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The Star: Packet One wants more spectrum |
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:01 |
Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (P1), a unit of Green Packet Bhd, is in dire need of more spectrum and hopes to get an additional 30Mhz of the 2.3G spectrum given the growth rates it is registering for its broadband service.
Sources said it had written to the industry regulator, Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission (MCMC), sometime in April to ask ...
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Epsilon Email Breach: What You Should Know |
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:54 |
If you're a customer of Walgreens, Best Buy, Citigroup or one of several other major U.S. companies, you might want to put your email inbox on high alert.
Over the weekend, those retailers were the latest on a growing list of big-name businesses to warn customers that computer hackers may have accessed their email addresses and names. All of the companies work with the Dallas-based online marketing firm Epsilon, which said ...
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Fast Company: Why Microsoft Is Buying Skype For $8.5 Billion |
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:12 |
Microsoft is bringing Skype--the firm that basically kicked off the home VoIP revolution--into its ever-expanding universe. Will it be worth the huge price tag?
Microsoft's purchase of Skype for a reported $8.5 billion is as good as done. It's a maneuver that'll spawn an even bigger company out of two existing tech giants. In addition to the over 600 million subscribed users, the deal will give Microsoft some of Skype's core tech, which it could inject into its business software for videoconferencing needs, its home computing environment, and even gaming ...
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Malaysia's New York Festivals 2011: Awards Winners & Finalists |
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:17 |
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Dentsu Young & Rubicam Sdn Bhd Silver World Medal Brand: Penang Global Tourism/Peranakan Culture Project - Historic Culture Education Title: Tin Mining/New Culture/Mother of Pearl Competition: ART/TECHNIQUE: Print Category: Art Direction Leo Burnett Adv/ARC Worldwide M\'sia Finalist Certificate Brand: Alpha 245/Leo Burnett Title: A Bigger Harvest Competition: COLLATERAL: Direct Mail Category: Business to Business Services
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The Malaysian Insider: Slowing talent growth adds to brain drain woes |
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:13 |
Malaysia ranked 36th out of 60 countries in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Talent Index which saw the United States placed as the top country in producing talent, while Singapore and Nordic nations were rated stellar performers.
The Global Talent Index (GTI) report for 2011, released yesterday, also projected Malaysia’s ranking would fall marginally by three places to 39th out of 60 countries by 2015, reflecting the country’s struggle with ...
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Market Wire: Tribal Fusion Becomes World's Third Largest Advertising Network Reaching 431 Million Monthly Unique Users |
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:08 |
EMERYVILLE, CA--(Marketwire - May 5, 2011) - Global online premium network Tribal Fusion has grown to become the world's third largest advertising network reaching 431 million monthly unique users worldwide according to March 2011 comScore, Inc. data on online ad networks.
"Our global growth is a testament to the fact that advertisers and agencies in many of the largest markets across the globe have been successfully leveraging our advertising and media solutions to help them better connect and engage with their target audiences," says Dilip DaSilva, CEO of Tribal Fusion. "Our global footprint also makes it easy for global brands to execute multi-country advertising campaigns."
Tribal Fusion sells it full product suite of innovative media solutions that are ...
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The Star: Mapping the future of advertising |
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:03 |
One can expect continuity in programmes initiated by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia (4As) in the last few years, as the new president Tony Savarimuthu, who was elected unopposed in March, had previously been the association’s vice-president.
But apart from that, the 4As will also increase its focus on the future of advertising and its role in the creative economy.
“We won’t be introducing too many new programmes,” Savarimuthu tells StarBizWeek in an interview. “We want to make the ..
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Microsoft Advertising: Asia Perspectives |
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Friday, 06 May 2011 15:29 |
"The way two humans beings interact is the future of how a human being will interact with a PC or a device.”
Haresh Khoobchandani, Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer for APAC, talks about the fascinating developments of natural user interface, and how creative technology is changing the face of marketing.
Watch the video to find out more ...
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The Sun: Cheaper phones, data access to drive mobile ads |
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Thursday, 05 May 2011 18:47 |
Cheaper phones and data access are expected to drive mobile advertising this year, alongside the growing usage of smartphones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, said BuzzCity Pte Ltd co-founder and chief executive officer Dr KF Lai.
Last year, total media spending in Malaysia stood at US$2.3 billion (RM6.9 billion), out of which US$54 million was spent on the Internet (both on PC and mobile).
Lai said mobile Internet consumption by urbanites would be driven by smartphones while second-tier cities like ...
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The Star: Task force wants Government to provide more support to Malaysian brands |
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Thursday, 05 May 2011 17:17 |
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The Branding Association of Malaysia has set up a branding task force to take responsibility in ensuring the Government remains informed and advised of issues and strategies pertaining to branding.
The group, made up of 34 members, is headed by association deputy president Eric Choong.
The task force has drafted a memorandum to the Prime Minister on how the Government could assist the Malaysian business community especially the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in branding their ...
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