Mobile-First
New IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps unveiled at MWC 2015
The IBM MobileFirst for iOS portfolio has been expanded to address the banking and financial services, airline, and retail industries, IBM Corp announced at the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC 2015) in Barcelona.
Chatting up a Smart Nation: How will we connect?
While 2014 seemed to have been the year where everyone craved to connect via every device, 2015 looks set to be the year where we live, breathe, play, purchase and chat via our mobile phones, writes Tencent’s Poshu Yeung.
50% of people to use devices first when going online: Gartner
In emerging economies, users are adopting smartphones as their exclusive mobile devices while in developed economies, multi-device households are becoming the norm, with tablets growing at the fastest rate of any computing device, according to Gartner.
Celcom Planet partners with Exabytes Network
Celcom Planet, the US$80mil 50:50 e-commerce venture between South Korea’s SK Planet and Malaysia’s Celcom Axiata, has announced what is likely to be the first of many partnerships with existing e-commerce sites. Exabytes CEO Chan Kee Siak explains the value of the partnership.
Apple and IBM deliver first wave of apps for MobileFirst
Apple and IBM have delivered the first wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS solutions, new made-for-business apps and supporting cloud services that bring IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad users in the enterprise.
Thailand, Indonesia smartphone growth hampered by cost: BuzzCity
Despite the overall rise in smartphone adoption and video consumption in the South-East Asian region, emerging economies such as Thailand and Indonesia are expected to struggle to grow further because of the high costs of handsets, according to BuzzCity.
The digital/ mobile revolution: Malaysian marketers are laggards
Despite the fact that consumers are spending more time online and on mobile, Malaysian marketers are lagging substantially behind their Asia Pacific and global counterparts in terms of digital and mobile media spend, according to a joint study on user behaviour by Yahoo and Mindshare.
Forrester’s top tech predictions for APAC in 2015
Mobile-powered customer experiences will fuel digital transformation in Asia Pacific in 2015, according to Forrester Research Inc, which has unveiled its top 10 technology predictions for the region.
#MyCyberSALE records RM67mil in sales: MDeC
MDeC said its #MYCyberSALE online shopping drive under the Digital Malaysia initiative recorded a total of RM67,385,595 in sales from 179,617 online shoppers, surpassing its sales and shopper targets of RM50 million and 100,000 respectively.
SEA businesses still lagging on mobile-first strategies: Google
Although smartphone usage and penetration have been growing exponentially in Asia, many businesses in South-East Asia still fail to see the importance of a ‘mobile-first’ mentality.
