Saturday Apr 20th

Will Apple's first maneuver in mobile payment checkmate competitors?
No other company is as closely examined and observed as Apple. With all eyes on each move it takes, there is certainly room for all kinds of rumors and speculation that fuel again news and imagination on new products, offers and technologies. And that for good reasons! Apple has often proven in the ...
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Influencer Marketing
The influence of bloggers and other social media users is a hot topic that is motivating the popularity of social media marketing enormously. As Jeff Bullas describes it: “Businesses who are relentless in building a following on social media are in fact creating their own publishing platforms, gro ...
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DigitasLBi: M-commerce, Social Media & ROPO lead retail trends
According to a consumer study by global digital and technology agency DigitasLBi, consumers worldwide are increasingly using multi-platform devices, especially mobile, to enhance their in-store shopping experience. DigitasLBi’s first-of-its-kind, proprietary research, entitled Connected Commerce ...
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Four major advantages of Singapore’s new budget for SMEs (and how to capitalize on them)
Singapore is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. It’s economy has put up numbers so impressive they are nothing short of surprising over the last few years, including the occasional quarter of 20%+ GDP growth. Singapore is the world’s 40th largest economy, a title it earns from va ...
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Rise to the top - upwardly mobile!
Just last year, IBM launched its MobileFirst, a mobile strategy that enables clients to radically streamline and accelerate mobile adoption. IBM MobileFirst combines deep industry expertise with mobile, Big Data and analytics, cloud and social technologies to help organizations capture new markets a ...
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Marketing reinvention the key focus of Adobe’s Digital Marketing Summit 2014
A crowd of more than 5000 digital marketers, publishers, agencies and technologists from across the world gathered this week at Salt Lake City at Adobe’s 12th annual Digital Marketing Summit 2014, which closes today with the much anticipated ‘Sneak Peek’, where delegates get early looks at pre ...
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Vserv.mobi launched its data augmented mobile Real Time Bidding (RTB) platform
With an aim to empower advertisers and developers, award winning mobile ad exchange, Vserv.mobi just announced the launch of its data augmented mobile Real Time Bidding (RTB) platform. With this, Vserv.mobi bridges a value gap across emerging markets as it enables RTB for its customers on both the d ...
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influr.com: New social influencer marketing platform to drive sales
Face the truth! People today are usually fed up of being marketed to, so their primary reaction upon receiving a marketing communication is to disbelieve what they are being shown. If you’re in the business of marketing you probably feel uncomfortable now, but there is a simple solution to the pro ...
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Mobile search reshapes the path to purchase by diverting the consumer journey across devices
Logically, mobile search is important for the usability of mobile content for the same reasons as internet search engines became important to the usability of internet content. However, given the limitations of a mobile phone’s screen size and general navigability, mobile search may be the future, ...
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Meltwater cultivates vibrant social communities
Meltwater Buzz 3.0, the social media marketing suite of the online intelligence solution provider, got upgraded around a year ago, as we had reported. The company helps businesses to monitor their social conversations and to engage social influencers at a personal level.
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Five impacts of the newly set 2014 Singapore Budget to take note of (and how retailers can capitalize on it)
Whenever a large-scale government budget is set, the economy of that country and international trade partners of that economy are affected. This is especially true of Singapore, an anchor of the at-large Asian continental economy and one of the most prosperous economies in the world. The country’s ...
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Content Curation - Social Media Marketing is growing up!
"Content is King", so much seems to be clear. Besides, many companies that have taken on a kind of pioneering role in the field of innovative marketing and sales not only make use of the numerous possibilities offered to them by social networks since just yesterday. Whether for customer acquisition, ...
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Forrester’s mobile trend predictions for marketers in 2014
According to Forrester Research’s recent annual mobile trends report, there will be more than two billion smartphones globally this year. Besides that, the firm not only predicts that mobile is becoming the new digital hub, but the bridge to the physical world, too. These are stalwart reasons why ...
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Strategic recommendations and operational aspects for SMM
Hardly any topic is currently as hot and controversial as social media marketing (SMM). Hype or savior? "Nice- to-have" or silver bullet? The truth lies - as most of the time - somewhere in between. Undisputable, however, is the fact that social media marketing can be a more powerful tool for custom ...
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HootSuite launches new Chinese apps to press ahead with Asia Pacific localization
HootSuite's latest Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, as well as Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo Analytics apps by Klarity, empower customers to engage and measure the reach of their broader global audiences. The widely used social relationship platform is introducing the set of Chinese app integrations in its ...
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Social media means cherishing and taking care of friendships
Social media is a true gift to marketing, thus, community managers should appreciate the user-driven communication tool and pay attention to the following to improve their media skills:
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Opera Mediaworks powers the mobile ad economy with the power of one
The mobile ad platform, Opera Mediaworks, announced recently a new, unified end-to-end platform, servicing the entire advertising value chain, including advertisers, agencies, ad networks, DSPs (demand-side platforms), rich-media and video providers, SSPs (supply-side platforms) and publishers. This ...
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New APJ study maps operational gaps in marketing claims, business practices and actual customer experience in the region
Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) companies may want to take heed of the famous quote by American actress Mae West—“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises”—particularly as it relates to delivering on brand promises made to Asia’s 4.3 billion consumers. In a new study on the state ...
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Engaged audiences and new ad format open up possibilities for brand advertisers on Skype
Microsoft just announced that it would begin offering advertising inventory on Skype for the first time in China, the Philippines and Thailand, helping brands take advantage of the growing popularity of Skype in these markets.
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Hill+Knowlton: The next global social network will come out of Asia
I read an interesting article on Hill + Knowlton’s website where Ben Shipley, Digital Practice Lead for Hill+Knowlton Strategies Asia Pacific poses the questions if the next global social network will come out of Asia. He states that social has its strongest roots in the United States and Silicon ...
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Yota Devices crowdsourced new user cases for world’s first dual-screen, always-on smartphone
Dedicated to developing and producing high-tech consumer LTE devices, Yota Devices gained international prominence with the introduction of YotaPhone, the world's first dual-screen, always-on smartphone, which was named the Best of MWC 2014 by more than 20 media outlets. But, the company doesn’ ...
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Social media lead management tips
Your strongest asset as a marketer is your database of contacts: email and blog subscribers, leads and customers, and now your social media followers that impact your success essentially as well. Your social media database consists of followers and fans who want to engage with your brand online. Th ...
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A new variant of Android.MisoSMS infects users’ mobile phones and steals personal SMS contents
FireEye labs recently found a new variant of Android.MisoSMS, Android malware that steals users’ personal SMS contents. The previous discovery of Android.MisoSMS was known to perform exfiltration of confidential information from infected users to the command and control server. All incoming SMS m ...
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Social SEO replaces SEO
Nowadays the Internet is mainly used for three things: exchanging and sharing information, getting information, and buying online. Indeed, there are tons of ways to comment on products and services, and in the end it‘s not the companies with the most extravagant campaigns but those with satisfied ...
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CMO Council to announce best-practice resource on ‘Mobile Relationship Marketing’
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council just announce its second white paper in a four-part series on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The series acts as a resource for marketers looking for best-practice examples of brands who are leading the charge in capitalizing on big data, mobile relationship marketi ...
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Transparency in social media is most appreciated
Giving undisguised insights into your organization and inviting others to a dialogue can help you to succeed in your business field. The more you open up, the more point of contacts you provide to others, and the closer you get to your customers. Ideally, you even generate loyalty. Social media has ...
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Appointments & Announcements
Zinwave, a global provider of distributed antenna systems (DAS) for in-building cellular coverage, has expanded its commercial presence in Australasia in response to growing demand for “anywhere access” to Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) using MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) technology. I ...
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Appointments & Announcements
The Asian Marketing Effectiveness & Strategy Awards, Asia Pacific’s principal gathering of marketing, advertising, media and brand experts, announced Andrew Knott, Vice President of Digital and Media, McDonald’s APMEA; and Elaine Rodrigo, Global Director, Consumer Insights & Strategy, Mondelez I ...
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New research reveals how marketers need to fine-tune their content strategies to effectively engage today’s customer audiences
  New content marketing research by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council reveals insight-hungry business buyers are increasingly reliant on trusted third-party information to make more educated decisions. The study also found that buyers tend to be clustered in distinctly different conten ...
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Creativity is the lifeblood of social media marketing
Compared to traditional marketing, social media content has virtually an immortal life span online, where it functions as more of an annuity than an expense item. Important is to adjust your content for each and every network particularly: Tweet quick tips, use images and videos on Facebook and go f ...
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