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Trouble in Paradise: Haze Craze 2013

As the saying goes, “rumours spread like wildfire”–and this has never felt more true than it has in Singapore this week. In line with the agricultural slash-and-burn tactics employed by farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia, deforestation has lit a blaze of buzz upon social media platforms here in Singapore. Over 290,000 individuals have mentioned the haze […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #82

Facebook now has searchable hashtags to follow public conversation Following the report in March, Facebook just recently launched the functionality to follow conversations through hashtags. As reported by Techcrunch, Facebook announced that its capabilities include clicking on hashtags from other services, searching for hashtags and writing posts directly from the hashtag feed. Here’s a look […]

Five Friday Facts #80

64.3% of Sina Weibo users watch online videos through Weibo interface As reported by Tech in Asia, an agreement has just been made by two of China’s biggest players in social media – Youku Tudou videos will now be promoted on Sina Weibo. Whilst 76% of Sina Weibo’s 500 million registered users are actively accessing […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #81

YouTube founders have launched a Chinese version of vine, Wan Pai ASOS system by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen has launched their newest app which is similar to Vine, Wan Pai(玩拍). Similar to Vine, Wan Pai also features 6 second video recording and sharing to Chinese social networks like Sina Weibo and Tencent […]

Five Friday Facts #79

Chat app Nimbuzz has 150M users worldwide We’ve reported heavily on Asian chat apps like WeChat, KakaoTalk and Line. In the past year or so, they’ve exploded in popularity across the globe. TechInAsia recently reported that Nimbuzz, another chat app, has joined the other apps in this category and done the same. The originally-Dutch chat […]

Harnessing Community Wisdom: 3 Takeaways from Crowdsourcing Week 2013

If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you might have noticed that the We Are Social team was tweeting about Crowdsourcing Week via @wearesocialsg with the official hashtag #CSW13 this past week. Crowdsourcing Week claims to be the first international event bringing industry experts, innovators, and participants to discuss crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding heading. The […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #80

KakaoTalk to launch PC version in June Korean’s leading chat app, KakaoTalk, will soon unveil a PC version of its popular mobile messenger application. It is expected to launch later this month upon completion of its beta test to access user reception. This desktop version is equivalent to its mobile version, with features such as […]

Five Friday Facts #78

Line now has 160 million users worldwide Line hit 150 million users earlier this month, and it has continued to grow at an incredible rate. TechInAsia recently reported that Line has now reached 160 million users worldwide. The biggest contributors to this growth are Asian markets, with Indonesia at the forefront of the Japan-based chat […]

We Are Social Midweek Mashup #79

KakaoHome receives 500K downloads in 9 days Korea’s leading chat app KakaoTalk has seen its Android app KakaoHome take off at an immediately rapid rate. According to TheNextWeb, the app which resembles Facebook Home surpassed 500,000 downloads since launch last week, in a matter of days – 9 to be exact. As TheNextWeb notes, this […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #79

Kakao signs up Tapjoy as the first international ad partner Kakao, the South Korean company behind Kakao Talk, marks its first deal with a major ad space provider with global operations, Tapjoy, as reported by TNW. This allows Kakao to widen its international roster of advertisers and to bring new opportunities for developers to make […]

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