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August 26, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Here are some interesting startup news from South Korea, not only in its capital, Seoul, but also other startup hubs such as Busan, Incheon, Ulsan and many more. These stories are taken from our partner, onsuccess, a website on start-ups and entrepreneurship in South Korea. Read more
August 15, 2010 by SGE
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August 3, 2010 by SGE
Yes, everyone is checking out on Smithy’s location these days. Yet, the news of the week from TenCube being acquired by McAfee to Google’s foray into China & Japan dominated the Asian landscape for web and tech. The TWIA crew starts off their chat about the future of Android in China & thoughts on the future of Southeast Asia tech scene with Daniel coining his term “Silicon Straits”. Of course, you won’t want to miss our crew’s famous discussion on “who wants to guess how much this company is acquired for”. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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July 27, 2010 by SGE
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July 24, 2010 by SGE
As a prominent Asian brand, HTC has been producing mobile handsets with three different platforms: Windows Mobile, Android & Qualcomm’s Brew OS. What is the roadmap and what may be the new phones coming out in the next quarter? With Melvin Chua, the country manager from HTC Singapore, we discussed all these issues together with the adoption of the various mobile platforms and whether the new explosion of Android handsets have an impact in the smart-phone market. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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July 10, 2010 by SGE
Yes, Google vs China comes to a stunning conclusion with one side making a kow-tow, and the emergence of Groupon clones taking over Asia springing from China and Singapore. How will all these change the landscape of Asia? With Chew Lin taking the helm as the moderator for the first time, the TWIA crew examines the key issues which dominate Asia, with little quibbles over Microsoft’s dropping of Kin, Huawei putting Froyo onto their Chinese Android phones, Mixi making a minor Linkedin, Amazon’s acquisition of Woot and the major differences between e-commerce in Southeast Asia & East Asia. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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June 12, 2010 by SGE
Coming live from Echelon 2010 on 2 June with the largest panel ever assembled and a major announcement, the TWIA crew is in full force for the 1st time with interesting threads of discussion ever pursued. With the major announcement for TWIA that DailySocial.net (Indonesia) and Mobinode.com (China) will syndicate our show in the future, we hope to extend our show to reach further shores that provide Asia with the analysis on news which rocked the web, mobile and tech space. In our distinguished panel, we have Dave McClure (@davemcclure), Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch, Mohan Belani from E27 (@mohanbelani), Gen Kanai from Mozilla Corporation (@genkanai), Rama Mamuaya from DailySocial.net (@rampok) and the full team with Chew Lin Kay (@chewlink) and Michael Smith (@dreampipe). We start with a review of Echelon 2010 with discussion on social gaming, the shift from web to mobile browser in Asia, the start-ups launch with Foound leading the way and Dave’s thoughts on how they can improve for the future. Following on, we crisscrossed through a variety of issues crossing from country to country (China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and etc.), the travel stories from Geeks on a Plane (GOAP) and take interesting questions from our audience. Finally, we wrapped up with what all our panelists wish for Echelon 2011. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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June 9, 2010 by SGE
You have definitely heard the story that Google has officially acquired AdMob, a mobile advertising company. So where are they heading after the acquisition. We sit down with Mike Kofi Okyere (@mobilemko) from Admob to talk about the direction of the company in Asia Pacific and what he will be expecting for the coming Echelon 2010 conference. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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June 7, 2010 by SGE
How is the venture incubator space emerging in China after Lee Kaifu’s departure from Google China to create Innovation Works? What is the current trends in the Chinese market and how does it differ from Singapore. Following our special interview series in conjunction with Echelon 2010, we have Chris Evdemon from Innovation Works & a business angel in Singapore on our show to discuss this issues and his expectations on Echelon 2010. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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May 31, 2010 by SGE
The TWIA crew comes together before our co-host Michael Foong taking a hiatus for 3 months due to a very special piece of good news. While we announced the great news on the growth of TWIA and our special 50th episode that comes in the form of a live show in Echelon 2010, we do not forget the tech news that dominate the Asian landscape this week. Starting from the famous CHINICT conference in China, the crew proceeds to discuss the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S where the crew praised about the screen and followed on to discuss how Asians have managed to load the new version of Android OS – Froyo into their Nexus One. Finally, we discussed the most exciting news that rocked Southeast Asia with Yahoo acquiring Indonesia start-up, Korpol and whether location based services remained a hype from US to Asia. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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