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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

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The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The middle man is called an ad network. Usually, there’s a middle man involved. Read more here.

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

In the case of Indonesia, this is overwhelming – 83-percent of Indonesian Millennials say they see themselves as entrepreneurs of the future. Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot. Let’s take a look at some of these findings: 1.

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[Singapore] LinkedIn Hits 1 Million Users In Singapore

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Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population. million) and the Philippines (1.5+

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[Event] DEMO Asia: Is Being Female A Handicap?

YoungUpstarts

We this question to three female founders from Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore – it is difficult to start up being a woman? HobbyMash is a social network that connects people according to hobby and location, allowing them to interact, collaborate, and meet up to do things they love. No, all three founders echoed.

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[Singapore][Event] ad:tech Singapore 2012 Shows Digital Future For Asia

YoungUpstarts

He points out: · Burberry’s stock price has risen 400% since they got their social media act together; · Content powers connections. Get the content right, and use the content to build the people network, and use that network to amplify content; and. · There really isn’t a “B2B” company.

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Mobile Community mig33 Announces Developer Program And Partnerships

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The company also introduced 12 new initial development partners, including China’s Kooky Panda , Indonesia’s Elasitas , India’s Nazara, Indigo Entertainment from India, as well as Singapore’s The Mobile Gamer. “They also have an engaged community ready to embrace social gaming,&# he adds.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We recently announced partnerships with Axis in Indonesia and Mobilink in Pakistan. Do you see Viber ever moving ‘up the stack’ and becoming a social network tying everything together, rather than a predominantly communications-focused service? We actually maintain good relationships with many carriers.

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