31 Jan 2001
| by RACHEL OLIVER, editor of Revolution
Seeing as it is the beginning of the year I thought I'd do a bit of
future gazing. Here's a prediction for you. Over time a handful of
offline companies will start to take over the customer relationship in
consumer-oriented e-commerce.
One of the things the web promised was the opportunity...
31 Jan 2001
| by RACHEL OLIVER
MSN has hired the help of Charlie Angels to help it promote its brand
throughout Asia. Jumping on the current craze surrounding the three
crime fighting glamour girls, MSN will be making a few of its own
appearances in the soon-to-be launched television version of the hit
movie, to be aired...
31 Jan 2001
What it does: CoolHot.com is a Singapore-based multi-player gaming
community that offers an integrated package of international, oriental
and web-based online games. Its three core services consist of the
PlayZone, Community Club, an area for chatting and forums, and CDShop.
Other features of...
31 Jan 2001
| by WOO YEE MING
The company behind the Hello Kitty phenomenon, Japanese giant Sanrio has
just launched its first official non-Japanese community portal, Sanrio
Town (www.sanriotown.com) dedicated to fans of its characters. Outblaze
has been chosen as the official provider of communication and
information services...
31 Jan 2001
The Guangdong Sports Development Corporation is investing Ausdollars 35
million (USdollars 19m) in the web, to drive national and international
interest in next year's National China Games. The Australian arm of
global web development agency CCG.XM has been appointed to develop the
web site....
31 Jan 2001
| by WOO YEE MING
The dotcom industry is currently in a shakeout stage and only the best
of the best will survive. In the earlier part of this year, investors
were throwing their money around and taking many young firms to IPO
before they were really ready. However, the market is now in the state
of correction...
31 Jan 2001
| by EDMUND LIN, an e-commerce leader at Bain & Company
Within the past 18 months hundreds of start-up e-tailing dotcoms have
been launched with great fanfare throughout Asia. Aiming to be the next
category killers in everything from flowers to furniture, the new
leaders of the retail revolution launched major online and off-line
marketing campaigns....
31 Jan 2001
| by WOO YEE MING
Tom.com has launched its Beijing voice portal, TOM Voice, the first
voice portal to hit Mainland China. TOM Voice combines voice
differentiation and transformation to grant its users voice activated
access to the internet.
The voice portal was developed by Beijing Super Channel Network,...
31 Jan 2001
Yahoo! Hong Kong has signed up with Level 3 Communications to use its
data centre and bandwidth facilities to provide digital media streaming
services over the internet. This will enable Yahoo! Hong Kong to deliver
movies, news ad live on-demand events.
31 Jan 2001
Real Media has partnered with Guiness World Records for exclusive
advertising and sponsorship sales on the www.guinessworldrecords.com.
Real Media's client portfolio already includes Doonesbury.com,
SocailNet.com, CultureFinder and Garfield.com.