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March 17, 2010 -- SINGAPORE -- PayPal and China UnionPay, China’s bankcard association, today announced that China UnionPay (CUP) card members will be able to use PayPal to shop online, representing a new opportunity for international retailers to sell to a large base of Chinese customers who, combined, hold 2.1 billion CUP cards.

“After years of being the export hub for the world, today marks the day that China is open for business as an import e-commerce market”

Over 1,000 New Jobs to Be Created

March 17, 2010 -- SINGAPORE -- PayPal today announced that it plans to double the number of employees in Asia Pacific from 1,000 currently to more than 2,000 by the end of the year. The company plans to add more than 100 new jobs at its international headquarters in Singapore.

“PayPal and China UnionPay Open the Global Marketplace to Chinese Consumers.”

But mobile Internet user growth is speeding up

NEW YORK (Mar. 17, 2010) -- Although the mobile markets in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) continue to expand at a healthy pace, the days of triple-digit subscriber growth are long past.

As subscriber bases solidify, it is now the mobile Internet user populations that are increasing rapidly, albeit from small bases.

Messaging currently offers marketers the greatest opportunity

NEW YORK (Mar. 17, 2010)—For marketers looking to break into mobile and get the most from their investment in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), targeting a more specialized audience may help them ring up dividends.

eMarketer projects that mobile ad spending will reach $11.8 million in Brazil, $6.4 million in Russia, $35.4 million in India and $223.2 million in China in 2010.

Singapore, January 05, 2010 – The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global organization leading the way in promoting the development and sustainability of mobile marketing, today announces its top 10 predictions for the mobile telecommunications industry in Asia for the coming year.

As 2009 comes to a close, the MMA looks forward to the next set of developments in the ever-changing Asian telecommunications scene.

Growing up: regionally-focused growth

Emerging mobile functionalities include Mobile Payment, Mobile Gaming, Mobile Healthcare and Mobile Music

Singapore, 23 November, 2009 – The Mobile Marketing Association, a global organization leading the way in promoting the development and sustainability of mobile marketing, and Solidiance, Asia's premier marketing & innovation strategy consulting firm, today jointly released a paper on the emerging trends in mobile communications growth in Asia.

New Asia-Based AWS Infrastructure Will Enable Businesses to Run Applications, Store and Process Data, and Better Serve Their End-Users Located in Asia

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2009-- Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010, enabling businesses to deploy compute and storage resources in close proximity to their end-users in the region.