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Online Video Site Tudou Eyes China’s Mobile Phones

karmic latte — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Video streaming website Tudou will use Temasek Holdings’ (Singapore’s state investment fund) recent US$35 million investment to woo more Chinese mobile phone owners to its portal. If everything goes to plan, the hugely-popular Chinese website could be looking at an ever-growing pool of at least 277 million users in China – the number of people [...]

China’s Economy Grew 9.6% in 2008

karmic latte — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:48:59 +0000

The Chinese economy grew by 9.6 percent, 0.6 percentage points more than earlier estimates, in 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday after discovering that the service sector had played a greater role than thought earlier. The NBS economic census results also show that the country achieved greater success in reducing its [...]

Vancl Ranked as China’s Fastest-Growing High-tech Firm

karmic latte — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:03:32 +0000

Online clothing retailer Vancl had topped Deloitte’s ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in Asia. Vancl announced its plans to expand into Hong Kong soon to extend the reach of its Web apparel business, which had demonstrated impressive growth over the last 3 years. The privately held firm founded in October 2007 runs the [...]

India & China – Mobile Subscribers in October 2009

karmic latte — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:19:38 +0000

Mobile subscribers in India totaled 488.4 million at the end of October 2009, according to the latest monthly update by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The country added a record 16.67 million new wireless subscribers in the month of October, driven mainly by the newly introduced per second billing started by Tata. In [...]

China Internet Users Reach 360 mil, Mobile Internet 192 mil

karmic latte — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:45:17 +0000

The Internet population in China had reached 360 million by end September 2009, according to statistics from the “2009 China Internet Conference” reported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Internet access via cell phones hit 192 million users, surging 62.7 percent over the same period last year. China totaled 719.8 million wireless [...]

Three Outsourcing Mega-Trends to Drive BPO – StarTek

karmic latte — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:22:00 +0000

Technology, not only the search for talent, is emerging as one of three megatrends that will change the character of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry according to StarTek CEO and President Larry Jones. Suggesting that “agents will be turbocharged on technology,” Jones envisions services delivery through multiple emerging technologies including social networking. In recent [...]

IMF Raises 2010 Growth Forecast for Asia

karmic latte — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:07:41 +0000

Asia is rebounding rapidly from the global crisis and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its growth forecast for the region, but it said Asia must adopt to a “new world” with weaker demand from its key Western export markets. Asia’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth was now projected to be 2.75% in 2009 [...]

Asian Cities Challenge Old Order

karmic latte — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:09:51 +0000

London and New York’s positions as the world’s leading financial centres are being challenged by the rise of Asian cities, according to a survey. Hong Kong and Singapore lead five Asian cities that appear in the City of London Corporation’s Global Financial Centres index of competitive cities. The other three are the Chinese cities of [...]