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Midweek Mashup #82

US-based chat app Tango to penetrate the Chinese market According to The Next Web(TNW), Tango, a US based chat app has gained a 215 million investment from Alibaba last March with plans to penetrate the Chinese market this year. The aim is to target users that are looking for different experiences to the current market […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #124

KakaoTalk has 140 million registered users KakaoTalk has recently announced its registered users and revenue for 2o13. As reported previously, Line has over 350 million registered users, and WeChat has grown to 355 million monthly active users. Clearly, these two chat apps are giants in the Asian market dominating the industry through its massive user base. However, KakaoTalk also revealed […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #123

WhastApp doubles its subscribers in India in the past 6 months While Facebook hit a major milestone of having 100 million active users in India on March 31st, WhatsApp just doubled its subscribers in the country in the past 6 months as the nation ‘s smartphone market continue to grow. WhatsApp now has 48 million […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #122

WhatsApp hits 500M active monthly users WhatsApp has announced it just passed half a billion monthly active users. However, the question over how brands will tap into this huge audience remains unanswered. Line introduces sticons for Android Japanese messaging service Line recently introduced sticons – a hybrid between stickers and emoticons. You can now use them as large, […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #121

CABCY video gets shorter as it’s shared Singapore’s ‘Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth’ has created a social video with a real sharing incentive. The video, originally 100 seconds long, shows a child in distress. It gets shorter and shorter each time it is shared on Facebook, and is accompanied by the tagline ‘Share it […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #120

Weibo chooses NASDAQ, sets price range for IPO Chinese microblogging platform Weibo has chosen to go public on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol NASDAQ:WB. The social network has also set its IPO price range between US$17 and US$19 per share, which will raise up to US$437 million for the company. HootSuite adds features for Chinese microblogging apps Since adding […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #118

Sina Weibo to be officially called Weibo China’s number one social network, Sina Weibo will officially be called Weibo with the drop of ‘Sina’ from its name to be listed on US IPO. The logo on the site has also been modified accordingly. In Chinese, Weibo translate to “microblog”. By taking over the name that […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #117

WeChat now has 355 million active users According to Tencent, WeChat has now grown to 355 million monthly active users (MAUs), and up from 271.9 million monthly users in Q3, 2013. It is important to note that WeChat had 30.6% of growth on monthly active users from Q3 2o13 to Q4 2013 base on Tech in Asia’s calculation […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #116

Sina Weibo Is Going Public In what could be the biggest social media IPO of 2014, Sina Weibo began the process of going public in the US on Friday. Sina Weibo is seeking to raise up to $500 million in its initial public offering and though not quite as big as Twitter, which has more global […]

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If you are, we’d love to meet you. The Singapore office started in 2011 and since then we have grown our team to include 30 specialists from around the world. While working alongside established, multinational brands like Lenovo, Intel, Jaguar Landrover and Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore, our culture remains informal and we religiously inject […]

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