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13 posts and columns on Indonesia
We Wanted the BlackBerry Server in Indonesia, Not Singapore, You Idiots
And if it’s not here quickly, we may just cut off all RIM services in the country.
The LivingSocial Trio Talk Asian Expansion, Groupon and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)
How will LivingSocial compete with rival Groupon in the daily deals space? Global domination!
Intel CEO: We’re Big in Brazil, and Lots of Other Places
When it comes to the PC market research, firms see business growing a lot more slowly than Intel does.
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LivingSocial Expands Internationally With Acquisitions in Asia, Middle East
LivingSocial, the second-largest deals provider after Groupon, is now in 21 countries after making three acquisitions. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. LivingSocial acquired Ensogo, which operates sites in Thailand and the Philippines; DealKeren, an Ensogo company based in Indonesia; and GoNabit, which operates in the United Arab Emirates. LivingSocial also has introduced deals in the Netherlands. Groupon operates in at least 43 countries.Bubbly "Voice Twitter" Service Launches in the Philippines
I last wrote about Bubble Motion, provider of the Bubbly mobile messaging service, exactly a year ago. At the time, the company had 150,000 users. Today, it has more than seven million.
How Internet Growth Is Playing Out in Top Emerging Markets
The number of Internet users in the top emerging markets is set to nearly double by 2015 — a pace of growth that sounds enticing but that actually presents plenty of challenges for businesses, according to a Boston Consulting Group report released Wednesday. The report estimates that China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia will have 1.2 billion Internet users within five years, up from about 610 million in 2009.
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Yo Quiero Twitter
Twitter’s traffic continues to climb, and the fuel is global growth. According to the latest numbers from comScore, nearly 93 million people visited Twitter.com in June, a 109 percent year-over-year increase (and that’s not counting users who participated through third-party apps). The largest increases in visitors were seen in Latin America, up 305 percent (with Hugo Chavez lending his cachet in Venezuela), and the Asia Pacific region, up 243 percent (in Indonesia, one-fifth of Internet users stopped by Twitter.com).Yahoo Acquires Geolocation Service Koprol (Which Translates to Foursquare of Indonesia)
If you can’t buy Foursquare–as Yahoo did not after aggressive efforts to do so–then…buy the Indonesian version of it! Koprol, a Jakarta-based social geolocation service, bears striking similarities to the hot New York-based one Yahoo offered $100 million for recently to no result. Yahoo announced the purchase of the Asian mobile-focused start-up for an undisclosed sum tonight.
Plurk Plundered! Microsoft Pulls Plug on Pilfered Property Posthaste [UPDATED]
If Microsoft didn’t know what a Plurk was before, it knows now. The software giant has suspended MSN Juku, its Chinese microblog site, “indefinitely” after confirming that the vendor that developed the site did indeed, as Plurk charged, copy design and code from Plurk, a Twitter rival popular in Taiwan and Indonesia.
Got Yahoo? Internet Giant Hires Goodby as Top Creative Agency for Its Ongoing Brand Revitalization.
In a shift that is sure to be much commented on by the advertising industry, Yahoo has tapped Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to take the lead for its creative, advertising, digital marketing and strategic planning efforts. The San Francisco-based Goodby, which is owned by the Omnicom Group, is known for innovative ideas and has done such memorable campaigns as the terrific “Got Milk?” campaign. Perhaps a “Got Yahoo?” campaign is in the future? Until now, the top job of goosing Yahoo’s tarnished brand, as part of a recently launched $100 million marketing push, has been helmed by Ogilvy & Mather.