Social media: Vox populi when terror strikes
In the wake of the IS attacks, Indonesians rallied around social media, Benjamin Cher writes from Singapore.
Tech brands dominate SEA: YouGov’s BrandIndex
Tech companies featured prominently in three SEA countries tracked by YouGov’s BrandIndex, especially in Malaysia where WhatsApp was ranked No 1, with Facebook and Google coming in second and third respectively.
Facebook wants to connect the ‘other’ 150mil Indonesians
It is the responsibility of all stakeholders, both public and private, to connect as many people as possible to the Internet, Facebook Inc’s vice president of Business Development John Lagerling told the Indosat IDByte 2015 conference in Jakarta.
150 juta orang Indonesia masih belum dapat akses Internet
Sebelum ada e-commerce banyak orang Indonesia mengenal Internet dari Facebook
Konten lokal berbahasa lokal dan harga terjangkau bisa menarik minat masyarakat
GrabTaxi CTO Wei Zhu quits after a year
GrabTaxi CTO Wei Zhu, the former Facebook engineer who joined the taxi-hailing startup to great fanfare in August last year, has left the company after just about a year.
Social to boost e-retail sales to US$1.7 trillion this year: Juniper Research
Global e-retail sales are expected to reach US$1.7 trillion this year, up by more than 17% on 2014’s total, according to new data from Juniper Research.
WeChat’s Tencent enters music-streaming fray with Joox
The music streaming world just got a whole lot more competitive, especially in Malaysia, with a new player joining the ranks of Spotify, Deezer and Raku, reports Edwin Yapp.
MyEG on why it’s not in the Cradle Seed Ventures Fund
For those wondering why e-government services provider MyEG Services Bhd is not involved in the Cradle Seed Ventures Fund, it’s because its cofounder Wong Thean Soon (aka TS Wong) has a new game plan for investing in startups: He wants MyEG to have more control.
Adknowledge unveils Chinese version for FB, Twitter campaign management
Marketers and advertisers now able to manage and implement Facebook and Twitter campaigns on a localised Chinese platform developed by Adknowledge Asia Pacific.
IBM and Facebook team up on ‘people-based’ marketing
Facebook and IBM Commerce said they will collaborate to provide brands with tailored marketing capabilities that “reach the right people at the right time with the right message.”
