This Week in Asia Episode 18: Everyone’s a Scraper

Posted by TWIA on Feb 25, 2010 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

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.

• Zynga in India: The creator of Farmville and Mafia Wars starts their global expansion with their first stop, India. Why not China?
• Indonesia looks to block offensive Internet pages and China tightens control on websites rings a new dimension of censorship in Asia.
• Facebook acquires Malaysian start-up, Octazen: We chat about the recent acquisition of Octazen, a Malaysian based start-up which specialize on contacts importer and wonders why TechCrunch offers an alternative perspective to the issue.
• Google snubs China on Android: We ponder whether Google is really walking out of China and then the gestures of them canceling the Beijing Android developers’ event.
• QQ expanding globally?: We discuss what QQ is really planning for their global expansion.
• Lastly a short reprise on Siok Siok’s Twittamentary.

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