A new ad network and more ways to sell you things through your phone are among the developments you should expect to see in the coming year. Mark Zuckerberg has built the world's largest startup. His is a giant company, for sure -- $5 billion-plus in revenue, a stock market value around $60 billion -- but it's as nimble as they come. Its engineers push out products and features at a near-constant pace, emboldened by posters around Facebook's campus that read, "Move fast and break things." … [Read more...] about Facebook: Five things to watch for in 2013
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Firms fret as Vietnam drops digits to meet mobile phone demand
changes next month to make way for a standardized phone numbering plan, but is struggling to get through to businesses hung up on how much it will cost them. The government abruptly announced changes to millions of phone numbers from March 1, keeping its business community on edge about forking out money to replace everything from shop front signage, banners on trucks and buses, and neon-lit taxi signs to business cards, letterheads, invoices and brochures. "The cost for fixing the phone numbers is terribly high, but the invisible costs could be higher," said Nguyen Kim Khanh, an executive of Taxi Group, Hanoi's biggest cab company. Taxi Group will need new signs and stickers on all 2,000 cabs in its fleet, but Khanh's worst fear is that regular clients may forget to update their cellphone address books. "We're worried about customers who may switch to other cabs if their first call to us cannot connect," she said. Cellphone usage is rising fast among Vietnam's 90 million … [Read more...] about Firms fret as Vietnam drops digits to meet mobile phone demand
Smart-phones are changing consumer behavior: Google
Smart-phones are changing consumer behavior: Google Hoang Phi By Hoang Phi - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Smart phones are inducing drastic changes in the consumer behavior and thus enterprises need to make changes as well to better approach their customers, Google experts told a press conference in HCMC on Tuesday. At the press conference, Google experts said smart-phones had become an indispensable part of life and that a smart-phone revolution was going on. According to a survey conducted by Google in the first quarter this year, the number of smart-phone users accounts for up to 20% of the total population of Vietnam. The report shows that up to 70% of the respondents said they used smart-phones to access the Internet while 50% said they wouldn’t leave home without taking the gadget along. This indicates enterprises could connect and approach new consumers if they know how to combine smart-phones into their business strategies. Simon Kahn, chief marketing officer … [Read more...] about Smart-phones are changing consumer behavior: Google
Mobile service providers fret over stricter regulations
Mobile phone service providers are concerned a proposal to tighten the management of prepaid accounts could hurt their business. Ministerial inspectors submitted the proposal to the Ministry of Information and Communications after an inspection last year found a number of mobile service retailers violating regulations. … [Read more...] about Mobile service providers fret over stricter regulations
Vietnamese abandoning landline phone service in droves
As many as 300,000 customers gave up their landlines in the first six months of this year, and analysts say the sector is facing imminent demise in the competition against cellular services. During the first six months, there were just 13,700 new landline subscribers, unable to offset the number of existing customers who have abdandoned the service, leading to a 1.8 percent decline compared to the same period last year, news website VnExpress reported Sunday, citing figures from the General Statistics Office. Landline users accounted for 11.2 percent of the 135.9 million telephone subscribers in Vietnam. The number of mobile phone subscribers, already around 50 percent higher than the population, rose 2.8 percent to more than 120 million. The report did not say how many mobile phone subscribers are really active users. Previous estimates by the Ministry of Information and Communications placed the number of landline phone customers at only 10 million, equal to 7.5 percent of all … [Read more...] about Vietnamese abandoning landline phone service in droves