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Jason Wincuinas
Dec 5, 2014

Wrap up: 9 things you need to know this week

HONG KONG - Here’s our weekly windup of key things that got us thinking and readers talking this week: a perplexing pun quash in China, app communities, nearly naked in Singapore, low-tier opportunity, Facebook video ads, Asian programmatic, Absolut music, digital war rooms and the year in review.

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