We’ve heard about the amazing work environment at Google HQ, but what about the conditions at their Singapore office? Well the Business Times team got a tour of Google Singapore (located in Shenton Way) recently and have quite a bit of nice things to say. Here are some of the hightlights: (more…)

Malaysia’s Adex is poised to grow 7.9% in 2010 from the estimated RM6.6 billion advertising expenditure in 2009. According to Carat Media Services (M) Sdn Bhd, the adex in January 2010 breached the RM500 million mark for the first time. This is a stark contrast from the 18% contraction recorded last year. (more…)

Have a Facebook fan page? You’re probably already aware of the nice looking stats available via Facebook Insights. But what if you wanted to track more than just your fans? Or gain comprehensive information like you’re used to with Google’s Analytics? In this article, Webdigi gives us a workaround on how to install Analytics on your Facebook fan page. (more…)

If you’re thinking of writing a press release, now may be a good time because PRWeb is having a limited promo until 28th February 2010, where they are giving a flat 25% discount on all their plans. The US$150 (regular $200) SEO Visibility plan looks interesting for getting one-way links from prweb.com (a PageRank 7 website), plus you also get US$75 Google Adwords credit (only works for new customers). More information here.

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Benjamin Edelman of Harvard Business School recently co-authored a paper entitled “Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and Funders”. In the paper, he concluded that Google makes US$497mil a year from typosquatting on the top 100,000 websites. (more…)

Driving along Malaysia’s North-South highway, one cannot help but be distracted by the many colourful billboards. Among the advertisers are mobile network providers - all of them claiming to have the “widest coverage”, “fastest 3G download” and “best quality”. Fortunately, this may soon change with the formation of an ads monitoring panel. (more…)

Microsoft’s 10-year partnership with Yahoo is now official. The news first broke out 6 months ago, after an aborted US$47 billion takeover by Microsoft in 2008. Last night, the company announced that they have obtained the green light from both US and European regulators. (more…)

Good God, I can’t believe we’re almost at the end of 2009 - time really flies! The last 2 months were pretty hectic for me, where I spent quite a bit of time and attention to help Locus-T prep their SEO and Google Adwords services. But I’m glad that things are moving quickly - we’ve recruited a handful of new staff, registered a company in Singapore, got an office and even managed to get the guys from Google to conduct some training. (more…)

In the spirit of 1Malaysia, Locus-T has launched a new campaign to help Malaysian companies promote their services using SEO, Google Adwords and social media marketing. Go check it out - http://www.1malaysia.net.my

They say the only thing constant in life is change. And I’ve gone through many changes in my business of SEO/Adwords consulting - some big, some small. Recently, I took a major leap and made LarryLim.NET part of Locus-T.com! (more…)