China Digest: adSage and Miqi.cn series A funding, online pirated music crackdown, and more

September 24, 2011 by  

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

China Digest – 31 Jul

July 31, 2011 by  

Here you can find 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

China Digest – 16 Jul

July 16, 2011 by  

Here you can find 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

[Video] Asia’s Internet Kingdoms

April 19, 2011 by  

Enamoured by Facebook, YouTube, Amazon? Find out how East Asians do it differently.

This is a great video by Futures Group. Asia mobile and internet strategy consultancy firm, plus8star also contributed to the video.

Image credit: Vincent van der Pas

TWIA #65: Craig White from MIH Group

August 27, 2010 by  

TWiA-logo We have often talked about the success of TenCent and QQ in Asia. Inside their history, MIH Group, a division of Naspers, is one of their investors and owns 38% of TenCent in China. So, we have invited Craig White, CEO of MIH Group, a division of Naspers to join us in the TWIA virtual studio. Probably our most stellar guest so far, Craig shares his thoughts on the story on how MIH invested in TenCent, E-Commerce in Asia and also a bunch of companies in Southeast Asia, BuzzCity and Lelong that they have invested. Read more

TWIA Episode 21: This Week in China

March 22, 2010 by  

TWiA-logo Every big news is about China this week with Gang Lu, Founder of Mobinode coming in as our guest together with the TWIA crew to chat first about Google’s imminent departure from China and providing the perspective from the Great FireWall of China which the rest of the world missed. We also discussed the two alternative views on QZone, followed by some local stories about Facebook’s new job listing in Malaysia and mig33′s mobile chat service taking the emerging markets by storm. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more

TWIA Episode 18: Everyone’s a Scraper

February 27, 2010 by  

TWiA-logo 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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This Week in Asia Episode 5: The CrunchPad Disaster

December 4, 2009 by  

TWiA-logo The whole crew is back this week with the news that dominate the tech and web landscape this week starting with one of the major news that rocked Singapore: the end of CrunchPad as declared by Mike Arrington (TechCrunch). Of course, we also discussed the launch of FourSquare and how the web app have progressed in Malaysia and Singapore and move with the news on Tyler’s BattleStations run-in with Mashable Open Web Awards, the launch of QQ International and whether it is a prelude of QQ going global. You can check out the podcast directly from here Read more