TWIA Episode 52: Asia coming of Age?

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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TWIA #43: Rama Mamuaya from Daily Social on Koprol

This week has been a major milestone for Southeast Asia that Yahoo has acquired Indonesian based start-up, Koprol, a social networking and location based mobile service similar to FourSquare. We interviewed Rama Mamuaya from DailySocial.net as he retraced the story on how he started using the service thru a private invite from the founders to the day where they announced the acquisition. He also share with us some of the background behind Koprol with respect to users and features and how the Blackberry has driven users to Koprol in Indonesia. As Rama is attending Echelon 2010, we asked him what he expects from the upcoming conference. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs.
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TWIA #42: Back to One with Great Tidings

The TWIA crew comes together before our co-host Michael Foong taking a hiatus for 3 months due to a very special piece of good news. While we announced the great news on the growth of TWIA and our special 50th episode that comes in the form of a live show in Echelon 2010, we do not forget the tech news that dominate the Asian landscape this week. Starting from the famous CHINICT conference in China, the crew proceeds to discuss the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S where the crew praised about the screen and followed on to discuss how Asians have managed to load the new version of Android OS – Froyo into their Nexus One. Finally, we discussed the most exciting news that rocked Southeast Asia with Yahoo acquiring Indonesia start-up, Korpol and whether location based services remained a hype from US to Asia. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA #36: Daniel Raffel from Yahoo

Daniel Raffel, the senior product manager in Yahoo has an interesting background. In another point of his life, he worked as a four star chef in Thomas Keller’s NYC restaurant. Our TWIA crew, Cerventus and Chew Lin interviewed him and asked him how he has taken lessons as a professional cook and applied them to product management in Yahoo. We also asked him what he’s currently working on, and his expectations for the coming Echelon 2010 which is happening on 1st and 2nd June 2010. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA Episode 23: Don’t Play with the JooJoo

Just 3 hours before the launch of the iPhone OS 4 from Apple, the TWIA crew are back without Mike Foong and John Lim. Instead, we have two special guests tonight: Michael Smith from Yahoo Southeast Asia and Ben Scherrey from Proteus Technologies (Thailand) who come on and share with us their thoughts on the Apple iPad and the bandit iPad clone from China, the recent news about attempted suicides of workers coming from FoxConn, the company which manufacture all these devices, the Phone OS wars in Asia and the survival of JooJoo within the near future. While on these topics, we also talk about our coming live show in Barcamp KL, the Geeks on the Train, and most importantly, the Echelon 2010 happening on 1st and 2nd June. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA Episode 22: Google Domination

On our April 1st episode, our two co-hosts Mike Foong jets off to San Francisco for the iPad, and Bernard Leong isn’t on for the first time with an important discussion to attend – leaving John Lim, Daniel CerVentus, and Michael “Smitty” Smith from Yahoo! to return in our small three-man panel that isn’t short on the news. Our stories focus on Google’s exit from China, mobile platforms and development in Asia, Malaysia broadband and India’s step up recruitment. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA Episode 15: The iPad Tsunami

Michael Smith Jr, Director YDN SE Asia from Yahoo! joins the TWIA crew as our guest for the week. The discussion centered on the aftermath of the Apple iPad after months of speculation. With the Founders’ Institute coming to Singapore following after many incubators setting up shop here, the TWIA discussion group discussed the impact on tech entrepreneurship in Singapore and overall to the other countries Indonesia and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. With Maxis opening apps store in Malaysia and China’s declaration that they have nothing to do with the attacks on Google, the crew steered ahead with an exciting week in Asia. You can listen to the podcast in TWIA on SGE or go to their website. Read more

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TWIA Episode 13: The Google Showdown with China

Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development from Mozilla Corporation joins the TWIA crew as the guest to discuss the Google Showdown with the China government on unfiltered search & censorship and examine the implications of foreign companies entering into the Chinese market. The TWIA crew and Gen Kanai continue to discuss the recent Yahoo! Friendster partnership in Southeast Asia and an exciting discussion about the security of mobile banking in Korea and how that ties up with browsers, search engines and security protocols in East Asia. Read more

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65Bits Episode 130: We are back, with plugs

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Singapore first in world to sell titles via direct download at stores, [2] Microsoft in new EU browser offer [a] [b],
[3] How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’, [4] Windows Mobile becomes Windows Phone, [5] Microsoft and Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership, [6] Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user and the Byte of the week: Etherpad. Do click and check out their podcast.

65Bits Episode 110 : Yaaaahooooooooo

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Yahoo’s Search Monkey – Other APIs from Yahoo, [2] Google’s AdSense has new changes, [3] Text to get smarter in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, [4] Apple to unveil iPhone 3.0 software at March 17th event, [5] New iPod Shuffle from Apple, [6] Reference Map of Wireless@SG in Singapore, [7] Recycling Point – Recycling Electronics in Singapore, [8] Web radio services go offline and the Byte of the Week goes with two new local podcasts (i) The Shareen and Joe Show & (ii) GenY Podcast. Do click and check out their podcast.