Market Overview: The Rise of Asia’s Mobile Messaging Apps

The emergence of mobile messaging apps has been one of the big tech – in fact any news category – stories of recent years. Both globally and in Asia.

Disrupting everyone from Telcos wedded to SMS revenue, to established social networks such as Facebook, to the Chinese government, apps have been a big hit with consumers. Continue reading “Market Overview: The Rise of Asia’s Mobile Messaging Apps”

Half a Billion New Smartphone Users Across China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia in 2014

According to latest forecasts from Mediacells, consumers in India and China alone will buy almost 600m smartphones in 2014, comprising half of the global total.

Smartphone penetration will grow fastest in China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia where half a billion new users will be added in 2014. Continue reading “Half a Billion New Smartphone Users Across China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia in 2014”