Tweet Our TWIA producer, Mike Foong is finally back with the crew in the virtual studio after 3 months of hiatus, with also one of our highest recurring special guests, Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch in Japan to talk about the top news that rocked the web and tech landscape in Asia this week. We [...]
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This Week in Asia Episode 65: Craig White from MIH Group
Tweet We have often talked about the success of TenCent and QQ in Asia. Inside their history, MIH Group, a division of Naspers, is one of their investors and owns 38% of TenCent in China. So, we have invited Craig White, CEO of MIH Group, a division of Naspers to join us in the TWIA [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 64: Blackberry, Wine & Dine @ Smithy’s Place
Tweet The TWIA crew are brought together in Smithy’s place where all of us can have a great view of the Singapore city landscape. With wine and pizza, the crew discussed the news that dominate the Asian landscape – first with everything on Blackberry and their run-ins with the governments of Saudi Arabia and India, [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 63: The End of Friendster
Tweet The TWIA crew is back this week with a laser focus on acquisitions that are spreading across Asia, with Transfer-To and Unoh being the biggest beneficiaries, and what’s more with Temasek investing in Tudou, one of the top video sharing sites in China. Of course, we celebrated the final end of Friendster as the [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 62: O Smithy, Where art thou?
Tweet Yes, everyone is checking out on Smithy’s location these days. Yet, the news of the week from TenCube being acquired by McAfee to Google’s foray into China & Japan dominated the Asian landscape for web and tech. The TWIA crew starts off their chat about the future of Android in China & thoughts on [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 60: Melvin Chua from HTC Singapore
Tweet 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 [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 59: Emmanuel Allix from InMobi
Tweet 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 [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 58: Live from Open Web Asia SEA
Tweet 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 [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 57: Robert & Matthew from myGengo
Tweet 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 [...]
