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Kaspersky Wins Asia Entrepreneur Award

Kaspersky (Russia) Lab CEO wins Asian entrepreneur award. Russian secure management solutions firm Kaspersky Lab’s co-founder and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, has won the Asia Entrepreneur Alliance (AEA) International Distinguished Entrepreneur as CEO of growth and expansion

According to Eugene Kaspersky, the award gives the company a boost in confidence to capture even more market share in Malaysia and the rest of the Asia Pacific

“Currently, Kaspersky Lab holds about 50 per cent of the personal information technology software market in Malaysia and is looking to increase its share of market in 2010,” said Kaspersky. “The brand offers wide-ranging protection against all forms of threats such as viruses, spyware, hackers and spam. It protects more than 300 million systems globally ranging from work, home and mobile users.”

“This recognition would not have been possible without the team of Kaspersky Lab in the Asia Pacific,� he said. “The time and effort that they have invested in the products, services, and goodwill of the brand is simply mind blowing. The partners in the region also played important roles in making all achievements possible. My sincere thanks and appreciation to all.”

Asia Entrepreneur Alliance (AEA) is an international not-for-profit business organisation which consists of entrepreneurs from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, India, Australia, the US and Africa

The AEA-International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award is organised by Asia Entrepreneur Alliance (AEA) and Global CEO Magazine with one purpose, which is to recognise and celebrate the accomplishments of the top entrepreneur and business leaders in Asia

Skype CEO Sees Growth in Middle East and Asia

Skype CEO Sees Growth in Middle East and Asia. Skype CEO Continues To See Growth In Middle East; Bets Big On Asia

Internet calling service Skype Ltd. Tuesday said that it continues to see growth opportunities in the Middle East despite being banned in parts of the area and is optimistic about the company’s growth potential in Asia.

“There are a couple of governments that officially banned Skype…but what we see in most of the developing world (is that) they are embracing Skype,” Chief Executive Officer Josh Silverman told Dow Jones Newswires.

Silverman is in Singapore to attend the CommunicAsia Conference that began Tuesday.

“I would say, we see growth in the Middle East in general,” Silverman said without getting into details on the ban of the service in the United Arab Emirates.

Currently, Skype cannot be downloaded in Oman, the UAE and Kuwait, although the software can be used if it is previously installed on a computer. The UAE Telecommunication Regulatory Authority said in March that Skype will be allowed to offer a greater range of services in the country if they are partnered with existing licensed telecom operators.

Silverman said that Skype sees strong growth potential in the Asia Pacific as the region has become globally connected due to an increasing number of expatriates and growing international trade.

“Special to Asia is that many people are having their first internet experience on a smart phone. So a big focus of ours is for them to have a really compelling experience,” Silverman said.

Skype has over 500 million registered users around the world and is adding 300,000 users a day. The company aspires to have 100 million personal computers shipped with Skype preloaded in 2011. Silverman declined to give growth projections by region.

Silverman said that his company was keen to offer Skype to BlackBerry and other mobile platforms in Asia. In February, Verizon Wireless announced that it was offering the Skype application on smartphones in the U.S.

On China, Silverman said that Skype’s local partner Tomonline was helping it comply with government regulations and that there was demand from Chinese making cross-border calls.

“We think being part of a global conversation is very important for Chinese citizens, entrepreneurs and Chinese families,” Silverman said.

He would not comment on whether his company plans a listing, saying only that Skype is profitable and has enough money for acquisitions “if it makes sense.”

Standard Chartered Bank Launch Women Business Resource Centre

Standard Chartered Bank to launch Women in Business Resource Centre, an online tool designed to help women entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses

The online Resource Centre is currently available in seven languages, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Hindi and Bengali

The online tool has  been specifically designed for women entrepreneurs, around topics such as influence and negotiation, marketing to female consumers and the right reasons for scaling up one’s business

Source: Borneo Bulletin

Read Full Story Here: Standard Chartered To Launch Website To Help Women Entrepreneurs

Internet Retail Sales Europe 2010

The European Union is considering a regulation change that would require online etailers in Europe to also own a brick and mortar store

Shopping online has been becoming more popular in Europe over the past few years as they have been hit by an economic recession, which has forced many consumers to visit Internet retail sites for their purchases

Overall for Europe, it is expected that online retail sales will jump almost 20%, most of which coming from countries catching the online shopping craze like Spain, France, and Poland

As more consumers remain conscious of their budgets, it is likely that this online shopping trend will continue in Europe. This means that the brick and mortar retailers need to find a way to combat the shift towards online spending

If nothing else, every brick and mortar store should consider adding an online retail site to their portfolio to try and increase the likelihood that they will generate enough sales everyday

Investors and industry analysts in Europe will continue to watch this trend as it could alter the retail landscape in the region as consumers change their shopping methods

Quickstart SEO for Small Business

Think of Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines as customers,  and each page of your site as a box. Your customers want to know what’s in the box, what shelf it’s on and the address of your store. Simple, right?

Google lays out the nitty-gritty on best way to do that in a downloadable Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide as well as on its Webmaster Central pages. But here are some quick-start tips.

Find it. Every page of your website has an address, or URL. When possible, keep the address short and clean–without equal signs, punctuation characters or underscores–and use detailed keywords that are relevant to the page. So example.com/buy-blue-hats-on-sale is better than example.com/cgi-bin/gen.pl?id=4&view=blue_hats_are_on_sale

Flatten it. All pages need to link to one another–but you want to keep things as “flat” as possible, meaning that each page can be accessed with only one or two mouse clicks.

Name it. You might overlook the title bar atop each browser window, but search engines don’t. Give each page a concise, unique, keyword-driven title. If you sell knit beanies, don’t title your page “Keep your head warm.”

Explain it. In the description field, enter a few sentences about the content of that page. Think of it as the text in a catalog. What makes your blue beanies special? Are they alpaca wool?

Map it. Your customers would really love to have a map to all the boxes in your store, called an XML site map. Don’t know XML from an X-Box? No worries. There are plenty of software programs that can do the job.

Tag it. You’d be confused if this article didn’t have a headline, right? Without an h1 heading tag on each page of your website, search engine crawlers have trouble understanding content, too.

Make Money Online Business 2010

eBiz eCommerce  Internet Shop – Are you primed and ready to make money this year?

With 2010 already underway, have you put a plan in place to promote your business and maximize your success?

Here are ten quick, easy-to-implement things you can do that will guarantee your online business will be making you money this year

Source: OPEN Forum – Small Business
Read Whole Article Here: 10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Online Business Money

Asia Entrepreneurs Top Tips For 2010

Entrepreneurship Asia – small business owners tips to gain a competitive edge in 2010

We recommend that small businesses work on growing their customer base. To accomplish this, we advise entrepreneurs to understand your customer demographics and create diversified products

Asian entrepreneurs should set aside time to organize. By setting a time each week to handle routine tasks, like updating phone numbers and scheduling appointments, small business owners can set a regimen for success

We also recommend SMEs & MBs add ecommerce through a website. We encourage small business owners to add a shopping cart to your sites so you can make sales online, in addition to promoting your brand.