Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam together will account for about half of TikTok users in Asia-Pacific, excluding China. And all of those countries except Singapore will see their TikTok user base rise more than 10% this year.
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| Mar 28, 2023
The company also plans to expand its streaming service within Southeast Asia, with plans to move into markets like Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines. Prime Video is rebooting Japanese shows and livestreaming the World Bantamweight title fight in June, to win over audiences in Japan.
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| Apr 25, 2022
The Philippines will be the only other country in the region where Snap will grow by double digits (11.8%). Snap’s penetration among internet users in India will be 16.0% in 2022.
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| Jan 18, 2022
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With just 47% of its population online this year, India falls far behind Thailand (77.1%), Malaysia (80.3%), and the Philippines (60.2%) and has a way to go before reaching full connectivity. Worldwide, only the Middle East and Africa region has a lower internet penetration. In the US, 89.2% of the population will access the internet at least once per month this year.
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| Apr 30, 2022
Malaysia and the Philippines saw a smaller-than-expected rebound in retail sales growth of 2.0% and 4.8%, respectively, last year after a slowdown in 2020 (-6.1% and -7.0%, respectively). . Indonesia's 2021 retail sales growth was revised downward to -0.4% from the 3.7% growth estimated in Q2 2021.
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| Jan 28, 2022
The tie-up will also help Revolut’s expansion in Latin America and possibly India and the Philippines, per Bloomberg. Key context: Stripe processes payments in more than 135 currencies and in over 47 countries, making it an attractive provider for businesses with a growing global presence, like Revolut. The pandemic helped supercharge Stripe’s business.
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| Jul 7, 2022
But in several cases—including Brazil, Greece, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South Korea—more internet users had used voice tools to complete an action. Naturally, some respondents did both. Social media is a massive draw, but some users spend longer than others. In most Latin American and many Asia-Pacific countries, internet users spent more than 3 hours each day on social networking and messaging.
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| Oct 21, 2021
Among countries monitored by GWI, only the Philippines recorded a higher daily mobile time, at 5:45 this year. In contrast to a pattern seen in many other markets, ownership of both PCs and tablets rose by a couple of percentage points this year, to 49.4% and 33.6%, respectively. Time spent with desktops, laptops, and tablets also climbed, from 3:38 in H1 2020 to 3:55 in H1 2021.
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| Oct 21, 2021
Amazon and Meta contractor Edge Cable Holdings USA applied to operate a submarine cable linking the Philippines to California, after China Mobile (CMI) bowed out of the project.
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| Dec 20, 2021
The Philippines, India, and Indonesia will set the global pace in 2022. Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand will also crack the top 10. In the ecommerce penetration rankings, the results are diverse. Indonesia, the US, and Brazil are climbing. China, the UK, and South Korea will continue to lead. All Regions Are Set to Slow Down, but Some More than Others.
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| Feb 2, 2022
Only four countries in the world will produce faster growth rates than Southeast Asia’s combined figure, and two of them—the Philippines and Indonesia—are in the region. Five countries within the region—the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand—will rank among the top 10 markets measured by retail ecommerce sales growth.
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| Feb 22, 2022
It will launch in Malaysia and the Philippines in partnership with Visa. It’s in “late stage” talks with prospective collaborators to roll out in Vietnam and Indonesia. The opportunity: YouTrip has a good shot at adding SMB customers due to the large size of the market and its plans to provide a multi-currency card for businesses that operate in more than one country.
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| Dec 1, 2021
In late 2021, Southeast Asian nations connected domestic payment networks: Singapore, for example, built out interoperability with the Philippines’ central bank, India’s Unified Payments Interface, and Malaysia’s DuitNow to simplify cross-border transactions between app users in each country.
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| Feb 8, 2022
Smartphone penetration among internet users in the region will range from a high of 98.8% in Thailand to a low of 81.7% in the Philippines in 2022. This year, the number of Southeast Asia smartphone users will grow faster than the number of overall mobile phone users.
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| May 19, 2022
Facebook removed various fake accounts with links to individuals in China and the Philippines in 2020. Those accounts reached 280,000 with posts about domestic politics, military anti-terrorism activities, and proposed legislation, per The Guardian. What’s next?
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| Dec 20, 2021
Snap, of course, was the first to market with My AI, but TikTok is also testing a chat bot called Taco in the Philippines. And Meta has said that it's exploring chat bots. I think they're calling them AI agents on Instagram, on Messenger, and on WhatsApp as well. So there's certainly a lot of momentum around it.
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| Jul 20, 2023
This year, smartphone penetration among internet users in the region will range from a high of 98.8% in Thailand to a low of 81.7% in the Philippines. The smartphone’s dominance is growing in this mobile-first region. This year, the number of smartphone users in Southeast Asia will grow faster than the number of overall mobile phone users.
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| May 10, 2022
India will be the second-fastest-growing economy in Asia-Pacific based on ecommerce sales this year behind the Philippines. Steady double-digit growth will continue through 2025. It will hold onto fourth place in Asia-Pacific in terms of retail ecommerce sales this year, behind China ($2,784.74 billion), Japan ($168.70 billion), and South Korea ($142.92 billion).
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| Feb 24, 2022
It's a big deal in the Philippines. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Ooh. Max Willens:. Maybe that's a big part of it? It's absolutely not a big part of it. I just I know that that's true about August 24th. Marcus Johnson:. All right. Evelyn, you're up. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Okay, I have some more YouGov data.
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| Aug 31, 2023
Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines will lead the world. India and an inflation-skewed Argentina will round out the top five, and two more Southeast Asian countries—Malaysia and Thailand—will find their way into top 10. Indonesia, India, and Brazil will be the top growth stories among big countries.
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| Jul 29, 2022
And the Philippine language of Tagalo comes in fourth with 1.6 million. Vietnamese in fifth has 1.4 million speakers in America. Paul Verna:. Well, I think it's great that two languages are represented on this show and there are only two of us here. We have proper English and then we have ugly American.
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| Jul 10, 2023
Singapore, for example, expanded interoperability with the Philippines’ central bank, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and Malaysia-based DuitNow. These tie-ups typically charge lower fees and can be integrated in apps already on customers’ phones, providing a large advantage to homegrown providers.
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| Feb 9, 2022
Fourth fact, the Philippines has the most, I think the UK has the, I think we're in second, which is tragic. Philippines has the most at home karaoke boxes in the world. And final fact, Japan who have the most machines at nearly one karaoke machine for every 1,000 people. It's a country of about 120, 125 million folks.
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| Apr 13, 2023
It was at the end of the article, but they mentioned it's only being tested in the Philippines, which makes you wonder about potentially grievous privacy issues. And it really is hard to imagine this product making its way here to the US or even the EU anytime soon. It would be fought.
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| Jun 2, 2023