Digital Intelligence

Chinese retail giant Alibaba has once broken its record for shopping sales event Singles Day, making a gargantuan 213 billion yuan (£24bn) in just 24 hours, but demand for big-ticket items fell due to China-US trade tensions.

12/11/2018  |  Full story...

Discovery platform Taboola has struck a global strategic partnership with vivo, the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

25/10/2018  |  Full story...

Ad tech firm Adform has expanded its presence in China, Australia, and Dubai, with additional regional growth planned in the near future.

10/09/2018  |  Full story...

Esports revenue is forecast to exceed $1.65bn by 2021 worldwide, according to new research.

26/02/2018  |  Full story...

The top 5 Chinese global brands in 2018 include Lenovo, Huawei, Alibaba, Xiaomi and Air China, as the government urges its companies to ‘go global’, according to new research.

07/02/2018  |  Full story...

Australia will fare best from the rise of machine learning, while UK will lose out the most, According to a new study looking into the impact of AI until the year 2030.

06/02/2018  |  Full story...

Record spending at its Singles Day shopping event helped sales at Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba saw surge 56% in the last three months of 2017 on the back of record-breaking Singles day sales.

05/02/2018  |  Full story...

Fans of esports tournaments are more likely to be young and male, but this is a demographic which marketers have found increasingly difficult to engage, according to new research.

05/02/2018  |  Full story...

Adults in South Korea will spend more than a quarter of their daily media time on a smartphone in 2018, almost the highest in the world, according to new research.

08/01/2018  |  Full story...

Unilever has revealed 30 of the most ambitious startups and scale-ups to be part of the Unilever Foundry 30 South East Asia and Australasia (SEAA).

22/11/2017  |  Full story...

Global smartphone demand totalled 347 million units in 2Q17, up four percent year-on-year, marking the strongest second quarter on record, according to new research.

04/08/2017  |  Full story...

Global smartphone demand totalled 347 million units in 2Q17, up four percent year-on-year, marking the strongest second quarter on record, according to new research.

04/08/2017  |  Full story...

A new global study commissioned by the Futurestep division of Korn Ferry reveals the missed opportunity for companies that fail to strategically link talent acquisition with business strategy.

13/03/2017  |  Full story...

Lenovo has been named as the most powerful Chinese global brand builder, followed by Huawei and Alibaba, according to new research.

19/01/2017  |  Full story...

McDonalds Japan has begun a social media campaign that lets its customers vote for their favourite burger, with the winner becoming part of a free upgrade meal deal.

12/01/2017  |  Full story...

Malaysian sound tech firm VAV has secured $557,000 in funding to expand its audio-based mobile targeting platform.

10/01/2017  |  Full story...

Fukoku Life Insurance Mutual Company has cut 34 jobs, instead using IBM’s artificial intelligence bot Watson to take over assessing medical insurance claims over the phone.

06/01/2017  |  Full story...

2016 will see Asia-Pacific overtake North America as the world’s biggest market for digital advertising spend for the first time, according to the latest Advertising Forecast from research and consulting firm, Strategy Analytics.

14/07/2016  |  Full story...

Messaging app Line is planning a dual Japan-US IPO, which could raise as much as $1.14 bn, which could make it the biggest tech IPO of 2016.

12/07/2016  |  Full story...

A campaign featuring transgender pop band from India has won the second annual ‘Glass' Award at Cannes Lions, for its work to promote gender equality.

23/06/2016  |  Full story...

Apple had invested $1bn in Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, as the electronics giant looks to take on Uber.

16/05/2016  |  Full story...

Facebook is booming in South East Asia, with 241 million people on Facebook in the region, 94% of them through mobile, according to new data.

05/04/2016  |  Full story...

China is planning new rules which would require firms that serve domestic internet users to register their web addresses inside the country - a move which has raised concerns among foreign businesses.

31/03/2016  |  Full story...

McCann Erickson Japan has become the first agency to appoint a robot as its creative director... but is it an early April Fool's Day prank or a genuine sign of things to come?

29/03/2016  |  Full story...

The world wide web is getting faster, with global average internet connection speeds up to 5.6 Mbps, marking a 23% increase year-over-year, according to new data.

29/03/2016  |  Full story...