This Week in Asia Episode 19: The Thai-Malaysia-Singapore Nexus

By on March 4, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued [...]

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

By on February 25, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 17: What’s the buzz with Yahoo! & Baidu

By on February 11, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 16: Open Source Rocks!

By on February 4, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet With Pamela Fox (@pamelafox) from Google Australia as our special guest this week, the TWIA crew tried to make sense out of the JooJoo’s new partnership with CSL Malaysia. We also reviewed the future of Naver, the top search engine in South Korea, the Malaysia government’s declaration of 95% adoption in OSS and most [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 15: The iPad Tsunami

By on January 28, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 14: Don’t give up on China

By on January 21, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet George Codula, the co-founder of Web2Asia, joined the TWIA crew this week to tell us the other perspective behind the Great Firewall on the recent Google showdown with the Chinese government, and examined the implications on Yahoo! and consequences on Google products if they departed. The group also chatted about the new apps store [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 12: From Cracking Firewalls to Nexus One

By on January 7, 2010 in This Week in Asia

Tweet The TWIA crew starts off the new year with the story of the Great Firewall of China breaking down for a few hours and talk about the new legalized video service from Baidu starting up soon there. While Google’s new phone “Nexus One” has taken the whole world by storm, the crew examines how [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 10: A Conversation with Joi Ito, Neoteny Labs

By on December 19, 2009 in Featured, This Week in Asia

TweetAnother special episode from the crew in This Week in Asia. Following the Neoteny Conference last week on 12-13 Dec in Singapore, we manage to catch Joi Ito (Founder of the Neoteny Labs, CEO of Creative Commons, Board member of Digital Garage) for a short conversation. We discussed with Joi on the origin, purpose and [...]

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