks to level up
Sinar Project, which uses open technology and applications to make information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people, won an ISIF Asia Award at...
Pitch deck: BitTorrent is wooing advertisers, publishers
BitTorrent, the company behind the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, has a bit of a branding challenge. Allegedly responsible for as much as a third of all...
U.S. Indoor Location Based Search Could Grow 45%
It’s the latest — and it’s growing. The number of places served by indoor Location Based Search providers is increasing at a rapid pace and...
Inside Microsoft: A peek into the heart of an empire
Microsoft, once dominant but now the underdog, seems to be in its own bubble Via DNA
Engineering software talent gap an issue in SEA: Altair exec
Although companies in Asia understand the capability of product design and development, and engineering software, not many of them are adopting it because of a...
Digerati50: Turning chance into a thriving business
Digital News Asia (DNA) continues a weekly series that profiles the top 50 influencers, movers and shakers who are helping shape Malaysia’s Digital Economy. These...
SingAREN unveils high-speed research network built on Brocade
Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) has unveiled its SingAREN-Lightwave Internet Exchange (SLIX), a 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) community network with a Brocade...
Week in Review: Competition and mitigation strategies
Heightened competition is a given and Karamjit Singh learned how to rephrase a standard question in the toolkit of journalists, thanks to his attending back-to-back...
Apple is Ready to Show The World What’s Next in Mobile
Apple made it official yesterday, confirming months of speculation that the tech giant will show the world what’s next for iOS, Mac, and more on...
