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Five Friday Facts #65

In China, e-commerce driven by prospect of anytime shopping, low prices Last month, We Are Social’s report on Social, Digital and Mobile in China detailed the rise of e-commerce in the burgeoning market. The report noted that there are over 240 million online shoppers in China, collectively spending at a staggering rate of $40,000 per second. TheNextWeb cites […]

Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Jan 2013 [Part 2]

Following the first set of reports on the top performing pages in Asia for the month of January, here are the remaining Asian countries that Socialbakers have reported on. South Korea is nearing its 10 Million milestone on Facebook. Due to the language and cultural uniqueness of Korea, local pages work better than the global […]

Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Jan 2013

SocialBakers has published its first edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world this year. There was a general drop in the numbers of Facebook users across all countries. This is seemingly due to Facebook’s continuous effort in getting rid of fake profiles. The table below shows the countries that saw the biggest drop in Facebook numbers over […]

We Are Social Midweek Mashup #65

Sina Weibo sets new record in the first second of Chinese New Year How many Twitter-like posts did China’s Sina Weibo register in the first second of the Chinese New Year of the Snake? 34,977 posts within a second, beating last year’s record of 32,312 posts in the first second of Chinese New Year. According […]

Five Friday Facts #64

In China, most valuable brands are also the top brands on social media A recent report by Resonance China indicated that the top brands on social media are also the biggest and most valuable brands in China. The report refers to BrandZ’s annual report on the Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands, and indicates that these […]

Connected Business in 2013

Here’s a great infographic from 123Print that we discovered thanks to the wonderful folks over at The Curious Brain. It’s packed with great soundbites, but here are some of the ones that caught our eye: 56% of tweets to companies on Twitter are being ignored; Almost twice as many CEOs of top companies are tweeting […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #64

HootSuite social media dashboard goes Korean Social media dashboard HootSuite is now fully localized for Korean users. Though a Korean User Interface is not available on the mobile app yet, it’s in the works. Considering how often the Vancouver-based company has been rolling out updates to support Asian users, we reckon the months ahead will be interesting […]

Five Friday Facts #63

Google+ is no longer a ghost town GlobalWebIndex(GWI) recently released its research results for Q4, 2012. The findings reveal that there are 343 million active users on Google+, making it the second largest social network in the world. Active users are defined as those who used or contributed to the site in the past month. […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #63

Mercedes-Benz sells limited edition Smart Cars on Sina Weibo Could this be the sign of things to come? Mercedes-Benz launched a Weibo app last Friday to sell 666 units of special edition smart cars priced at US$12,700 (S$25,328) each. For the first time, the lifestyle arm of the German luxury carmaker is collaborating with Chinese […]

Let’s Get Social

Social Media Week returns to Singapore from Feb 18 to 22, and we’re bracing ourselves for an amazing variety of high-quality events taking place around the island. The We Are Social team will be out in force for many of these events, but we’re also delighted to be hosting a few sessions of our […]

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