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 ...
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Feb 16 2012
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Octopost Automates and Analyzes Your Facebook Content Updates
As a Facebook page owner, one common problem you might face is content drought. You know you have to come out with content for your fans but find it hard to do so. And even if you have great content to share, you might not be there physically to post them on Facebook. Octopost, which was first launched at Social Media Week in Malaysia was created to solve these problems. It allows Facebook page owners to schedule updates and even suggest content based on certain categories. The free version allows you ...
Feb 13 2012
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Malaysia Social Media Week Set to Celebrate Online Communities
Starting today and running until February 17th, Malaysia Social Media Week 2012 is the first event of its kind. Social media is a pivotal part of our daily life today and Social Media Chambers supported by Malaysia’s Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture wants to connect people and ideas and through conversation. They believe they can get something great out of it. Program director for Social Media Chambers, Nizran Noordin (he is also co-founder of SecQme, a Startup Arena participant), tells us more about the event: 1. In your own words, ...
Feb 3 2012
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SecQMe is Watching You (in a Good Way)
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. SecQMe - pronounced as ‘secure me’ - is a Malaysia-based startup that wants to help you protect yourself. Founder and developer James Khoo pitched the app to the audience and the judges at Startup Arena. SecQMe is a mobile app for Android and iPhone that allows users to ensure others are aware of their whereabouts whenever they’re feeling unsafe. Let’s say ...
Feb 2 2012
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Piktochart Wants to Ignite the Web With Interactive Infographics
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, or for our RSS feed, click here. You might’ve noticed that we on PO love infographics, so Piktochart is something that makes sense to us. It’s essentially an easy way to make good-looking and interactive infographics out of tedious data, helping people to present info in a way that’s visually appealing and more engaging. Up on stage at our Arena this afternoon, Piktochart co-founder ...
Jan 17 2012
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For EA games, Online Payment in the Cards Thanks to MOL
MOL, Asia’s leading online payment provider for games and social networks, has announced that it has teamed up with Electronics Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) to provide prepaid game cards that can be used to buy virtual items in EA titles such as The Sims Social. The prepaid cards are now being distributed, MOL says, to 600,000 channels across Singapore, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand. They can also be redeemed for items within PlayFish games such as Pet Society, since PlayFish is a part of EA. A press release from MOL says that ...
Jan 16 2012
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Applorer Gamebox Wants to Help You Find Android Games, Brings Better Payment Options
From the Singaporean team that brought you MoVend, an in-app mobile payment platform, comes a brand-new app called Applorer Gamebox. Its creators call it a “game discovery app for Android” that’s initially aimed at Asia. Applorer has a range of free and paid games from publishers such as Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), and its premium, paid-for apps are aimed currently at consumers in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. There, mobile gamers can buy new titles from within the app using either PayPal, Cherry Credits, or MOLPoints. All that is powered by MoVend’s ...
Jan 3 2012
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Apple’s Chinese New Year Sales Go Online on Friday, in China and Across Asia
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is apparently keen to celebrate Chinese new year - more popularly known as Spring Festival here - with a “one-day Apple shopping event,” which we hope means ‘sale,’ on Friday, January 6th. As spotted by the 9to5Mac crew, this is running in the Apple online stores in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The Chinese online store (which is here), like all those others in the region, is running that promo artwork showing a dragon of colourful iPads with smart covers (pictured above). Yes, this ...
Dec 7 2011
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An Interview With The Founder of Hongkiat.com
If you’re into design, art, and/or tech, you’ve likely drawn inspiration from Hongkiat.com before. Hongkiat is a design-focused weblog based in Malaysia and is founded by non-other than Lim Hong Kiat himself. The blog is ranked highly on Alexa (above 1,800) with a Google Pagerank of five. Hong Kiat also revealed that his blog generates a whopping 6 million page views per month and is profitable just by selling ad spaces. I find his story interesting and thought it would be great to contact him to find out more about his background ...
Dec 1 2011
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LinkedIn Now in 3 New Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean
Update: We asked why LinkedIn has decided to go with Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean first. And here's the team's take: Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea represent a huge growth area in Asia and we’re tremendously excited to help millions of local professionals establish their professional identity and network. The addition of three new languages is the latest step in our strategy of making LinkedIn a more relevant experience for our growing professional member base around the world. We believe there is a lot we can learn from our local members that ...
Oct 25 2011
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Corporate Use of Social Media Across Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Burson Marsteller (BM) has just released its Asia-Pacific Corporate Social Media Study for 2011, giving insights - and infographics - that cover how companies are using social media in the region. This year's study paints a picture of brands being ever more keen to engage with consumers via social media, yet still not doing some things very effectively - such as failing to use video on social video-sharing sites, and not maintaining corporate blogs where ...
Sep 15 2011
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Groupon Malaysia Earns 3x More Monthly Revenue Than Competitor Everyday
Groupon Malaysia sure has come a long way. It first started business as Groupmore around the middle of last year and was acquired by Groupon shortly thereafter. And eight months after being reconstructed as Groupon Malaysia, the group-buy site has some success to share. Or rather, DealShelve has some news about them. DealShelve is a Malaysia-based group deal aggregator which claims that Groupon Malaysia has made more than US$1.55 million in revenue last month. Meanwhile, second place Everyday makes about $580,000, which is approximately about one-third of Groupon Malaysia’s haul. It is ...
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Feb 21, 2012
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Feb 22, 2012
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Feb 21, 2012
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