With the increasing penetration of smartphones, data becoming affordable and ever-growing availability of content, 80 percent of internet users across all age-groups in the country are accessing YouTube, according to Google India. The Google-owned company highlighted how YouTube is associated with India’s internet growth story at the “Brandcast 2018” event as it celebrated its 10th […]
Following weeks of speculation, Uber has sold its business in Southeast Asia to Singapore-based rival Grab. The deal will net Uber a 27.5 percent stake in Grab, while Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join Grab’s board. It’s said to be the largest acquisition by a Southeast Asian firm. Grab, meanwhile, will take over Uber’s operations […]
Kids’ digital media platform TotallyAwesome has announced the launch of an incubator program for aspiring young YouTubers in Australia. The TotallyAwesome Squad is a hand-picked club of content creators who inspire others to create, imagine, express, and share their creative ideas within a global social community of like-minded kids under 13 years old. Each week, […]
The battle between e-commerce companies Amazon and Flipkart in India continues to intensify as Amazon is now closing the gap on Flipkart, according to Forrester. Flipkart raised $2.5 billion from Softbank in 2017, bringing its total funding to $6bn to date and competing with Amazon, which committed $5bn to India for market share. After surpassing […]
Online food marketplace Foodpanda India is hosting its first virtual food festival – What The Feast (WTF). The show will go on till the Good Friday long weekend (April 1st 2018) nationally. The festival brings together a plethora of special menus, discounts and offers from top restaurants across the country, like Cafe Coffee Day, Faasos, […]
Nielsen held a global launch event in Singapore for a new Smart Store offering, which aims to help retailers and manufacturers understand shopper behaviour and uncover the “moment of truth”. Regardless of the store format, Nielsen claims the offering will allow marketers to measure, evaluate, and optimise a range of retail strategies that impact sales […]
The online advertising industry in Australia recorded a seven percent increase in revenue in 2017, with total revenue reaching $7.9 billion. Search and directories took top position for all categories, recording a five percent growth to reach $3.6 bn, which is 45% of all advertising dollars spent in Australia. Coming in second was general display, […]
Social media giant Twitter has announced nine new premium video sports content partnerships to enhance its offering in the Asia-Pacific region. Twitter has signed agreements with golf’s Asian Tour, pay-TV broadcaster Astro Malaysia, online soccer platform BallBall, global sports network Eleven Sports, cable network Fox Sports Asia, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), Indonesian broadcaster […]
When you’re running on a treadmill like a compulsive little hamster, or just going about your daily business, you may imagine yourself as the star of your own modern Super Mario-style video game, bounding across a brightly colored screen and leaping dexterously over obstacles to rack up points. But lucky folks in China have the […]
Karix Mobile, a leading messaging solution and mobile engagement company (formerly known as mGage India) headquartered in Mumbai, India – announced the launch of its cloud communications platform as a service (CPaaS) – karix.io. The platform was showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 26 – March 1, 2018) and would initially offer programmable […]