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Study: HK employees work longer, but waste time online

By Elmer W. Cagape Tue, Oct 18, 2011 5:39AM UTC View Comments

We’ve always heard that Hong Kong people spend too much time at work, often due to demanding bosses, unrealistic deadlines and understaffed departments. But what about extended sessions of unproductive web surfing? Add that as a possible reason. Community Business, a non-profit group, conducted a survey and revealed that more than half of the 1,003...

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Mindtalk goes live, ready to fill social networking gap

By Daily Social Wed, Jun 01, 2011 11:46AM UTC View Comments

Tweet A new website called mindtalk went live a few days ago and is being talked about a lot lately in Twitter. Basically mindtalk as a new kind of social networking site. People like me are getting tired of social networks launched in Indonesia, because they offer nothing different than Facebook or Twitter. But it looks like...

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Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines lead world in Facebook user growth

By Tonyo Cruz Mon, May 30, 2011 11:29PM UTC View Comments

Facebook statistics service Socialbakers reports that Brazil, Indonesia and the Philippines registered the highest number of new sign-ups for the month of May. The Socialbakers report said that Brazil registered 11.37 percent growth, while Southeast Asian neighbors Indonesia and the Philippines notched increases by 4.15 and 5.75 percent, respectively. Other Asian countries that landed in...

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Infographic: The history of Twitter advertising

By Design Taxi Fri, May 27, 2011 3:15AM UTC View Comments

Mashable commissioned an infographic documenting Twitter’s nascent advertising model, which began as “Promoted Tweets” in April 2010: [via DesignTaxi.com]...

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Digital media in the Philippines

By Tonyo Cruz Sun, May 22, 2011 10:58PM UTC View Comments

A number of Singapore Management University students interviewed me recently via Skype for their research project on social media in the Philippines, and I am very happy to share the fruits of their hard work, a wiki full of useful data and information on digital media in the so-called social media capital of the world....

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