Rocket Internet?s Asia Price Comparison Venture, Pricepanda, Continues Its Regional March

Pricepanda, the Rocket Internet-fuelled South East Asian online price comparison venture founded in May this year and rumoured to be backed by less than ?10 million ($12.8 million), has added Indonesia to its nascent family of sites -- having kicked off with Pricepanda launches in Malaysia and Singapore earlier this autumn.

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Gin Wigmore Looks To James Bond For U.S. Success

New Zealand singer/songwriter's 'Man Like That' is featured in a new 007/Heineken commercial.
By James Montgomery

Gin Wigmore
Photo: MTV News

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1695301/gin-wigmore-man-like-that-james-bond-heinekin.jhtml

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DQ, Foothill Partner for 'Raz & Benny' | Animation Magazine

October 9, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan

Global entertainment company DQ Entertainment and Foothill Europe Limited have announced an agreement to develop, co-produce and distribute CG-animated buddy comedy Raz & Benny. The multi-faceted agreement covers development, financing, production and distribution for the series as well as exploitation of ancillary rights. The partners will kick off their efforts by debuting a promo produced by DQ at the MIPCOM market.

Jo Kavanagh-Payne, Managing Director of Foothill Europe commented, ?We have long admired DQ?s work and have been seeking just the right project on which to work with them. We are delighted that we finally get the opportunity on Raz & Benny.?

The 52 x 11 3D CG show is created by U.K.-based director Simon Hodgkiss of Rockkiss DME and follows two mice whose ambitions are bigger than their brains, but whose good luck is as endless as their friendship. With their eccentric pal Lilly, dare-devil Raz and cautious Benny are always off on one adventure or another?whether posing as international spies, scuba-diving submarine rescuers or jungle explorers.

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Source: http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/dq-foothill-partner-for-raz-benny/

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Commercial banks must be innovative to lure deposits, SCB exec ...

Home ? business ? Commercial banks must be innovative to lure deposits, SCB exec says

FIGHTING FOR FUNDS

SUCHEERA PINIJPARAKARN
THE NATION October 2, 2012 1:00 am

Marketing their products on price is difficult for commercial banks because they had to pay the 0.46-per-cent fee to the FIDF as well as 0.01 per cent to the Deposit Protection Agency (DPA) midyear and will pay again at year-end, said Smith Banomyong, executive vice president of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB).

He said the state-owned banks had offered features with deposit products to attract customers. For savings deposits, depositors of state-owned banks are not required to pay withholding tax even if they earn interest higher than Bt20,000, unlike the policy for commercial banks.

The state-run Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives promoted new 16-month fixed deposits with an interest rate of 4 per cent per annum. The average interest is 3.4 per cent per annum, and the minimum investment required is only Bt50,000, with depositors not required to pay the withholding tax.

For SCB, innovation is the key strategy to attract customers, Smith said. Yesterday it introduced a 12-month fixed-deposit product to lure self-employed customers.

The bank wants to attract new depositors, especially business owners who want the flexibility of withdrawing cash from a fixed-deposit account without fee payment for up to 60 days and receiving interest of 3 per cent per annum. The minimum required deposit is Bt500,000 and the maximum Bt50 million.

He said the bank aimed for the new product to attract Bt40 billion in deposits by the end of the year, half from new self-employed customers. Currently the bank serves 40,000-50,000 self-employed customers out of a total 100,000 affluent clients.

SCB defines an affluent customer as a person who has assets under management of Bt3 million and above.

SCB this year targets deposit growth of 20 per cent or Bt240 billion. The bank mobilised deposits of Bt180 billion in the first nine months.

Smith said the competition for deposits remained furious because of high lending growth, while of bills of exchange had been made unattractive by the requirement for payment of the same DPA premiums as deposits. Net growth of deposits this year has only been 3-4 per cent compared with 13-14 per cent in lending growth.

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Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Commercial-banks-must-be-innovative-to-lure-deposi-30191491.html

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make money online: Raise Sales With Local SEO Services

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experienced a number of modifications to 2011 and we anticipate this trend to continue in 2012. Local SEO services is a technique employed by digital marketers to modify a website's google page rank in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. A greater search ranking can result in additional targeted visitors to the website, more possible sales leads, and a new and improved authority in comparison with the competitors. One of the major benefits of an excellent SEO plan is that your web-site will get a substantially larger number of organic or natural traffic.

Instead of investing in a pay-per-click or cost-per-impression marketing campaign on one of the main networks, you can rely on natural traffic that is typically more targeted than someone who is merely simply clicking an advertisement. Local SEO services must keep in tune with all the new methods and components that effect a site's rank in order to stay relevant.

Social - it's been mentioned by Bing (not yet by Google) that social signs play an effect for the position of a site inside the web engine. This will include items like Facebook likes, Tweets containing the site link, or even social bookmarks like Digg Digg or Reddit. Local SEO services should recognize that many of these send signs that users are communicating on the site and giving it elevated credibility. Your website should have a viral component that makes people want to share the material and message that it produces.

Google+ - Google+ is the online social network put together by Google to combat Facebook online. It was announced in early 2012 that Google was moving to include all G+ content within search engine results. Local SEO services can advise you that if someone within your network shares a link or website that is related to what you are looking for, that might come up before the actual organic result. There are many detractors to this who consider them to be running a monopoly on search and removing the relevancy of natural or organic results, but it will remain a major ranking factor for all sites.

Mobile - Mobile will be one of the main trending ranking factors in 2012 as we will continue to see a revolution in internet enabled devices like smart phones, tablets, and other items. If a user attempts to access your site and you do not have a mobile version enabled, then you will not benefit in the ranking area. Mobile users who attempt to visit the site and then immediately leave raises your bounce rate which can signal that the content is not relevant to what they were searching for.

Source: http://freigeld.blogspot.com/2012/10/raise-sales-with-local-seo-services.html

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UN urges protection for elderly as world grays

TOKYO (AP) ? The U.N. Population Fund has urged governments to build safety nets to ensure that older people have income security and access to essential health and social services as the world's elderly population grows.

The U.N. agency said discrimination toward and poverty among the aged are still far too prevalent in many countries. It released its report Monday in Tokyo, capital of the world's fastest-aging country.

The problem is worst for women, whose access to jobs and health care is limited, along with their rights to own and inherit property, it said.

The report said one in nine people, or 810 million people, are 60 or older, a figure projected to rise to one in five by 2050.

Within 10 years, those 60 and over will exceed 1 billion.

Associated Press

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Concept Aquatic Rover May Explore a Lake On Titan

I'm going to complain here, because no-one else cares...

One of my pet hates is that when the media publishes a measurement, they will give both metric and imperial, and will calculate it to ridiculous significant figures.

For instance, this imaginary robot might weigh, you know, round about 100 kilo - which is 220.5 lbs! Yep, they know know the measurements to the nearest 10th of a pound, but coincidentally it happens to be a really round figure in metric terms.

Rant over. Feel free to ignore.

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