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Russia scandal fails to hurt Facebook profits

More than just a thumbs up for Facebook. Third quarter profits soared 79 percent And total revenue increased 47 percent to $10.33 billion. The bumper results partly thanks to money pouring into its advertising offerings. And bode well for the US tech sector. Commerzbank Global Financial Economist, Peter Dixon, said,

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Alibaba launches Digital Free Trade Zone in Malaysia!

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba launched a Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ), the first expansion of the company’s World Trade Platform outside China, on Friday in Sepang, Malaysia. It has been just one year since Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak first discussed about working together to

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Indonesia threatens to block WhatsApp over obscene content

(Reuters) – Indonesia on Monday vowed to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images were removed. WhatsApp, which is widely used in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, said message encryption prevented it from monitoring

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Jordan flies with FALCON

Jordan Chua left Mirum Kuala Lumpur as MD last month and is now Partner and Managing Director for the Malaysian office of FALCON Agency. He takes over from co-founders, Max-F. Scheichenost and Daniel Endres, who’ll focus on the regionalisation of the agency across key markets. Jordan will be part of the FALCON regional team

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Are Malaysian marketers blind to online advertising fraud?

The online advertising industry is a preposterous train wreck that must be changed, says Bob Hoffman, a former advertising executive. It’s a model that has only been around for a couple decades, but already questions are being raised over its effectiveness and legitimacy, while public frustration continues to rise. Bob

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Psoriasis sufferers not alone with Novartis campaign

Novartis Malaysia has launched “Not Alone with Psoriasis”, a digital campaign conceptualised by its digital agency Kingdom Digital. This initiative was rolled out in conjunction with World Psoriasis Day (WPD) 2017, which was celebrated on October 29. It is estimated more than 800,000 Malaysians are afflicted with Psoriasis. This campaign

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How to find profitable products on Alibaba to sell on Amazon

We receive a lot of junk mail everyday, but this gem got us thinking, and wanted to share with readers…. This experiment was inspired by the Quora question “Is it possible to find profitable products on Alibaba?” Dave Hamrick (no relation to Ham) has been an Amazon seller for three

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Staying Brand Safe in the digital wilderness

Those of you with kids ages of 4-10 may be familiar with a little pink pig called Peppa. This popular British cartoon series which captures the daily adventures of Peppa Pig was dragged into the issue of unsafe content when people began discovering versions of the cartoon on YouTube which

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Productivity tips to power your day

They say time and tide wait for no man. Time is a precious resource which is stretched thin for many working adults due to the barrage of deadlines faced daily. So how do we maximise the time at hand? How can we remove unnecessary time wasters and tackle the task

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