Realestate.com.au launches assault on Asian market – itsReal

source: The Australian 

ONLINE property classified leader Realestate.com.au (REA) has commenced a major assault on the Asian online real estate market, using two newly launched websites in Hong Kong and Dubai as a linchpin to expand in the region.

CEO Simon Baker at realestate.com.au AGM. Picture: Bob Finlayson

Chief executive Simon Baker told the company’s annual general meeting that its objective was “to become No1 or No2” in every market in which it operated.

The company was now the No1 online real estate player in Australia, Italy and Luxembourg, he said, with strong positions in a number of other markets, including the UK, through propertyfinder.com. However, the prospect of growth in the Asian market is attracting most of Mr Baker’s attention.

In September, REA – majority-owned by News Limited, publisher of The Australian – bought Hong Kong’s leading English language property publication, Square Foot magazine, and last month launched a sister online property brand, Squarefoot.com.hk.

Hypocol available in FACEBOOK via a FREE online shopping Mall – itsReal

Hypocol has adopted the FREE Business 3.0 online shopping systems which has developed by a Facebook user with all Facebook users in mind.

To get access to the Hypocol Store in FaceBook follow this Link, to adopt the application. Once in the application search under business name or product for Hypocol.

The good news for all facebook users that represent companies is that the application is FREE you are able to list details about your company, its products or services and also embed your buy buttons from your own payment portal to process the transaction.

The developer is open to any and all suggestions are useful to them in creating an even easier online shopping service ever without ruining the Facebook experience for every Facebook user.

First Meta – Aileen Sim – Singapore’s own Succesful Female Entrepreneur in Virtual World’s – itsReal

“…the rise of social networking. Virtual worlds are the ultimate social networking tools, allowing for rich, interactive and immersive communication and experiences. Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have grown tremendously popular and I believe that they will spill over into virtual worlds.” comments Aileen Sim of First Meta, Singapore

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This week in Virtual Worlds Weekly – it’sReal

Virtual Worlds Weekly – Volume 1, Issue 16 – June 15, 2007
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This Week’s News

Doppelganger Partners with Kitson and Rocawear
Two VCs Invest in Indian Virtual World Game Developer
Second Life to Have Standardized Voice Within Months
Playboy Opens Up in Second Life (includes exclusive interviews)
Faketown talks Fighting Carbon Emissions and Marketing in 2D (includes exclusive interviews)
MindArk Discusses China’s Upcoming World in Entropia (includes exclusive interviews)
Metabirds and Centric Discuss Second Life and HiPiHi (includes exclusive interviews)
Eduserv Invests £333,000 into Virtual Worlds Eduction Research
Children’s MMOs in the New York Times
Korea Establishing User-Created Content Censorship Rules
Open source Second Life add-ons still months away
Windlight Goes Open Source
Areae Picking Up Steam Prior To Launch

New Product News

Forterra’s New SDK Signals Shift from Service Company to Software Company
MEGACITY Creating Business-Friendly Virtual Tokyos
Empire of Sports, First Sports-Based Virtual World to Launch
Sony Announces Free Realms: Free-to-Play Virtual World
Update: Japan based Co-Core to launch Tokyo Reproduction Virtual World
MTV Launches Virtual Lower East Side: 5th Virtual World in 9 Months
Lego Universe Virtual World To Have Community Features?

Announcements

Virtual Worlds Fall Conference and Expo – October 10-11, 2007 – San Jose – Early Registration is now open –
VW Fall – Official Hotel Discount Set – book your room now.

Market Research

82 Percent of IT Leaders See Opportunity in Virtual Worlds
Analysts Predict Political Pullout From Virtual Worlds
Canadians Warming Up to Social Networking, Not Virtual Worlds
30 Percent of Top 100 Dutch Companies Involved in Virtual Worlds
Most Second Life Users Likely to Buy Virtual Goods
20 Percent of Interactive Agencies Look to Virtual Worlds

Briefly Noted

Virtual Worlds As Data Center Organizers?
Search for Missing Girl to Enter Second Life
Interview: Sparter Talks Virtual Gold Trade, Farming, and Property Rights
Who’s New to Second Life this Week (13 firms referenced)

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Ping.sg becomes official online media – itsReal

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Ping.sg is a community meta blog for Singapore bloggers. It aims to create a comprehensive and thorough database for blog entries written by local bloggers and/or with local interest. Ping.sg is a platform for bloggers to gain readership and for blog readers to discover new blogs of their interests,

Chua U-Zyn, creator of ping.sg said, “ping.sg is happy to be collaborating with them (BuyButtonz) as an official online media for this event. During the event, ping.sg would be broadcasting a live streaming via Ustream.tv of the event on our homepage. I believe that this would be a strong opportunity to promote ping.sg as a community platform for local bloggers..

Official Event Poster for BuyButtonz Launch – Sunday May 6th 2007

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JCPenney opens in Singapore…but only ONLINE – itsReal

That’s right, courtesy of the two directors directors, Kristoff Tan and David Hia who have retail experiences in Singapore and S.E.A.(Southeast Asia), JCPenney has arrived.

Not much makes me sit up and take notice, however the ad calmly displayed on the front page 0f the TODAY newspaper announcing JCPenny was open, did just that ! How quietly they made this happen, with a BIG brand from America is astonishing… So, JCPenny is here minus the Bricks & Mortar, sorry commercial property market consultants, lets observe and wish them well, Singapore’s hi-tech landscape should sustain the ventures mission.

Their Mission
To provide a destination, lifestyle quality experience to our community and to bring online shopping in Singapore to a new level.

Click HERE and save…up to 50% off on selected items

Prizes & Awesum Giveaways at the BuyButtonz Fair & Flea Market May 6 2007

The requests for stalls are arriving daily…the buzz is building…do come along and support the first of many events from BuyButtonz.com at Far East Plaza Atrium Singapore…

…check out of promotional Posters…

BuyButtonz.com – Now anyone can sell online!

Should Google ever stop Growing ?- Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1B CASH

Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.

The sale offers Google access to DoubleClick’s advertisement software and, more importantly, its relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies.