This Week in Asia Episode 61: This is Social Media!
Starting off with congrats to Mike Foong with his 4th kid, Myra Ines Foong, the TWIA crew is back to discuss the interesting stories that dominate the Asian mobile, web & tech landscape this week. While we look back at Open Web Asia Conference & Google Dev Fest in KL, we also discussed interesting stories covering from iPads selling out in Singapore to an Asian company called Bubble Motion funded by Sequoia and how it’s kicking ass in India. If you are not impressed, then the gaffe from MOL CEO, Ganesh Kumar Bangah on his rival OffGamers’ FB page surely hits the most entertaining story of the week in Asia.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 60: Melvin Chua from HTC Singapore
As a prominent Asian brand, HTC has been producing mobile handsets with three different platforms: Windows Mobile, Android & Qualcomm’s Brew OS. What is the roadmap and what may be the new phones coming out in the next quarter? With Melvin Chua, the country manager from HTC Singapore, we discussed all these issues together with the adoption of the various mobile platforms and whether the new explosion of Android handsets have an impact in the smart-phone market.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 59: Emmanuel Allix from InMobi
As an Asian company, InMobi has made a lot of headway recently with their expansion from India to US, starting with a 2M fund for developers and a new investment series B round of 8M from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Sherpalo Ventures. Touted as an interesting independent ad-network by TechCrunch, InMobi is set to have an interesting trajectory. We have Emmanuel Allix from InMobi in Singapore to talk to us about the company, how they grow to reach 179 million consumers in over 108 countries through over 16 billion mobile ad impressions monthly in the past few years.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 58: Live from Open Web Asia SEA
It has been an exciting week for the Malaysia web/tech scene with the Open Web Asia – Southeast Asia conference happening in Kuala Lumpur on 13-14 July. The TWIA crew hosted a live show with Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch & Brian Wong (@brian_wong) formerly from Digg and now followFormation as our guests. We touched on some hot topics with great seats about InMobi’s 8M fund-raising success, the feedback about the Open Web Asia Conference and interesting start-ups which caught our eye, how Asian start-ups should improve on their pitching so to attract investors (and Asian investors should be more harsh on feedback to the entrepreneurs here) and Serkan’s interesting prediction for Asian companies in the next few decades. A special treat for all our listeners that you can view the video of the live show here.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 57: Robert & Matthew from myGengo
myGengo is a Japanese start-up which deliver value for users to order cheap and high quality translations on the web. In our virtual studio, we have both co-founders, Robert Laing (@robert_laing) & Matthew Romaine (@quanza) telling us how the idea come about, the interesting features on myGengo and also the challenges in fundraising and setting up in Japan. We also hear how they manage to get Dave McClure to be their angel investor and their journey from the far east to Silicon Valley for fundraising this year, and finally wrap up with their future plans.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 56: Attack of The Groupon Clones
Yes, Google vs China comes to a stunning conclusion with one side making a kow-tow, and the emergence of Groupon clones taking over Asia springing from China and Singapore. How will all these change the landscape of Asia? With Chew Lin taking the helm as the moderator for the first time, the TWIA crew examines the key issues which dominate Asia, with little quibbles over Microsoft’s dropping of Kin, Huawei putting Froyo onto their Chinese Android phones, Mixi making a minor Linkedin, Amazon’s acquisition of Woot and the major differences between e-commerce in Southeast Asia & East Asia.
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