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Assessing the growing influence of Asia’s internet

By Jon Russell Fri, Sep 09, 2011 2:00PM UTC View Comments

Social Media New Zealand has an excellent guest post from Simon Grigg looking at the rise of Asia online, and how the continent’s growth is likely to see it influence the western world, which has until now been the influencer-in-chief. Overall, I agree with Simon’s take on things – Asia is gaining greater significance, no...

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Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015

By Jon Russell Wed, Aug 24, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

An Indian woman holds a child in her arm as she talks on a mobile phone in Allahabad, India, Friday, April 9, 2010. Pic: Ap.

Regular readers will recall how I’ve often lamented how the failure of certain web analytics firms to include mobile internet usage in their statistics renders their research and data fairly useless in Asia. To help prove my point, eMarketer has an neat data set looking at the use of mobile internet in the content. Quick...

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Cost of broadband still beyond many in Asia

By Jon Russell Tue, Aug 16, 2011 2:30PM UTC View Comments

I’ve often talked about a “digital divide” in Asia and research from Ovum provides further fuel for the fire concluding that many customers in emerging markets are priced out of broadband internet. Via the write-up at Telecom Asia: (The) study of prices in countries including Malaysia, the Philippines, India and Pakistan found that prices have...

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Gaming giant Zynga enters China with Tencent partnership

By Jon Russell Tue, Jul 26, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Online games giant Zynga is making moves into the Chinese market with a localised version of CityVille, its flagship online title which the LA Times reports has been played by more than 80 million people across the world. The game, renamed Zynga City – presumably in order to grow the Zynga name from the get-go...

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Half year summary of Indonesia’s internet landscape [infographic]

By Jon Russell Mon, Jul 25, 2011 4:00PM UTC View Comments

The folks at PR firm Burson Marsteller Asia have been busy pulling together details of the Indonesian internet landscape based on traffic statistics from the first half of the year. While infographics are used far too often by companies, this particular effort is worth a look as it provides a concise view of the reach...

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