Innovative "group buying" sites offering bargains on everything from meals to travel packages are catching on in Asia as companies harness the power of social media to influence consumer behaviour.
Internet
May 2, 2011
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(AP) -- What happens when you cross the world's largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out.
Internet
Apr 26, 2011
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(AP) -- A certain feeling is back in San Francisco. Murmurings of stock market riches. Twenty-something entrepreneurs as celebrities. Lamborghinis parked next to taco trucks.
Business
Apr 9, 2011
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Rocketing smartphone use could drive mobile operators into losses in three years unless they rapidly adopt technology to capture more revenue from data services, according to a US network company.
Telecom
Feb 3, 2011
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LinkedIn may be the first company to quench investor thirst for the red-hot social networking market.
Business
Jan 6, 2011
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A rethink is needed on the 'dire' situation of funding of databases across biology, researchers say.
Other
Oct 18, 2010
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The world's second largest online shop for mobile phone applications is out to change the economics of the booming industry by making the popular mini-programs available for free.
Software
Oct 8, 2010
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As the buzz surrounding Google Inc.'s efforts to jump into the digital music market rose to a roar late August, one name kept surfacing about the person who might lead it -- Ian Rogers.
Internet
Sep 17, 2010
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A new media marketing world increasingly dominated by mobile technologies, "shopping bots," recommendation systems and peer-to-peer networks has spawned a radical new online marketplace, challenging the old behaviors of buyers ...
Economics & Business
Aug 31, 2010
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(AP) -- Digital download sales growth slowed further for Warner Music Group Corp. in its fiscal third quarter, prompting CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to say Thursday that the company was looking "beyond the iTunes model" to return ...
Business
Aug 5, 2010
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