Fresh off its recent rebranding, mobile advertising company InMobi is off to a strong start in 2012, today announcing that it has landed an exclusive two-year advertising deal with Indonesia’s largest online news portal, Detikcom. Readers may recall that Detikcom was acquired by Para Group last year. Detikcom sees over 25 million page views a day and has over 2.2 million users on “smart devices.” According to today’s announcement, the partnership will see InMobi bring mobile ads to Detikcom’s customers, and that includes its iOS and Android apps. Gerry Leo ...
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GudangVoucher Tackles Indonesia’s Online Payment Problems, Southeast Asia Next
Payment, Payment, Payment. That seems to be the biggest problem needing to be solved in the Indonesian e-commerce ecosystem right now. Previously we have looked at efforts by Indomog, Inapay, and UNIK, plus there’s Kaskus with its Kaspay. Now we have GudangVoucher as well. The company has been doing this kind of stuff for years; not to mention they are the only payment solution working with Facebook in Indonesia for its Facebook Credits, and one of the few merchants that is working with BCA, the country’s biggest private bank. Rather like Indomog, ...
Feb 20 2012
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Indonesia’s Toge Productions Wants to Grow Like a Bean Sprout
Toge Productions is a game developer studio in Indonesia which has produced several games such as Necronator (see trailer at the bottom) and Planetary Conflict. It has won several awards to date. We spoke with Kris Antoni Hadiputra, the co-founder and director of Toge Productions. 1. When was Toge Productions started, and how exactly was it founded? Toge Productions was founded by Sudarmin Then and Kris Antoni. We actually started as a student project team back in late 2007 when we were completing our bachelor degree in Murdoch University, ...
Feb 20 2012
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Golden Gate Ventures: $10 Million Fund for SEA Startups Launches Today
Ka-ching! Great news for entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia this Monday morning. Golden Gate Ventures, we have been told directly, is a newly set-up US$10 million venture fund focusing on startups in Southeast Asia - especially Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The fund is looking to invest in startups that are of the consumer Internet genre. You know - web, mobile, social, local, e-commerce, and what not. Golden Gate Ventures will be run by three familiar names in tech circles: Vinnie Lauria, Jeffrey Paine, and Paul Bragiel. Plus, two institutional ...
Feb 17 2012
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mig33 Eyes the Next Billion, Announces Partnership with 12 Asian Handset Brands
Exclusive --- While the growing smartphone market tends to get the most ink in recent years, its important to note that emerging markets represent an enormous opportunity for mobile companies as well. Thus far, Singapore-based mobile social network mig33 has been at the fore of capitalizing on that market, and today it solidified its claim emphatically. The company is informing us that it has signed agreements for its Android and Java mobile apps to be pre-installed on 12 Asian handset brands in India and Indonesia, which are listed below. table.tableizer-table ...
Feb 17 2012
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Tiket Hits the Right Notes in its Ticket Buying Experience [REVIEW]
Tiket, as its name implies, is a ticket booking platform for almost anything. It was soft launched back in November of last year, and has been running full steam ahead since the end of December. With hotels as its first offering, Tiket soon followed it up with movie tickets, becoming the first ticketing site to cooperate with Blitz Megaplex. Then came events, such as concerts, football matches, and even smaller local happenings. Plane tickets are in the offing. So far Tiket.com has handled more than a few huge events and has ...
Feb 16 2012
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Apps Foundry Acquires a Stake in MakeMac, the News Site for Apple Fans
With the freshly injected capital from Gobi Ventures, Apps Foundry, the startup that made the popular magazine reader SCOOP on the iPad, is making its first acquisition. Apps Foundry is taking a majority stake in Makemac.com, the biggest community website for Mac and iOS fans in Indonesia. The Makemac site is like the local equivalent of 9to5Mac or AppleInsider, focusing on the Apple world. MakeMac dubs itself as the one place for tutorials and reviews for the Mac and iPhone. The site is famous among Mac and iOS users in Indonesia ...
Feb 16 2012
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E-commerce Startups Get Investors’ Love in India, Will Indonesia Follow Suit?
It seems like e-commerce is the hot property in India right now, judging by where the money has been flowing in recent months. I’m not just talking about the big boys like Flipkart, SnapDeal or Homeshop18. The smaller players like OfferGrid, Freecharge, and Fashion and You are also getting a lot of love from the investors too. Like it or not, investors in India are pouring money into e-commerce. On Monday, IDG Ventures India put $14 million into Brainbees Solutions Pvt Ltd. Guess what they do? You guessed it: e-commerce. Brainbees ...
Feb 16 2012
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CyberAgent Ventures Launches Net Impact Conference, Aims To Help Indonesia’s Internet Ecosystem
The folks over at CyberAgent Ventures Indonesia have informed us that they will be holding Net Impact on March 7th, 9.30am to 6.00pm, at the Grand Hyatt Jakarta. The conference will cater to Indonesian entrepreneurs, and it’s the first CyberAgent Ventures’ initiative to help improve the Internet ecosystem in Indonesia. When I spoke to managing director Takahiro Suzuki recently, he did hint about the event. And from what I can understand, CyberAgent Ventures is very much taking a “build the market first and invest later” approach for Indonesia. Another CyberAgent Ventures Indonesia ...
Feb 15 2012
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UNIK: The Latest Online Payment Startup in Indonesia
You probably have heard this countless times: Online payment in Indonesia is a huge problem. There are many possible solutions, like payment through telecom operators billing, escrow services, or even having a representative merchant running around collecting cash. These methods aren’t seamless, especially to folks who are used to buying things via Paypal or credit card. It’s a pain to buy things online in Indonesia. The good news is that more and more startups (and big banks too) are coming with their own online payment solutions. One of them is UNIK. UNIK ...
Feb 14 2012
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Rovio Launches Angry Birds for Facebook in Jakarta
Rovio Entertainment held a launch event at Mal Kelapa Gading in the city of Jakarta, the Facebook capital of the world based on the number of active Facebook accounts. Rovio today finally launched Angry Birds on Facebook, topped up with special features, including social components, power-ups, and Facebook-exclusive levels. You can have a go here. With new social features for Angry Birds on Facebook, fans can compete with friends, brag around about scores and earn the coveted gold, silver, and bronze crowns. Power-ups are a big addition on Facebook. Beside the ...
Feb 14 2012
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Angry Birds Feeling Love for Asia on Valentines Day
Michael Gakuran lives in Japan working as a freelance writer and web designer. He is the founder of gakuranman.com and gakuu.com and enjoys writing about Japanese culture, language, technology and haikyo (ruins). If it’s not Cupid’s arrow hitting you this Valentine’s Day, it’s likely to be one of those infamous Angry Birds! As previously reported here on PO, Rovio has already launched Angry Birds to over 800 million Facebook users around the world on this special day. Complete with leader boards to compare scores with friends and power-up items, it looks ...
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