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August 30, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Here are some interesting startup news from China, not only in its capital, Beijing, but also other startup hubs such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and many more. Read more
May 2, 2010 by SGE
The TWIA crew returns without our moderator, John Lim. In his place, our co-producer Mike Foong has taken the helm and drive the discussion on the important news that rocked Asia this week. With our guest, Chew Lin Kay (@BlinkBl_nk) from BlinkBl-nk.com and Hackerspace SG, we surveyed the happenings from Barcamp KL, BlinkBl_nk to the launch of Amazon AWS in Asia, and moved to the important news of the week: (i) Ushi.cn, a Chinese Linkedin clone after BL’s rant in the live show that there is no linkedin clone in China from the live show? (ii) Yahoo! Japan and DeNA to run social game site, Yahoo! Mobage, (iii) Japan to adopt Chinese standards for 4G, (iv) Microsoft plans to invest in Kaixin001 and finally (v) Baidu filling up the vacuum for Google China now. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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April 25, 2010 by SGE
Finally, our first live show for This Week in Asia has happened in Segi College, Kuala Lumpur. With John Lim as our moderator together with our co-hosts Bernard Leong and Daniel Cerventus and Michael Smith Jr, our highest recurring guest in the show, we talked about the journey of TWIA till today and future plans and the proceed to hit the three top news of the day: (1) Apple iPhone has taken 4.9% of the mobile market and 72% of the smart-phone market in Japan, (2) Lenovo as the sole candidate left after HTC dropped the bid for Palm and (3) the acquisition of iHipo to Potentialpark in Singapore. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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January 13, 2010 by SGE
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October 1, 2009 by Bernard Leong
If there is a potential candidate which can pose as an alternative to the Silicon Valley in California, Zhong Guan Cun in Beijing is possibly the only candidate in the present. The best benchmarks are perhaps the amount of talent, the vast market size, the successful tech companies (Baidu, Lenovo and the Founder Group) that rose from China and the amount of venture capital that has turned up in Beijing from US, for e.g. Sequoia China. While traveling to Beijing, I took a nice walk around the technology cluster under a clear blue sky during the 60th National Day Celebrations in China. Read more
February 10, 2009 by Gwendolyn Regina T
It was an honest stripped down Howie Lau and Stanley Tan we saw. Mr Lau is the General Manager and Executive Director, Lenovo ASEAN/Korea; while Mr Tan is the Chairman of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre. Both speakers were engaging, sincere and spoke freely when questions were asked. It was like a two-hour long mass mentoring session (quite a good number in the audience). Read more
January 7, 2009 by SGE
After an exciting 100th episode event, our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] ‘Curse of Silence’ exploit squelches inbound SMS/MMS to Nokia S60 devices, [2] IDA proposes shorter telco deals, [3] Meet the Ophone from Lenovo, [4]Macworld 2009 Preview, [5] CES 2009 Preview, [6] Palm to come up with a new OS, Palm Nova, [7] Sony to launch a new Netbook, the Viao P series, [8] Creative Zii and the Byte of The Week: Google Sites. Do click and check out their podcast. Also check out their new show: Gear65 Episode 2.
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