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OOm Secures Noteworthy Position in Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies 2024 List

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 30 January 2024 – Following the remarkable success of its prior achievements, OOm is proud to announce its inclusion in the prestigious Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies 2024 list. The company’s significant leap in ranking from the previous year reflects its commitment to digital marketing excellence and strong financial performance.

OOm Singapore's Fastest Growing Companies in 2024
OOm Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2024

A Rigorous Assessment by The Straits Times and Statista
Organised by The Straits Times and Germany-based global research firm Statista, the report on Singapore’s Fastest-Growing Companies has gained widespread recognition for highlighting companies with outstanding revenue growth annually. The team meticulously evaluated a myriad of companies, resulting in the compilation of an exclusive list of 100 top-performing businesses in Singapore.

To be eligible for inclusion, companies must meet stringent criteria, including a minimum revenue of SGD150,000 generated in 2019, a substantial increase to at least SGD1.5 million in 2022, independence from other entities, and a headquarters based in Singapore. Furthermore, the evaluation emphasised organic revenue growth, ensuring that the companies listed have achieved their success through internal development and enhancement.

OOm’s Leap in Ranking and Workforce Expansion
In the latest rankings, OOm is delighted to secure the 32nd position, showcasing a marked advancement from its previous standing in 2023 (47th). Notably, OOm’s success is not limited to financial metrics alone; the company has also experienced a significant increase in its workforce, demonstrating its promise to expand and strengthen its operations.

As OOm continues to strengthen its position as a leading digital marketing agency, this recognition in Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies list reaffirms its dedication to delivering value, driving organic growth, and achieving innovation in a highly competitive industry.

Ian Cheow, CEO and Co-founder of OOm, expressed his enthusiasm about the achievement, “Being recognised in Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies 2024 list is a testament to OOm’s resolve to achieve sustained growth and excellence, as demonstrated by our ascent in the ranking. We are proud of our team’s efforts in driving our success and look forward to even greater accomplishments in the future.”

Wyvan Xu, COO and Co-founder of OOm, added, “This achievement reflects the collective devotion of our team, and it motivates us to continue innovating and delivering exceptional results for our clients. We are grateful for the recognition and excited about the opportunities that lie ahead.”

Hashtag: #OOm #DigitalMarketingAgency #AwardWinningDigitalMarketingAgency #FastestGrowingCompaniesSingapore2024





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About OOm

Since its establishment in 2006, OOm has emerged as a force in the realms of e-commerce and digital marketing, earning its position as one of the industry’s leading enterprises.

OOm also proudly achieved the prestigious status of being named a Premier Google Partner. This recognition places OOm in the league of the top 3% esteemed Google partners in Singapore and underscores its commitment to excellence for being at the forefront of the industry. As , OOm stands at the forefront of a dynamic SEO landscape backed by a team of seasoned SEO professionals. OOm is dedicated to deliver results-driven solutions that meet the unique needs of the client.

Additionally, OOm is a pre-approved PSG vendor for e-commerce PSG solution, providing businesses with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age. SMEs can tap into this funded support to kickstart their digital initiatives and propel their growth in today’s competitive market.

At its core, OOm is a full-fledged digital agency that specialises in crafting bespoke marketing campaigns for clients through services such as SEO, Google marketing solutions, website development, social media marketing solutions, and more.

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Teaology: The Clean Beauty Tea Infusion Skincare from Italy launches in Watsons Singapore

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 30 January 2024 – Teaology is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated launch in Watsons Singapore. Since its inception, Teaology has embraced the clean beauty ideology, introducing Clean BeauTEA as their foundational philosophy which encapsulates the brand’s core values and ethics, serving as daily inspiration for the brand. Teaology marks the advent of a skincare revolution powered by its patented Tea Infusion Skincare technology. The innovative process involves replacing water in cosmetic formulas with genuine tea infusion, effectively preserving antioxidant properties inherent in tea leaves. With its unique formulation comprising 0% water and 100% tea infusion, Teaology features clean ingredients, sustainable packaging, clinically tested efficacy, commitment to vegan and cruelty-free practices, and has been certified by B CORP.

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Clean beauty is a burgeoning trend that has gained remarkable traction in recent years, placing a strong emphasis on the use of products that are free from harmful chemicals and toxins, opting instead for the inclusion of natural and safe ingredients. This movement is fueled by consumers’ increasing awareness of potential hazards associated with some cosmetic ingredients, driving them to seek alternatives without compromising on the product quality and effectiveness.

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1. Matcha Tea Ultra-Firming Face Cream ($86.70) [SHOP NOW]
An ultra-firming anti-wrinkle face cream infused with organic Matcha tea infusion and a potent complex of 9 botanical ingredients, designed to deliver redensifying, corrective, and lifting effects. The velvety texture of this innovative cream instantly enhances skin, leaving it softer and more radiant. Its natural green hue along with special mineral pigments promotes corrective action on chromatic imperfections and creates a smoothing “soft focus effect” for an even complexion. Beyond its anti-aging properties, it serves as an intensive treatment that redensifies, illuminates, and refines your skin.

2. Matcha Tea Ultra-Firming Eye Cream ($60.45) [SHOP NOW]
Infused with Organic Matcha Tea, Hyaluronic Acid, Caffeine, and Vitamin C, Matcha Tea Ultra-Firming Eye Cream brightens eye contour, reduces puffiness, and promotes toning. It features an ophthalmic applicator for a more targeted and precise application. The matcha green texture minimises redness, providing an ideal flawless base for makeup. Enriched with double-dose Vitamin C, Acerola, and Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, it also combats free radicals and offers effective anti-wrinkle benefits.

3. Serum Infusion ($40.25) [SHOP NOW]
A collection of unique serums infused with real antioxidant organic tea and the most powerful skincare ingredients. Super-concentrated and clean formulas with biocompatible pH that can be used alone, layered under any face cream or mixed to create the perfect cocktail for a healthy and happy skin.

4. Bancha Oil ($55.40) [SHOP NOW]
When a silky oil meets the Japanese Bancha Tea leaves in infusion, the result is an elixir of beauty for face, body, hair and a thousand other uses. An antioxidant, nourishing and illuminating concentrate with 99% of natural origin ingredients. This versatile oil is your beauty essential for various needs, including nourishing body, protecting chapped skin, enhancing foundation with added nourishment, highlighting cheekbones, nose, and cupid’s bow, serving as a pre-shampoo treatment, reducing hair frizz, and more!

5. Happy Skin ($60.45) [SHOP NOW]
Introducing the multifunctional beauty balm, a revitalizing solution for face, neck, and eye contour. Enriched with Blue Tea Infusion, ceramides, and niacinamide, this all-in-one treatment repairs stressed and dehydrated skin. Comprising 95% natural ingredients and plant ceramides, it restores the skin’s balance, enhancing tone, elasticity, and luminosity. This versatile balm serves as a daily nourishing cream, regenerating mask, and provides instant relief for dryness and inflammation.

Teaology is solely distributed at Watsons stores and online. For a limited time, enjoy 2 for 20% off on all Teaology products and receive a complimentary travel-set valued at $55 with a minimum purchase of $60, while stocks last.

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Hashtag: #Teaology #WatsonsSingapore

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About Teaology

Teaology founder, Cecilia Garofano, embarked on a journey in the romantic landscapes of Italy that would blend her years of experience in the cosmetics industry with her unwavering love for tea. Teaology believes in the mantra “What is good for you is good for your skin”, with its products enriched with real tea infusions and extracts, harnessing the antioxidant power of tea leaves to protect and rejuvenate the skin. For more information on Teaology and its products, visit

About Watsons

Watsons is Asia’s No. 1* Personal Care and Beauty Offline+Online Retailer, with close to 100 stores islandwide and the flagship health and beauty brand of the AS Watson Group. It continually sets the standard in health, wellness and beauty by providing personalised and related advice and counselling to customers and a market-leading product range in their offering, so that they can ‘LOOK GOOD, DO GOOD, FEEL GREAT’ every day.

Other accolades and awards received include Omnichannel Strategy of the Year 2023 – Singapore and Health & Beauty Retailer of the Year – Singapore consecutively from 2021 – 2023 by Retail Asia Awards and ‘Best HR Digital Transformation Strategy’ at the prestigious Employee Experience Awards 2023.

*Campaign Asia-Pacific’s ‘Asia’s Top 1000 Brands’

Two Studies from Milano-Bicocca and SUPSI Highlight Long-Term Consequences of Early Smartphone Use in Children

A group of researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca and SUPSI, by means of longitudinal data provided by INVALSI (Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System), has confirmed that early smartphone usage before the age of 12 does not bring benefits. Instead, it is associated with lower digital skills, higher problematic smartphone use and can, in fact, diminish the academic performance of students.

MILAN, ITALY – Newsaktuell – 29 January 2024 – The intensive and premature use of smartphones among children and pre-adolescents shows negative relationships with learning, digital skills, problematic smartphone use and active use of social media. In particular, it diminishes the academic achievements of a substantial portion of the student population. Two studies from Milano-Bicocca and SUPSI substantiates these findings using INVALSI data, also moving beyond mere correlations.

The first study, titled “The Age of the Smartphone: An Analysis of Social Predictors of Children’s Age of Access and Potential Consequences Over Time” and published in “Youth&Society”, investigates the associations between the age of access to the device and selected life outcomes in a representative sample of 3,247 Italian students in grade 10. While showing that females and students from less-educated families are more likely to receive smartphones earlier, the study finds that early smartphone access is negatively associated with adolescents’ well-functioning at the age of 16 (even controlling for a number of socio-economic variables). Deferring access also reduces the gender gap in language proficiency, digital skills and life satisfaction. The study was conducted by Tiziano Gerosa, a researcher at the University of Professional Studies of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Marco Gui, Director of the Digital Transformation and Wellbeing Lab at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Department of Sociology and Social Research) and Lucilla Losi, postdoc and research assistant at the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University.

The second study, titled “Earlier Smartphone Acquisition Negatively Impacts Language Proficiency, but Only for Heavy Media Users. Results from a Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Study” – authored by Tiziano Gerosa and Marco Gui – tested the main theoretical hypotheses regarding the role of smartphones in the learning process (both those positing benefits and those anticipating negative effects) using longitudinal data.

“This study is one of the first to delve into the impact of early smartphone use on learning levels using a more sophisticated counterfactual design and nationwide standardized tests,” says Tiziano Gerosa. “It is, in fact, a quasi-experimental study that uses longitudinal INVALSI data on children and pre-adolescents transitioning from primary to lower secondary school. This methodology allows us to approach, albeit with certain assumptions, a causal interpretation of the results.”

The research encompassed an age range of 10-14 years, comparing those who acquired the device at 10 and 11 years old, during the transition from primary to lower secondary school, to those who received it in later years, specifically at 12, 13 and 14 years old. The total sample consisted of 1,672 italian students from lower secondary schools, with administrative information collected over time by the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI).

The results do not indicate any benefits at the end of the lower secondary school for those who obtained smartphones early, even for the most academically motivated students. However, participants who built intensive media usage habits before owning a smartphone (more than two hours per day of TV and video games) experienced a significant negative impact on their Italian language learning. At the time of data collection, students with intensive screen use – and therefore subject to the potential negative effect of smartphones – comprised 23.5 percent of the Italian student population.

“These results not only confirm the existence of negative relationships between early smartphone use and life outcomes in the long-run – says Marco Gui – but also show that behind such correlations lies a direct negative impact, which becomes visible for those with a reduced ability to limit screen time due to family context or specific psychological characteristics.”

There has long been a significant debate about the impact of digital media use on the development of minors. The literature has already identified a negative relationship between early and excessive smartphone use and academic results, but often, there have been complaints about the absence of more robust scientific evidence beyond mere correlations.

Further research on this topic is ongoing at the Milano-Bicocca ‘Digital Transformation and Wellbeing Lab‘, in collaboration with the University of Brescia and local associations (Sloworking and Socialis). In particular, the EYES UP project (EarlY Exposure to Screens and Unequal Performance) aims to analyze the impact of a range of early online devices and experiences on learning levels throughout students’ academic careers, from primary to upper secondary school.

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Court Orders China Evergrande Property Developer to Liquidate After It Failed to Reach Debt Deal

Court orders China Evergrande property developer to liquidate after it failed to reach debt deal
The Evergrand Group headquarters logo is seen in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province, Firday 24 September, 2021. (Photo: AP/Ng Han Guan)

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered property developer China Evergrande Group to liquidate after it was unable to reach a restructuring deal with creditors.

3P Media Celebrates Milestone Launch as Official Sales Representative for Google Ads in Laos

3P Media Celebrates Milestone Launch as Official Sales Representative for Google Ads in Laos
3P Launch at Crowne Plaza, Vientiane Capital. (Photo: 3P Media)

3P Media, the Official Media Sales Representative for Google in Sri Lanka, Laos, and Brunei, marked their official presence in Laos with an evening filled with insightful discussions and information about the ever-evolving digital media landscape in Laos.

LOCA PAY Set to Transform Tourist Payments for Visit Laos Year 2024

LOCA PAY Set to Transform Tourist Payments for Visit Laos Year 2024
LOCA Pay. (Photo: LOCA)
As Laos prepares for the “Visit Laos Year 2024” and its prestigious ASEAN Chairmanship, LOCA, the preeminent eco-friendly ride-hailing network in the country, is poised to transform the tourist payment experience with its innovative digital payment solution, LOCA PAY.

Tour Operator Focus Asia Under Fire for Unpaid Debts to Luxury Hotels in Laos

Tour Operator Focus Asia Under Fire for Unpaid Debts to Luxury Hotels in Laos
Aerial view of The Grand Luang Prabang. (Photo: The Grand).

UPDATED on 26 January at 4:36 PM (GMT+7)

Luxury hotels and resorts in Laos, particularly in Luang Prabang Province, are raising concerns over tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid debts by Focus Asia, a prominent destination management company. Despite years of collaboration and trust-building, the company has allegedly failed to honor financial commitments made to its hospitality partners in Laos.

Man Sentenced to Death for Arson Attack at Japanese Anime Studio That Killed 36

Police officers gather outside the Kyoto District Court in Kyoto, western Japan, Thursday, 25 January 2024, ahead of the sentencing hearing for Shinji Aoba, who has confessed to a deadly arson attack in July 2019 on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio. Aoba was convicted of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out the shocking arson attack on the anime studio that killed 36 people and drew an outpouring of grief from anime fans worldwide. (Miki Matsuzaki/Kyodo News via AP)

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out a shocking arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 people.