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2014 Will Be The Year of Data Driven Marketing and Sales; Asia Will Move From a Market of Millions to Millions of Markets to Boost Success in xCommerce, says IDC

Singapore and Hong Kong, December 4, 2013 – International Data Corporation (IDC) announces today that it expects ICT spending growth in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) region to be 6.6% in 2013 followed by an accelerated growth of 8.7% in 2014.   Although the growth outlook for overall ICT spending of the region in 2013 is …

Retail In Asia – Different Strokes For Different Folks : Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, Jones Lang LaSalle India

Different Asian countries are at different stages of development of infrastructure, logistics capability and general real estate market development. Retailers are prevailed upon to tailor their local market strategies according to factors such as real estate locations, price points and available logistics. Such issues do not, as a rule, exist in developed world. The characteristics …

Asian Fusion: New Thinking and Actions for Improving Food and Nutrition Security in Asia

September 27, 2013, SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA – Country experience shared at a recent conference showed that fertilizer subsidies can have huge costs, crowding out public expenditures on agricultural research, extension, rural roads and other expenditures that promote agricultural development. The private sector is often more efficient in delivery of fertilizer to farmers. While historically the …

Asia Will Account for 70% of Incremental Energy Demand

Short domestic supplies will continue to drive China’s need for international energy deals Water and pipeline challenges limit China’s ability to exploit domestic shale gas While solar grows, coal will continue to dominate China’s energy mix For more information about the Meeting, please visit: http://www.weforum.org/newchampions Dalian, People’s Republic of China, 12 September 2013 – Today at the …

Big Screens for Less: Phablets Overtake Both Tablet and Portable PC Shipments in Asia in Second Quarter of 2013: IDC

Singapore and Hong Kong, August 30, 2013 – Smartphones with screen sizes of 5 to just under 7 inches, colloquially known as “phablets”, overtook shipments of each of the portable PC and tablet device categories in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of 2013. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile …

Nifty closes below 5,700; Realty, power stocks drag

The Nifty ended below 5,700 for the first time since June 27, 2013 amid selling across sectors. This is the eight straight fall for the benchmark indices. Today’s decline was led by realty, power, metals, capital goods, FMCG and banking stocks. Even midcap and small cap stocks were under pressure. Bucking the negative trend were …

Asia in the 21st Century: The Potential for Sri Lanka

Presentation by Anoop Singh at the Sri Lanka Economic Summit July 9, 2013 On July 9, Anoop Singh, Director of the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department, delivered the keynote speech at the inauguration of the 2013 Sri Lanka Economic Summit, held in Colombo. The event was sponsored by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and had the …

mPowa fronts payment partnership kick

Partnerships being forged throughout the banking and ecommerce sectors in Asia  are making credit and debit card payments easier, more flexible and more mobile. At the forefront of the trend is the growing number of partnership deals being struck between mobile payment firms such as mPowa, and partners in banking, telecoms and retail. Such deals …