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Eight Companies Competing for Startup Category in INAICTA 2012
Indonesia’s ICT Awards 2012 (also known as INAICTA 2012), has unveiled its latest nominees for the annual awards. This year in the startup category, there are eight that will compete for the INAICTA...
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With “Football Saga 2″ an Indonesian Gaming Studio is Supporting the National...
Agate Studio, a mobile gaming startup from Indonesia, has launched Football Saga 2 on Facebook. The sequel has a really important message for the players and for football fans in general, which is to...
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8 Indonesian-Themed Games for Independence Day
In light of today’s Indonesian 67th Independence Day, we thought it would be cool to remind Indonesians both abroad and at home how fun Indonesia really is. Here is a list of games that should make...
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Chinese Gaming Giant The9 Making Mobile Moves, Thinking More Global
Chris Shen, head of mobile at The9 Having already established itself as a powerhouse in the PC online gaming space, Chinese gaming company The9 (NASDAQ:NCTY) is now looking to change with the times...
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Tokopedia Celebrates its Third Anniversary, Reveals Some Financials
Tokopedia, one of the oldest players around in Indonesia’s e-commerce industry focusing on the C2C market, is celebrating its third year anniversary today. William Tanuwijaya, co-founder and CEO of...
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Bank of Jiangsu Sells 32,000 Users’ Information to P2P Loan Company
China’s internet users are used to data leaks by now as many Chinese websites apparently suffer from subpar security practices, but they may not be used to their information being leaked on purpose....
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Why China Has Two Internets, and What to Do About It
The folks at Tea Leaf Nation have translated a fascinating and inspring article by Shen Yin about “L” and “W”, two men who focus their businesses on two different ends of Chinese social strata. The...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [August 18, 2012]
Piracy, price wars, protests, and powerful new gadgets. You know you love reading about all those things. And there’s even more that happened this week. Here’s a platter of choice cuts from some of...
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Endangered Banyumas Dialect Gets Its Own Linux OS
The @blankonbanyumas project in Indonesia has launched its open source, Linux-based OS that’s fully localized in the Banyumas local language. It launched on Friday, aptly arriving on Indonesia’s 67th...
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13 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Another week has passed in Tech in Asia and below is the list of startups which we have covered. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us at Editors[at]techinasia[dot].com....
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8 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week’s China action was dominated by gaming, startups, and mobiles. And, as the first story shows, the country’s reputation for shameless copycatting goes on with what looks like the...
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Startup Ridefind Wants to Redefine Carpooling in the Phillipines
“A cost-effective carpooling community with a twist of fun” is how Aldrich Anderson, a co-founder of Ridefind, describes its service. Ridefind is another startup from the Philippines that wishes to...
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FindJPN: A Marketplace for Foreign Visitors to Find Activities in Tokyo
As an organizing member of Tokyo’s local tech community, I often get contacted from foreign entrepreneurs and investors who are coming to Japan. In order to help make their visit more fun I would like...
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Startup Asia Bandung: Announcing our Partners, Media, and API Providers
We announced our upcoming Startup Asia Bandung: the Multi-Platform Hackathon three weeks ago. We have been getting a great response from developers and startup companies who are interested in the...
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Upcoming Sina Weibo Redesign Looks a Lot Like Facebook Timeline Covers [PICS]
The man behind China’s hottest Twitter-like site, Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) CEO Charles Chao, said that a redesign for Sina Weibo was in the works when he recently revealed some updated financials. And the...
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Thai Tech Round-Up [20 August, 2012]
We are back with the third issue of the Thai tech round-up, courtesy of Thumbsup, this week focusing on apps and gaming. First Line app stickers from a Thai cartoonist Line is the popular,...
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Shareholders Approve: Youku and Tudou Sitting in a Tree, M-E-R-G-I-N-G
Tudou’s Gary Wang (left) and Youku’s Victor Koo, pictured today after shareholders of both companies approved the proposed merger. China’s biggest-ever tech deal was revealed back in March of this year...
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Anipang Tops the Gaming Charts in Korea, Pushed On by KakaoTalk Game Center
One Korean developer has been riding the wave of popularity of the chat app KakaoTalk in the country, which now has a Game Center, pushing its Anipang game to the top of the Google Play free game...
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HTC Loses $40M from OnLive Investment
According to PC World today, Taiwan’s HTC (TPE:2498) will lose $40 million as a result of its investment in the OnLive cloud gaming service last year. OnLive had a very rough few days, and after its...
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Indonesian Fitness Portal DuniaFitnes Has 1.3 Million Monthly Page Views
Indonesian Fitness portal DuniaFitnes.com, which in English means “Fitness World,” offers free advice, articles, videos, and a forum on fitness, nutrition, and muscle-building matters. The startup was...
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