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China Mobile’s Fetion Public Account Platform – Advantages

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What is the Significance of China Mobile’s recently launched a Fetion public account platform ? The basic feature of the platform is straightforward in that users are able to add a public account as a friend. A large number of derivative services have been developed by account operators, leveraging Weixin’s features such as multimedia interaction and an internally HTML5-enabled internet browser.

These services include:
RSS-like feeds Media accounts such as Donews or Techweb push articles everyday to followers.

Mini tools This type of account allows users to take notes or arrange appointments by interacting with the account. E.g. Users send text or voice message to an Evernote Weixin account and the content is stored.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Brands are able to use their Weixin accounts to communicate with customers on a one-on-one basis. Clients of China Merchants Bank are able to quickly check their credit card status via CMB’s Weixin account.

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How Mobile News Apps like of Sohu are Making a Killing ?

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Mobile News AppThe mobile news app market is an area of particularly intense competition amongst many internet Giants from Google to Sohu, Baidu, Times of India etc. According to Analysys International, Sohu’s app claimed a 31.8% market share in terms of cumulative downloads from the major app stores by 1Q13.

Sohu’s business model for Mobile News App is of Particular interest for us. The cumulative downloads of Sohu News is more than 5m at present, while the figure is roughly 1m for NetEase and Phoenix New Media and 0.5m for Sina.

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How to Install Perl Packages Without PPM of ActiveState ?

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This Post is strictly not Web 2.0. I had to write this to let others know how top install PPM [Perl Package Manager, GUI Interface] without the ActiveState Login. If you’ve been using ActiveState Perl, then you could have easily upgraded using ppm on the command prompt. However, when I tried, I got the following … Read more

Mobile Chipset – Fabless getting Faster and Better

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China produced over 800mn smartphones in 2012 and 226mn smartphones. China’s smartphone output should exceed 400mn in 2013 with exports reaching 60-80mn. At the same time, Mediatek expressed confidence that its quad-core chipsets can enable China OEMs to sell smartphones with similar specs to the Samsung Galaxy S3 at one third of the price.

Meanwhile, ARM has showcased its big.LITTLE chipset, a game changer in the performance/power race. As big.LITTLE finds its way into low-priced phones, we expect chipset ASPs to fall even further, albeit with higher volumes. With big.LITTLE chipset expected in tablets this year (10m targets) and in phones perhaps next year (with an integrated chipset) and LTE modem ramping in Q4Cheaper chipsets could ultimately accelerate tablet demand in China and other EMs, as consumers move away from notebooks.

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China’s Mobile Music Market Tops $ 6Bn

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China’s mobile music market totaled USD 6 Bn as of 2012, up 8.5% YoY. The number of mobile music users topped 832m ( the figure also includes those subscribers who obtain mobile music service through MMS and SMS). This can be attributed to the fact that mobile phones have become common music playing devices, and … Read more

Rising Use of Mobile for E-Commerce in China – Report

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According to CNNIC, online shopping transactions in China reached RMB1.26t in 2012, up 67% YoY and representing 6.1% of the country’s total retail sales. The country’s online shopping population reached 242m (up 25% YoY), representing a 43% penetration rate of the total online population. Mobile shoppers saw much stronger growth. The number of those conducting e-commerce on mobile devices increased by some 137% YoY, reaching 55.4m as of 2012

Over 56% of total online shoppers spent more than RMB1,000 in the year, while some 6.8% of them spent as much as RMB10k online. Meanwhile, people tended to make online purchase more frequently than 2011.

A majority of users made payments through online banking or third party payments,

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AAC Riding the SmartPhone Boom with Innovation

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AAC the Mobile / Tablet Sound Solutions operations appear to have seen some improvement but it is still undergoing restructuring. While Sound Solutions should be better placed than a year ago, regaining meaningful share may prove to be challenging given uncertainties over ongoing restructuring. We believe that AAC is maintaining its lead with its competitive … Read more

Social Advertising yet to be leveraged fully

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In our view, a majority of current social ads are just “ads on social platforms” rather than “social-enabled ads”. These advertisements seem to boast no prominent differences with display ads on other online platforms (e.g. portals), which are primarily delivered on the back of user reach and visits. Currently, social-oriented platforms still do not seem to have efficiently leveraged the social / interest analytics graphs of their users, although some pioneers (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) have been actively testing new ad formats to target better.

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Oracle CloudWorld Mumbai – Key Excerpts

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Here are the key excerpts from the Oracle CloudWorld held in Mumbai,

Cloud based applications in Human Capital Management (HCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) are being widely accepted by clients, which is driving the growth in cloud-based applications. On the other hand, onpremise applications continue to dominate the ERP market, due to data security issues. ERP has a larger market share in the package implementation market.

Incrementally, larger organisations are opening up to cloud offerings, particularly in HCM and CRM. Cloud-based applications are more standardised and they offer a relatively lower scope for customisation as compared to on-premises applications. Earlier, large organisations were less flexible in adopting customised applications, but incrementally, they are adopting standardised solutions with some minor customisations.

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