Android Market, Google’s official app market for Android, recently celebrated the milestone of ten billion total downloads. To commemorate the achievement, they released an infographic containing a slew of statistics about Android Market and its users.
Singapore, it turns out, is the fifth most app-crazed country in the world by downloads per capita. Asian nations are doing particularly well on this front, with the South Koreans coming out on top, followed by Hong Kong and Taiwan. The United States is the only non-Asian country in the top five. Read more
NFC could soon replace your wallet. Photo: Tom Purves
Singapore may become one of the first nations in the world to see widespread adoption of near-field communication as a payment mode, if this report by Channel NewsAsia is accurate.
Up to 20,000 retail points and taxis may be NFC-enabled by middle of 2012, the result of a S$40 million (US$31 million) investment by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and seven other companies.
They are: Mobile operators M1, SingTel and StarHub, payment service providers Citibank, DBS and EZ-Link, as well as Gemalto, a digital security company. Read more
Consumers are expected to spend US$2.1 billion on digital information and entertainment products in 2011, a figure that is predicted to grow to US$2.8 billion by 2015, says a new research report by Gartner, a technology research firm.
62 percent of the US$2.1 trillion will be spent on subscription-based services like broadband packages, online gaming, cable TV, as well as mobile, video, voice, and data services. Read more
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Listen to chief protagonists in Singapore and Southeast Asia – government regulators, telecom operators, handset makers, platform providers and developers – at UNWIRED 2011 discuss the biggest issues of the day, as a new start beckons with the rollout of speedy LTE/4G networks. Read more
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country, with over 238 million people and a population growth still high at 1.9 percent, comprises of 17,508 islands and thirty three provinces. Indonesia has a mixed economy in which both the private sector and government play significant roles, with more than 160 state-owned enterprises. The country is the largest economy in Southeast Asia and is one of the emerging market economies of the world. With estimated nominal gross domestic product, as of 2010 was US$706.73 billion; with estimated nominal per capita GDP was US$3,015. Since 2010, the service sector account for the fastest growth.
Come 26th of May, iAxil and Battle Ventures will hold a talk on Business Opportunities and Market Access for Indonesia. Read more
US-based mobile ad optimiser and mobile advertising company, Smaato just closed a new round of funding with Singapore’s EDBI as its lead investor in the USD 7 million funding round. The funding enables Smaato to expand in Asia, particularly to establish presence in Singapore which is considered as one of the fastest growing mobile ad/digital advertising hub in Asia. Press release below. Read more
Back to the studio after an exciting week from Echelon 2010 and the good news that we are recently mentioned on TechCrunch. Akky Akimoto, the founder of Asiajin.com is here with us this week as our special guest. The week could not have been better without Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4 and another massive showdown between Apple & Google/Admob in mobile advertising. How do those events affect Asia? While Gree, Japan’s number 2 mobile social network is now casting its attention to US and China markets, how about Zynga who is turning their guns to India and China? If you think Google TV is really new, why not find out what has been happening between web and TV in Asia here, and finally, the Geeks on the Plane have declared Silicon Valley is just a state of mind & dying, is Asia really coming of age? You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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The growth of mobile web development comes about at a time when we are observing exponential increments in mobile web consumption. According to the 2009 Quantast Mobile Trends Report, last year saw a 110% increase in mobile web consumption in the US alone whilst worldwide growth stacks at 148% as measured by growth in pageviews. Read more
Following on our special interview series, we have Pratyush Prasanna (@pratyushp) from Xerox and also a former founder of SMS Gupshup, a well-known SMS and microblogging mobile service in India which have a total of 20M users. In our conversation with Pratyush, we chatted with him on how he started SMS Gupshup with his fellow co-founders and grew it to the state today. We also asked him on his new challenge as an open innovation manager for Xerox and get a sense of the India market on mobile applications. He will be speaking as a panelist on “Mobile Applications: The State of Play”. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Following the special interview series in conjunction with Echelon 2010, we have Benjamin Joffe, partner from CMUNE and co-founder of Plus Eight Star to speak to us about what is currently interesting for both mobile and social gaming in China. He also tells us about his current project, CMUNE where they develop games that can cross into different platforms at one go and the latest trends ongoing in China. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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