TWIA Episode 6: The MOL & Friendster Marriage

With two major news that rocked the Southeast Asia markets this week from the acquisition of Friendster by MOL to the emergence of the JooJoo netbook, the crew is left reeling the implications of the events. We also have David Lian, who joined us as our special guest as we run through our stories in TWIA. You can check out the podcast directly from here. Read more

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Fusion Garage Strikes Back: From CrunchPad to JooJoo

The very public fallout between US-based TechCrunch and Singapore-based Fusion Garage was publicised, analysed and critiqued to no end, but was just based solely on the TechCrunch side of things. Last Monday, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch made the declaration of the end of CrunchPad and claimed that they will file a litigation against Fusion Garage. Within the tech community across the world, we were left wondering what had happened and have been waiting to hear Fusion Garage’s side of the story. The long awaited media event from Fusion Garage finally happened about an hour ago as the CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan, took the stage through a live streaming video conference and conveyed three main points: (1) the fallout with TechCrunch and reply to Mike Arrington’s claims, (2) a demo of JooJoo (it’s no longer called CrunchPad) and (3) the product specs and pricing of JooJoo. We offer a narrative account on what transpired during the live-tweeting that went along with the video conference from Chandra. Read more

This Week in Asia Episode 5: The CrunchPad Disaster

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

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RIP CrunchPad

The CrunchPad (the picture from the left sourced from TechCrunch), a product collaboration between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage has been one of the achievements hailed by many here in Singapore, giving hope that there might be something finally to go beyond Creative against Apple (where they lost the mp3 player war). However, we just received word from TechCrunch with the announcement from Michael Arrington making the declaration: “It’s a sad day at TechCrunch HQ. Hitting the publish button on this post, which makes all of this so…final…is a very hard thing to do. I’m enraged, embarrassed, and just…sad. The CrunchPad is now in the DeadPool.”. We review what has happened from the expose written by Mike Arrington Read more

Conversations with Guang Ming Yong, Co-Founder of Social Wok on TechCrunch 50

During this year’s TechCrunch 50 2009 conference in Silicon Valley, our local start-up, Socialwok made Singapore proud by becoming the winner for the Demo Pit in the event. To recap, Socialwok is an enterprise based social networking service to make organizations and companies more productive by helping them connect, share and collaborate within themselves and with the world. While the team is now busy taking the company forward to another stage, we manage to catch up with Ming Yong, the co-founder of Socialwok to sit down with us and tell us the adventures of Socialwok in TechCrunch 50 and Silicon Valley, the new developments to the Socialwok product and what’s next for this company. Read more

Interview with Lux and Kal, Founders of iTwin

iTwin is a Singaporean based start-up that made it to the presentation stage on the TechCrunch 50 conference. The founders, Lux and Kal designed and implemented a product known as iTwin that allow plug & play remote file access. So, we catch them both here to tell us their story, the product iTwin and its features and also their next steps on the product. Read more

Meet TechCrunch CTO Nik Cubrilovic – 18 Aug

Nik is in Singapore working with the Fusion Garage team on the Crunchpad and it keen on meeting local startups and entrepreneurs. Read more

CrunchNetwork Singapore Meet-up with Greg Kumparak

With a last minute arrangement, a group of us from the local community met up with Greg Kumparak, the MobileCrunch Editor from TechCrunch. He was here to visit and report about the CommunicAsia event. Of all places, he has picked Zouk, one of the famous places in Singapore (like the number 11 out of the top 50 clubs in the world – I may be wrong about this). Here is a short account on what transpired in this gathering. Read more

CrunchNetwork Singapore Meet-up Tonight at Zouk!

Yes, this is not an April Fool’s day joke. As you all heard that Greg Kumparak is in Singapore for the CommunicAsia event. He has requested for a CrunchNetwork Singapore Meetup. So through our editor Bernard Leong, we have arranged a last minute gathering at 8pm tonight in Zouk to catch up with him. This is going to be an informal gathering. So, see you all there tonight. Update: More details follow: Read more