Digital

Shanghai - OgilvyOne China has reworked its senior creative ranks, promoting Johan Vakidis as national creative director of digital and Laifong Siew, former creative director at Wunderman Shanghai, as creative director for its Shanghai operations.

Shanghai - WPP's digital investment arm WPP Digital, has taken a minority stake in advertising and technology company HDT Holdings.

Shanghai - Procter & Gamble has extended its relationship with Nurun China, appointing the agency to create a digital strategy for its Pringles snacks brand.

Singapore - Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has launched an online consumer generated media (CGM) campaign conceptualised by Patroids Creative Works.

Japan - MTV Networks Japan's international and Japanese content will be available on Niwango's ‘Nico Nico Douga' online video sharing service.

Global - Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) has launched SMG Search, a search marketing resource that offers Starcom's clients search marketing capabilities as part of an integrated strategic media offering.

Global - Two months after its initial offer was rejected, Microsoft has turned up the heat on Yahoo!, threatening to go hostile if its deal is not met within three weeks.

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Malaysia - Mobile value added services company MNC Wireless has entered into a partnership with Cellebrum.com India to jointly undertake R&D, production and marketing of digital content and services for mobile phones.

Hong Kong - China's Focus Media has denied accusations its mobile subsidiary, Focus Media Wireless, has been sending millions of junk messages to mobile users.

Hong Kong - In its first year of a three-year sponsorship deal for the Hong Kong Sevens, Guinness has rolled out a mobile campaign under the theme 'Moments of Greatness' aimed at business professionals aged 25 to 45 years.

Beijing - Neo@Ogilvy has partnered with Baidu to provide a keyword management tool that will allow existing clients to launch and track Chinese language search marketing campaigns much more effectively.

Singapore - SPH Search's global web results will now be powered by Yahoo Search technology as it prepares itself for launch in the next few weeks.

Singapore - As part of Kaplan Singapore's plans to create an online presence which merges its APMI Kaplan, Kaplan Financial and Kaplan Professional businesses, the company has appointed Yolk as its interactive and digital marketing agency for the year.

Hong Kong - Facebook has overtaken Chinese language social networks such as Xanga and UWants as the top social network with a 37.72% share in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong - Benjamin Grubbs, eBay marketing director is leaving his role after two years in the top job to join Turner Entertainment as its regional director of interactive media.

Singapore - Direct marketing company Responsys has set up its Asia headquarters in Singapore to serve multinational marketers targeting the Asia Pacific region.

Hong Kong - Nike has kicked off the online component of its "This is Love" campaign, launching a viral movie via Facebook, targeting young women aged 15 to 20 years.

Singapore - Pixel Media has hired Huang Shan Shan and Serena Low as regional business manager and sales manager respectively, and extended its SE Asian ad network through a partnership with Yehey.com, an online portal from the Philippines.

The long running "nude photo scandal" involving a swag of Hong Kong pop stars has shown just how fast scandal can spread around the net. But it also highlights the murky areas of online privacy and censorship.

Beijing - Search engine advertising and in-game promotions pushed China's online advertising market up 75% to RMB10.6 billion in 2007, according to a new report.

Shanghai - Omnicom has hired Jason Kuperman, former MD of Agency.com in Shanghai, to lead its digital operations across the region.

How one app developer leveraged on his business network of media owners to enter the realm of creating social networking applications for companies.

Hong Kong - Zuji Hong Kong has kicked off a viral marketing campaign aimed at driving repeat purchase and building brand awareness for the online travel company.

Global - Yahoo! has rejected a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft, arguing the US$44.6 billion offer "substantially undervalues" the internet company.

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