TWIA #29: This Week in Japan

For this week, the TWIA crew is joined by Serkan Toto, a special guest from Japan, who is the only Asia correspondent for TechCrunch. We diced and sliced through the news happening in Japan: (a) DeNA’s reported profits and its competition with Gree, (b) Google is now booted out of mobile search by NTT-Docomo, the largest telco in Japan with them adopting Goo, (c) the new mobile apps platform set up by various Japan handset vendors including NTT-Docomo, and finally, we have a Singapore start-up named TenCube making headway in China. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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65Bits #167: HP got a Palm

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] HP buys Palm for $1.2b, [2] Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop, [3] Microsoft says Android infringes on its patents and [4] Sony delivers floppy disk’s last rites. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more

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TWIA #28: Echelon 2010 & Social Wok

The first of the special episodes, as TWIA is a supporting media partner for Echelon 2010, we bring together two special guests, Mohan Belani the lead organizer and his team from E27 Singapore who brings together the top web-tech startups within Asia to Singapore, and Guang Ming Yong, CEO of Social Wok to talk about the upcoming conference, the story of Social Wok and their experience from Unconference 2009 to TechCrunch 50. They also discuss their own thoughts on the topic of cloud computing. Update: Ming Yong, who is originally intended to be the moderator for the panel, “Changing Enterprise 2.0: Implications of Cloud Computing, Social and Web Services”, will not be able to attend. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs.
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Barcamp Singapore 5

Barcamp Singapore 5 is open to all developers/hardware hackers/designers/social media ppl/educators/startups/non-profits/social entrepreneurs/musicians/writers/painters/sculptors. Barcamp is a festival of doing, learning, sharing of doing and sharing of learning. Barcamp is also the place where many ideas are shared, discussed and brought into reality. The event will happen on 27 March 2010 (Saturday) in Singapore Polytechnic. Of course, it is now open for registration for those who want to contribute and those who want to come, share and interact with people who are working on really interesting stuff. Note that the twitter hashtag for the event is #barcampsg5 and you can register through this link here.

TWIA Episode 17: What’s the buzz with Yahoo! & Baidu

The TWIA crew gathers before the Chinese New Year on Valentine’s day with our typical ramblings with Google Nexus One and Google Buzz. Following on, we continue an interesting joint venture between Baidu (China’s top search engine) and Rakuten (Japan’s top e-commerce company), and examine their implications. Then we switched gears to examine why Yahoo! is doing well in East Asia and then do a quick discussion on Wireless SG, the continuing saga between Google China and the Chinese government and Paypal’s run-in with India regulators. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more

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This Week in Asia Episode 1: The Answer is Always 42

From the co-founders of SGEntrepreneurs (BL) and MYEntrepreneurs (Daniel Cerventus), coupling with the talents of Mike Foong and John Lim (The Edge), a new podcast (now on iTunes) focusing on web/tech in Asia is created and will continuously update you about the latest and hot news on web and tech in Asia every week. The team will review and discuss issues and also invite pundits around Asia to tell us the context behind some interesting news in the region. As a starter, if you are a Douglas Adams fan, the answer is always 42. Check out the podcast of the first episode here:
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