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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Google Continues Efforts to Bring Asian Business Online in Thailand
Google Thailand’s Go Online initiative to get small and medium businesses online has far exceeded expectations, country head Ariya Banomyong told me today. The company aimed for 50,000 business to sign up in the first year, but 65,000 had done so at the end of six months in January and 40,000 business websites were live. Encouragingly, the program -– similar to Google (NASQAQ:GOOG) initiatives in India and Japan – has been extremely popular in rural areas outside the capital. Khon Khaen, in Thailand’s poorer Northeast or Isaan area, has been ...
Feb 8 2012
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Thailand’s Ensogo Reflects on Success, Aspires to Expand in 2012
Thailand-based daily deals site Ensogo has revealed that its 2012 goals include maintaining its roughly 90 percent market share in Thailand and expanding its user-base in Southeast Asia beyond 3 million people. That’s what the company’s CEO and co-founder, Tom Srivorakul, told me recently. The company plans to increase its partnerships with local vendors from 2,000 last year and work more closely with banks, mobile operators, and credit card companies to facilitate deal payment. Tom also wants to integrate hotel booking and restaurant reservation systems into the site, as hotel ...
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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3 Bangkok Locations Make Instagram’s Top 15
Photo-sharing iPhone app Instagram recently revealed the top 15 most popular places where Instagram photos were taken in 2011 and, surprisingly enough, there were three locations in Bangkok, Thailand on the list. Coming in at the number two most popular spot in the world for Instagram photos was Bangkok’s Suvarnbhumi International Airport, bested only by the world famous Disneyland in California. Number 11 and 13 were the Siam Paragon and Terminal 21 air-conditioned mega-malls, respectively. Anyone who’s been to the Thai capital may find this as no surprise perhaps. If there are ...
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 ...
Nov 21 2011
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Social Media Innovation Flourishes During Thailand Floods
Byron Perry is the founder of hyperlocal and user-generated city website Coconuts Bangkok. A wise man once said that necessity is the mother of invention, and indeed The Great Thailand Floods of 2011 have given rise to all sorts of new contraptions to deal with the life in the water – from raised tuk-tuks to water bottle doggy lifejackets. Online innovation has also flourished during the floods, as people in Thailand have turned to social media for everything from sharing information to comic relief to serious calls for help. With conflicting and confusing ...
Nov 7 2011
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Which Asian Languages are Spoken Most on Twitter? [MAP]
Thanks to Tomomi Sasaki (coincidentally of AQ, whose AQ Lift we recently featured) for the tip on this very cool Twitter language visualization from Eric Fischer. It shows all the languages being used on Twitter an a single, multi-colored world map. While Europe is probably the most colorful, we thought we’d zoom in on the Asia portion and see how it looks. As you can see, there are very dense patches for Japanese, Korean, and Indonesia. In China, where Twitter remains blocked, there are small patches of activity. Thai is ...
Oct 21 2011
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Thailand Floods Cripple Hard Drive Supply Chain, Create Shortages
Byron Perry is the founder of hyperlocal and user-generated city website Coconuts Bangkok. In the market for a new hard drive? Better buy it sooner rather than later, as a global shortage will probably jack up prices on the devices soon. That's because the once-in-a-lifetime floods that have inundated a third of Thailand and displaced nine million people are also causing major disruptions in the hard disk drive (HDD) industry supply chain. Most notable is the massive hit that the world's top HDD producer Western Digital (NYSE:WDC) took when floodwaters burst into its ...
Oct 17 2011
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This is Epic: The Most Awesome Gamer in Thailand [VIDEO]
In an arcade in Thailand, this gamer is making the first person shooter genre into a really entertaining spectator sport. He is acting as if he’s holding a real gun and mimicking the actions on the screen (see 03:25 for his saluting and mock phone-call actions). His dodges and shots are seriously awesome, very vivid and accurate too. If you catch the video in full (it's 13 minutes long!) you will witness how he survives the entire time without inserting any extra coins. Some of us, like me, can't even survive ...
Aug 23 2011
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Club 21 iPhone App Combines AR with Gorgeous Design
Club 21 has finally caved in and launched an iPhone app for the Singapore and Thailand markets. I downloaded the app and gave it a run through — It’s basically very pretty, very glamourous. Some features are helpful while some are built just for the cool factor. Like most retail-oriented mobile apps, it conveniently helps you to track down any Club 21 stores nearby. Members of Club 21 will love this app as it details all member benefits and latest promotions within the app on your mobile phone. The design and ...
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Feb 22, 2012
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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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Feb 22, 2012