Digital Intelligence

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...

The smartphone is rapidly becoming a convenient medium for making payments around the world. This new report from Neislen looks at the role of smartphone payments in India.

07/03/2016  |  Full story...

With China's economic troubles making headlines this month, how is its digital sector doing? A new report indicates that Internet take-up is slowing in the country as the mature market approaches saturation point, with nearly 90% of the country’s web users coming from mobile devices.

08/09/2015  |  Full story...

Flipkart has been forced to apologise for sending a sexist promotional email after a customer took to Twitter to criticise India's largest online retailer.

01/09/2015  |  Full story...

At the end of May 2015, India’s Food safety administration (FDA) ordered Nestlé India to recall its popular 2-minute Maggi noodles after tests showed that the product contained high levels of lead and MSG. Joanna Delaney, Digital Marketing Executive at Digital Strategy Consulting, looks at how the situation developed, and how Nestlé reacted and managed the situation using multiple digital channels.

17/07/2015  |  Full story...

India is set to be the "single greatest opportunity over the next five to 10 years" according to future 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch.

29/06/2015  |  Full story...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba appoints a new its chief executive as it announces 45% revenue growth for the quarter.

08/05/2015  |  Full story...

Facebook's free internet initiative Internet.org has been officially launched in Indonesia, despite coming under criticism for threatening ‘net neutrality’ in India earlier this month.

24/04/2015  |  Full story...

Tencent has reached $200 billion market capitalisation in Hong Kong-based trading last night, meaning that the Chinese social networking firm has overtaken Amazon in size.

15/04/2015  |  Full story...

Twitter has opened an office in Hong Kong, despite the social network being banned in mainland China, meaning its content and ads won’t reach most of the country’s population.

11/03/2015  |  Full story...

Baidu search revenue from mobile surpassed PC during December 2014, as the Chinese search revenue continues its transition to becoming a mobile-centric company.

24/02/2015  |  Full story...