One For The Money Groupon Deal Helps Film At Box Office
Groupon ran a deal from Lionsgate for tickets for one or two (up to 60% Off) for the movie One For The Money, which opened on January 27. The deal ended just before 12:00PM Central on that day. Over opening …
Giants Are Super Bowl Champions, According To Giants’ Website
The New York Giants’ website accidentally displayed an image indicating that they had won the Super Bowl today. It’s possible that this will come true, but considering that the game doesn’t even kickoff for about 25 hours, the celebration might …
Microsoft Adcenter Updates for January 2012
Those vested in cost-per-click advertising should know that there are some viable alternatives to Google Adwords. While the search volume isn’t always present, Microsoft this week released several updates to its Adcenter platform that will make the offering more attractive to advertisers. Microsoft rolled out their January 2012 release… [[ This is a content summary […]
Listrak Launches Post Purchase Solution for Merchants
Email marketing firm Listrak has launched an email marketing solution to help online retailers with their post purchase strategies. The solution allows merchants to automatically create and trigger post purchase email campaigns that will keep customers engaged, increase sales and increase customers’ lifetime value. Post purchase strategies… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit […]
Bernard Leong on Internet Trends and Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Presentation by co-founder and CTO of Chalkboard, and also of SGentrepreneurs, and TWIA. You can follow Bernard on Twitter @bleongcw. #15:13: There are a […]
Moscow-Based Venture Fund Ru-Net to Invest USD50m in SEA Market
I had the privilege to have a chat with Alexander Pavlov, Investment Director for Moscow-Based Venture Fund Ru-Net, on the sidelines of our Startup Asia event. We chatted about Ru-Net’s plans to invest $50 million is the Southeast Asia (SEA) region. In a nutshell, Ru-Net is a Russian-based fund focused on investing in Internet and […]
29 Meme-Inspired Movie Posters [PICS]
If Internet memes were turned into movies, their promotional posters might resemble the designs London-based Stefan van Zoggel conjured up. …
Giants Website Prematurely Reveals Super Bowl Winner [PIC]
The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday’s big game eve…
Bing Hints At Better Utilization of Facebook, Twitter In Near Future
It’s well known within the Internet industry that Bing has special access to Facebook and Twitter that Google doesn’t. They pay for such access. Google thinks it can do better by putting Google+ content all over its results with Search …
Interview: Does Facebook’s IPO Make Good Business Sense?
Companies file for IPOs all the time, but the recent filing by social networking giant Facebook has seemed to connect with nearly everyone, and in a big way. On Wednesday, Facebook filed for its IPO in hopes to raise $5 billion or more, which would make it the largest initial public offering from an Internet […]
Is Video Scribing The Next Big Thing?
From the biggest brands to the smallest businesses on the Web, an increasing number of marketers are recognizing the power of online video to create awareness and sell their products and services. It has become such a popular Internet marketing tool, in fact, that many companies are looking for ways to make their videos stand […]
Be Like Mark: Facebook IPO Takeaways
Just in case you've been living under a rock, Facebook announced its epic $100 billion IPO this week. From old media to new media to social media, and within every digital business in between, everyone's talking about it. Whether you're concerned, confused or could simply care less, there are indeed some valuable lessons that… [[ […]
Acheevit: Helping Salespeople Sell
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. The last startup to pitch at Startup Asia in Singapore was Acheevit (getacheevit.com), which aspires to provide real-time performance information and feedback to sales […]
And the Startup Arena 2012 Winner is… Teamie
A full 19 startups entered our Startup Arena competition, but only one comes out alive… Well, with a huge cheque for US$10,000.
Donald Trump, Deion Sanders and Apolo Ohno Star in Century 21?s Super Bowl Ad [VIDEO]
Century 21 has enlisted a team of celebrities for its first-ever Super Bowl commercial. Reality TV star and business mogul Donald Trump, Pro…