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A Final Roundup of Startups in Asia Singapore
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. This marks the...
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Bernard Leong on Internet Trends and Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Bernard Leong...
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Moscow-Based Venture Fund Ru-Net to Invest USD50m in SEA Market
I had the privilege to have a chat with Alexander Pavlov, Investment Director for Moscow-Based Venture Fund Ru-Net, on the sidelines of our Startup Asia event. We chatted about Ru-Net’s plans to...
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27 Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
Thanks to our very own Startup Arena Competition, we have a list of Asian tech startups on our radar this week, specifically from China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Philippines,...
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Mystery of the Missing Logo Solved: InMobi Rebrands
Both Vanessa and I were at Inmobi’s Singapore office recently to meet up with a couple of friends for chat. Interestingly, the new office didn’t have any logo displayed. It didn’t feel like an InMobi...
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Amazon Launches Junglee.com for Indian Market
Last summer there were reports that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) would be entering the Indian market in early 2012. This has turned out to indeed be the case, as this past week the company finally launched...
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What is Sequoia India Doing in Singapore? An Interview with Shailendra Jit Singh
Shailendra Jit Singh is the managing director of Sequoia Capital India. That’s the sort of investment firm that entrepreneurs dream about. So what is Sequoia India doing in Singapore, and in Southeast...
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Jumpsurf Provides You With Cross-Border Mobile Wifi
For frequent travelers, getting internet access can be a pain in the arse. It just takes way too much time and effort. Some hotels charge ridiculous sums for internet access and the process of getting...
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8 Search Engine Doodles for China’s Lantern Festival
Today in China is the Lantern Festival, the traditional end of the 15-day long Chinese New Year celebrations, although most people actually went back to work at the start of last week. And so many...
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Will 2012 Be a Tough Year for Chinese E-Commerce Sites?
Could this sign be appearing in the windows, er, on the homepages of e-commerce sites in China this year? 2012 is still young, especially in China, where the new year doesn’t really start until Spring...
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Tabbang: A Drag-and-Drop Facebook Tab Creator For Small Businesses
Have you ever wanted to have Twitter feeds or customized tabs on your Facebook page? With Tabbang, you now can. This India-based startup has created a suite of applications for small businesses who are...
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Apple Bans Qihoo Apps From iTunes App Store
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has apparently banned all iOS apps by the major Chinese web company Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) in a major embarrassment to the anti-virus and social media company. It is not known what...
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Sina Weibo Holds Tudou’s Hands, Youku Still on its Own For Now
Last Friday, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) announced that they will be integrating on a deeper level with Sina Weibo. From now on, Sina Weibo users who are not registered with Tudou, but wish to share their...
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Work Hard, Work Hard, Work Hard
"Work, work," says the Peon. Independent consultant and ex-Techcrunch writer, Serkan Toto, had a coffee chat with me at Startups in Asia (Singapore). It was fun and that discussion has left a deep...
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Facebook Still Looking at China as it Files for IPO
Facebook’s IPO filing this past week notes that the company is still indeed looking at China as a possible market for its popular social network, despite being currently blocked. While there have been...
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FC2 Continues to Expand Web Services to Big Markets
We’ve recently told you about Nevada-based web services company FC2, which offers what could be the top blogging service in Japan [1], as well as a popular video service which just branched out to...
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James Tong: How IDA and Gobi Ventures Help Startups Expand Into China
Last week I caught up with James Tong, a seasoned entrepreneur and venture fund partner, just before he went onstage for a discussion at our Startups in Asia event in Singapore. Knowing that he’d be...
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Shanghai Boy Imitates Mobile Game, Jumps Off Five-Story Building
Like many forms of entertainment, mobile games generally oughtn’t be imitated in real life. Flinging birds at pigs, for example, is sure to anger the folks at PETA (and yes, probably the birds too)....
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Thailand’s Ensogo Reflects on Success, Aspires to Expand in 2012
Ensogo CEO Tom Srivorakul Thailand-based daily deals site Ensogo has revealed that its 2012 goals include maintaining its roughly 90 percent market share in Thailand and expanding its user-base in...
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Qihoo Says Apple is Re-approving Its iOS Apps, Drama Over
Yesterday we noticed that all Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) apps for iPhone and iPad had been removed from Apple’s iTunes App Store, which caused a great deal of speculation online about what was going on....
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