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Forced Out of His Own Company, Sued by a State-Owned Firm, Streetdirectory...
During Startup Asia Singapura a month ago, I met Streetdirectory‘s founder, Firdhaus Akber and learned about his entrepreneurial journey. From my perspective, it was one hell of a roller coaster ride:...
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RocketLabs: Giving Online Education in Philippines a Boost
Education is a sensitive topic in the Philippines, whether it’s questions of quality, discussions on lack of funding and availability, or even just plain inquiries on the best pre-schools in your...
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China’s Baidu Just Made its First (Very Stealthy) Move into Indonesia
While we were doing our usual browsing of the web we stumbled on something very interesting: a new site by China’s Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) that’s an Indonesian version of its web links portal Hao123. Just...
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Vietnamese Nude Model Asks Google To Take Down Photos of Her Posing With A Monk
In university, I majored in history of religion and visual culture, so how can I resist writing about a story where a meditating monk took pictures with a naked woman and now she’s asking Google to...
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Beware: BSA Raids Indonesian Companies Which Run Pirated Software
I’m not sure how people in general think of Business Software Alliance (BSA), especially those living in developing countries and are cramming their computers with illegal softwares. Washington-based...
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Indonesia’s Worst Online Scams (and How to Report Them)
Today I received an SMS which claimed to be from Rocket Internet owned online shop Lazada. The SMS talks about “crazy discounts” that you can check out on a Lazada Blogspot page (gambar di atas). Ya,...
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CyberAgent Gets Into the Crowdfunding Business in Japan
Japan’s CyberAgent (TYO:4751) has burst onto Japan’s crowdfunding scene with the launch of its new CyberAgent Crowd Funding platform. Actually, it will launch fully this summer, by which time it’ll be...
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Pitching For Over a Decade Before Finally Scoring Investment: Indonesia-Based...
During my stay in Jakarta, I met Andy Sjarif, the founder of three-year-old Indonesian startup SITTI. Andy is a friendly, opinionated, and eloquent guy and is the father of two young daughters. In his...
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Work in Sync: Evernote Business Launches Across Southeast Asia
Evernote Business, the enterprise-oriented version of the note syncing and online collaboration app, has launched today across much of Southeast Asia. It’s now available for the usual price of $10 per...
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How IP Mirror’s Female Founders Attain Success With Zero Funding
Janna Lam is the founder of IP Mirror, a Singapore company which was established in 2000. After speaking with her, I’m impressed with her nonchalant attitude toward getting her hands dirty, doing the...
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Vietnam Internet Report: A Quick Look Into Internet, Bergerak, E-Commerce
eMarketer just came out with a nice new report that gives us some interesting insights into Vietnam’s internet growth. Here’s some of the most important stats from the report. Stats on the internet...
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Property Portal CommonFloor Gets $7.5 Million Funding to Expand Across India
Indian real estate portal CommonFloor has wrapped up its third major funding round, the startup revealed today. The newest injection of capital is worth $7.5 million and comes from existing investors...
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After Twitter Success, Indonesia’s President Goes Crazy for Social Media
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is famous on Twitter with his account @SBYudhoyono having more than two million followers. And now, he’s hit more social media sites by opening his own...
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Learning to Build & Learning to Sell: The 2 Concepts You Ought to Learn If...
[This article was originally published at www.BobbyOng.com. Bobby is a UCL Economics graduate and self-taught web developer. He is a keen follower of technology and is passionate about...
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91Waijiao Connects Chinese With Foreign English Teachers, Gets $4 Million...
Education site 91Waijiao is a learning platform that connects Chinese of all ages with foreign English teachers. It’s a neat idea to disrupt China’s ‘English as a foreign language’ (EFL) market, which...
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In Anticipation of Next Year’s Election, Indonesian Government Launches...
By Enricko Lukman | Tech di Asia Credit: geocurrents The Indonesian government has been embracing the internet as of late, and yesterday the General Elections Commission (KPU) put the temporary voter...
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Thais Are Even More Addicted to Social Media This Year, Research Shows
By Saiyai Sakawee | Tech di Asia With 18 million Thai users on Facebook, it makes the country the 16th biggest country in the world on Facebook. Bangkok is the city with the most Facebook users in the...
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Pitching For Over a Decade Before Finally Scoring Investment: Indonesia-Based...
During my stay in Jakarta, I met Andy Sjarif, the founder of three-year-old Indonesian startup SITTI. Andy is a friendly, opinionated, and eloquent guy and is the father of two young daughters. In his...
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Work in Sync: Evernote Business Launches Across Southeast Asia
Evernote Business, the enterprise-oriented version of the note syncing and online collaboration app, has launched today across much of Southeast Asia. It’s now available for the usual price of $10 per...
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How IP Mirror’s Female Founders Attain Success With Zero Funding
Janna Lam is the founder of IP Mirror, a Singapore company which was established in 2000. After speaking with her, I’m impressed with her nonchalant attitude toward getting her hands dirty, doing the...
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