Agate Studio is probably one of the few great mobile gaming startups in Indonesia that we haven’t been really able to cover yet. Agate Studio is really good at making games as well as holding events for game developers and gamers themselves. Together with Nokia they have staged Indonesia Bermain, and the Mobile Games Developer War. We got in touch with Arief Widhiyasa, the CEO of Agate Studio, to find out more. 1. What is Agate? What is the difference between you and your competitors? We are just a bunch of crazy ...
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Nokia’s Sales in China Down 40% Last Year, Only Hope Rests in WP7
The final quarter of 2011 proved to be another chapter in Nokia’s (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) horror story in China with the Finnish phone-maker reporting a drop of 40 percent in net sales compared to the same period in 2010. According to its newly-released unaudited results, the volume of devices sold in Greater China dropped 33 percent from Q4 2010 to the same quarter of 2011. It’s nothing new for Nokia, whose sales have been trending downwards in China for quite some time. The quarter-on-quarter figures are not so dramatic: sales down 19 ...
Jan 26 2012
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Nokia Launches Asha 300, Collaborates With Fellow Finns Rovio
At the Kempinski Ballroom in Jakarta yesterday, Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) launched its new addition to the Asha line with the new Asha 300, together with Angry Birds creator Rovio. Asha means 'hope' in Hindi, and this handset follows its predecessors the Asha 303, 200, and 201. With this new phone, Nokia has blurred the lines between feature phone and smartphone, with smartphone features that can be used on the cheaper mobile phones like the Asha series. The Asha 300, which is priced at just IDR 999,000 (US$ 110), boasts fast internet connections ...
Jan 11 2012
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As Small Factories Shut in Huge Numbers, Is China’s Shanzhai Industry Dying?
China’s ramshackle cottage industry of low-grade phone and gadget makers - known as shanzhai in Chinese - looks to be on the verge of extinction with one report saying that the southern city of Shenzhen has gone from hosting thousands to just twenty such shady manufacturers in the past year. It comes as consumers in the country become more aware of branding and quality, and also due to crackdowns on shoddy or pirated goods and other illegal activities in which some of these shanzhai manufacturers engage. It’s hard to define precisely ...
Jan 10 2012
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360Fashion App Knows What Chinese Women Want, Coming Soon to iPhone, Android, WP7
American model and entrepreneur Anina loves fashion, tech, mobile - and China. And that’s why the country is the focus of her 360Fashion Social news app. It comes preinstalled on all Nokia N9 (Meego OS powered) phones sold in the country and mixes curated haute couture news with deep Chinese social media integration. Indeed, the app is a sort of third-party Sina Weibo client all by itself, which helps users chat and share designer info and pictures without launching another app. In conversation via email with PO, she says that China ...
Jan 5 2012
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Nokia Reorganizes: Asia HQ Moves from Singapore to Beijing
A few days ago we reported that Nokia (HEL:NOK1V, NYSE:NOK) was bringing in Gustavo Eichelmann as its new chief executive in China, in an effort to help its operations in the country. And now the company is announcing that it is also moving its Asia headquarters from Singapore to Beijing as well. Operations at the Singapore office will continue however. A MarketWatch report quotes a Nokia representative as saying that: part of our strategy to adapt our operations to the business environment to ensure our competitiveness. This includes an ...
Jan 2 2012
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Nokia China Hopes for Better Year Under New Leader, Starting Today
Nokia China employees going back to work this week, after a short break for the new year, will find they have a new chief executive in the form of Gustavo Eichelmann (pictured right). Based in Beijing, he will have the formidable task of turning round Nokia’s (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) sinking business in China, where tens of millions of Android devices and iPhones are now dominating smartphone usage. Eichelmann has had plenty of time to prepare for the role, having been officially appointed months ago. It came after the shocking departure of Liang ...
Dec 30 2011
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China’s 10 Most Wanted Smartphones – Great News for Android, Not So Much for iPhone
Smartphone growth and usage continued to accelerate in China in 2011 - but which phones do Chinese consumers most want to buy? QQ Tech looked at the most popular product searches for such devices on all the major search engines, and compiled this top ten list. The results are awesome news for Android - which runs on seven of the ten - and offer a glimmer of hope to Nokia. But the iPhone is not the one sitting on the throne. Note that this method is better than taking a poll, ...
Dec 22 2011
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Rumor: Nokia Testing Lumia 800 for Launch in China in 2012
There’s a rumor in the Chinese media that Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) is preparing its Lumia 800 model (pictured above) to be China’s first ever Windows Phone 7 (WP7) device next summer. Apparently, the Finnish mobile giant is extensively testing its Nokia Lumia 800 in its Chinese-language localization, as well as ensuring that its other services - such as its Comes With Music thingy - will work for locals on WP7. Nokia, however, has not publicly confirmed all this. Since this move would actually require more work on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) side, especially in ...
Nov 29 2011
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Hundreds of Windows Phone 7 Apps Made at Bandung Institute of Technology
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) ‘Innovation Center’ at the Bandung Institute of Technology (MIC-ITB) has linked up with Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) and another partner to get Indonesian developers coding for the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform. And that has led to the creation of hundreds of locally-made WP7 apps that you could soon check out. The initiative was centred on the MIC-ITB Code Camp 2011 for WP7, in which Microsoft Indonesia, Navcor Nextology, and Nokia set a target of 200 mobile applications to be created by local developers. The training-oriented event, which was attended by ...
Nov 16 2011
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Nokia N9 Goes Viral, With a Handsome Cross-Dressing Chinese Actress [VIDEO]
Nokia (NYSE:NOK; HEL:NOK1V) has created a viral video marketing campaign for the launch of the Nokia N9 in China, featuring the hot starlet Fan Bing-bing cross-dressing as a man (pictured above). The social media-oriented “micro film” that Nokia commissioned for this - a suitably succinct 2 minutes and 22 seconds long - is called Unfollow, and features moody shots of the beautiful handsome Bing-bing talking about being true to oneself. The first tweet containing the poster (click to see it in full) and link went viral immediately, generating nearly 13,000 comments and ...
Nov 16 2011
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Fashionandyou Bags $40 Million From Norwest, Intel, Sequoia, Nokia
I have been hearing a lot about Fashionandyou.com from some of my friends in India. It is one of the most socially savvy e-commerce sites in the country. Today, we have heard direct from the luxury fashion e-commerce company that Smile Group Venture and Goldsquare Sales India (the owner of Fashionandyou.com) have raised US$40 million, led by Norwest Venture Partners and also participated in by Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital India, and Nokia Growth Partners. Sequoia Capital India previously invested $8 million in Goldsquare in 2010. Fashionandyou currently has 2.7 million members and growing. ...
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