65Bits Episode 159: What will Apple ban next week?
March 11, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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TWIA Episode 19: The Thai-Malaysia-Singapore Nexus
March 5, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued with the growing numbers of Facebook users in Asia and chatted about Baidu’s new Hulu clone – Qiyi and also Plug and Play center’s entrance into Malaysia. Of course, we have Ben Scherrey sharing the story behind the Nexus Project, his thoughts on the Thai tech scene and how the entire Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) are now going to swept by a new wave of foreign investments and mentors from all over the world. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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65Bits Episode 158: Barney Song
March 3, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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TWIA Episode 18: Everyone’s a Scraper
February 27, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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The TWIA crew gathers after Chinese New Year without Daniel Cerventus to run thru a couple of stories that rumbles across the Asia landscape this week. Starting with Zynga’s global expansion into India, the crew ponders whether the foreign companies are shifting their focus away from China. Once again, censorship takes the headline in China and Indonesia. Of course, we devise the new googleometer where we ask if Google is really moving out of China with their gestures on canceling the Android event in Beijing. Finally, the biggest story that rocked Southeast Asia with Facebook acquiring Octazen, a Malaysian based company and finally the crew looks at the rise of the Global QQ and ending with a short commentary on Siok Siok’s new film, Twittamentary.
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65Bits Episode 157: MeeGo-Ring
February 27, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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TWIA Episode 17: What’s the buzz with Yahoo! & Baidu
February 18, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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The TWIA crew gathers before the Chinese New Year on Valentine’s day with our typical ramblings with Google Nexus One and Google Buzz. Following on, we continue an interesting joint venture between Baidu (China’s top search engine) and Rakuten (Japan’s top e-commerce company), and examine their implications. Then we switched gears to examine why Yahoo! is doing well in East Asia and then do a quick discussion on Wireless SG, the continuing saga between Google China and the Chinese government and Paypal’s run-in with India regulators. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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65Bits Episode 156: 3 Strikes & you are out
February 10, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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TWIA Episode 16: Open Source Rocks!
February 6, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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With Pamela Fox (@pamelafox) from Google Australia as our special guest this week, the TWIA crew tried to make sense out of the JooJoo’s new partnership with CSL Malaysia. We also reviewed the future of Naver, the top search engine in South Korea, the Malaysia government’s declaration of 95% adoption in OSS and most exciting of all, the impact of the court ruling on iiNet’s victory over the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Not to mention, we weaved Google Wave, FilmCamp SG, the #dIE6 movement and adoption of open source in governments into an exciting week of This Week in Asia. Read more
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65Bits Episode 155: How can we not talk about the iPad?
February 4, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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Tech65 Visits the GoThere.sg Office in Singapore [Video]
Daniel and DK of Tech65 visited the GoThere.sg office and interviewed two of the founders, Kian Khai and Jun Han. Read more




