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Google Ads and Meta Ads continues to dominate remarketing index despite Apple’s privacy changes: AppsFlyer Performance Index 15

SINGAPORE, Oct 18, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - AppsFlyer the global attribution leader today released the 15th edition of its Performance Index, ranking the top media sources in mobile advertising. The first half of 2022, with its continuing privacy changes, economic downturn and post-Covid cooldown, has caused a reshuffling across the ecosystem.Consistent with Global findings, mid-sized Asia-Pacific (APAC) players are observed seizing the opportunity to gain market share as the top media sources lose ground.Media sources endeavor to prevail against tougher privacy on Retention IndexThe aftershocks created by Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework continue to generate major challenges for app marketers and media companies alike. Notably, both Google Ads and Meta Ads have lost ground on iOS due to Apple's privacy changes.However on the Android market, Google Ads and Meta Ads continues to maintain its domination throughout Southeast Asia thanks to its unrivaled scale. Both sources have been ranked on the power ranking and volume ranking of the AppsFlyer retention index across gaming and non-gaming categories.Despite this, the rankings do not reflect the fluct...

SPH gets rival offer from Hotel Properties, Ong Beng Seng, Temasek and Mapletree

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - A consortium involving Hotel Properties (HPL), businessman Ong Beng Seng, Temasek Holdings and Mapletree has made an offer to acquire Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) at $2.10 per share in cash. In an announcement on Friday (Oct 29) before the market opened, the consortium said it had on Thursday submitted to the SPH board an offer for all the shares of SPH via a scheme of arrangement. The consortium vehicle, Cuscaden Peak, is 40 per cent held by a HPL unit called Tiga Stars, 30 per cent by a Temasek portfolio company and 30 per cent by the Mapletree group. Mapletree is also a Temasek-linked entity. CLA owns property group CapitaLand, real estate assets in Australia and investments in the life sciences sector. It is the majority owner of CapitaLand Investments. Tiga Stars is 70 per cent owned by HPL and 30 per cent owned by Como Holdings. The latter is beneficially owned by Mr Ong, who is also the managing director and deemed controlling shareholder of HPL. The new offer for SPH is conditional, among other things, on the completion of the the company's demerger of its media business, which was approved by its shareholders last month. The offer price p...

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Showa Denko Announces Share Transfer with Change in Subsidiary

TOKYO, Apr 16, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - As stated in "Notice of Execution of Basic Agreement regarding Tender Offer over Subsidiary" as of March 4, 2021, Showa Denko K.K. (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") entered into a basic agreement setting forth among others, the application for 3,160,306 shares (hereinafter referred to as the "Applied Shares") of SHOKO CO., LTD. (Code number 8090, listed on the First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange; hereinafter referred to as "SHOKO"), the Company's consolidated subsidiary, among the shares of SHOKO owned by the Company, in a tender offer (hereinafter referred to as the "Tender Offer") for the common shares issued by SHOKO (hereinafter referred to as the "SHOKO Shares") with the Tender Offer being made by SKT Holdings Ltd., (hereinafter referred to as "SKTHD"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of iSigma Business Advancement Fund III Investment LLP managed and operated by iSigma Capital Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "iSigma Capital").Thereafter, the Company had applied the Applied Shares for the Tender Offer in accordance with the basic agreement above and the Tender Offer successfully ended on April 15, 2021.The Co...

Showa Denko Announces Notice of Execution of Basic Agreement regarding Tender Offer over Subsidiary

TOKYO, Mar 4, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Showa Denko K.K. (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") hereby announces that, as of today, the Company has entered into: (i) a basic agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Basic Agreement") setting forth the application for 3,160,306 shares of SHOKO CO., LTD. (Code number 8090, listed on the First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange; hereinafter referred to as "SHOKO"), the Company's consolidated subsidiary, among the shares of SHOKO owned by the Company, in a tender offer for the common shares issued by SHOKO (hereinafter referred to as the "SHOKO Shares"), that will commence on March 5, 2021, with such tender offer being made by SKT Holdings Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "SKTHD"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of iSigma Business Advancement Fund III Investment LLP (hereinafter referred to as "iSigma Business Advancement Fund III") managed and operated by iSigma Capital Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "iSigma Capital"); and (ii) a shareholder agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Shareholder Agreement") with iSigma Business Advancement Fund III that governs the handling of the SHOKO Shares owned by the Compan...

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One third of Hin Leong founder’s ships sold to repay debt: Sources

SINGAPORE (REUTERS) - About one third of the roughly 150 ships owned by companies controlled by Singapore tycoon Lim Oon Kuin and his family have been sold as part of efforts to repay billions of dollars of debt owed to creditors, two sources told Reuters. Accounting firm Grant Thornton, court-appointed supervisor of Xihe Holdings, put up several vessels for sale through shipbrokers in September last year. Xihe Holdings is owned by the Lim family and held the bulk of their fleet. The rest of the ships are majority-owned by Xihe Capital - currently under liquidation according to Singapore business registry records - and 10 single purpose companies. The ships owned by the Xihe group have been sold at prices of US$2 million (S$2.65 million) to US$3 million each for coastal barges and around US$30 million each for very large crude carriers (VLCCs), said the two sources. Buyers include Greek ship owners, one of the sources said. Further details, including the total sum of money raised so far, were not available. It is expected the rest of the ships will be sold by late this year, although some of them are tied up in various lawsuits as counterparties try to lay claim to the cargoes on t...