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Expedia transforms travel in Asia through technology
Collects information and constructs hypotheses that are tested and retried to gain the best insights.
Malaysia, Singapore firms make little impact in Deloitte’s Tech Fast 500
Only two Singaporean companies and one Malaysian company made it into Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd’s (DTTL) rankings of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies across nine Asia Pacific countries.
Will Voopee be a cushion for XOX?
XOX-Voopee may not be compelling enough for users to switch from their current messaging apps
Still, product has some interesting features that XOX can leverage and improve on to be a real player
SEA chat app war: KakaoTalk wants to be ‘the one’
Users will ultimately choose a single chat app, Korean maker wants to be the one left standing
Believes in customising for individual markets beyond just providing local language content
Friendster and Korea’s Kakao partnership to drive mobile content market
Friendster Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of MOL Global, announced it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with South Korea’s Kakao Corp to promote, market and distribute the Kakao mobile platform in Malaysia.
Social messaging apps will cost operators US$32.6bil: Ovum
Research firm Ovum has forecast that social messaging apps will cost operators US$32.6 billion in 2013, growing to over US$86 billion in 2020, with pace in the space picking up this year.
